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Australia & Oceania 08/13/19, 23:51

Hong Kong hospital staff Tuesday Aug. 13, stepped forward to protest against police brutality and the island territory’s government. Employees from 13 hospitals across Hong Kong participated in the protest, according to a local cable television. Workers ...

Australia & Oceania 08/08/19, 09:09

An angry KFC customer who claimed she was served raw chicken by the fast-food giant has posted pictures of her meal—and claimed her complaint was ignored for nearly a week, according to The Daily Mail. The ...

Australia & Oceania 08/07/19, 20:23

In January 2017, Brendan Lee Burton assaulted his neighbor Anita Christanga, 78, while she was in bed. As a consequence of the assault, the elderly woman suffered many severe wounds, including a broken eye socket, broken ...

Australia & Oceania 08/05/19, 20:38

U.S. Secretary of Defense Dr. Mark Esper arrived in Auckland on Monday, Aug. 5, to meet his New Zealand counterpart Defense Minister Ron Mark, after Esper attended the Australia-US Ministerial meetings in Sydney over the ...

Australia & Oceania 07/13/19, 02:56

Nearly 60 native birds died after "falling from the sky" in front of horrified onlookers in a suspected case of mass poisoning in South Australia, rescuers say. Bird rescuers said it was like “something out of ...

Australia & Oceania 06/26/19, 18:30

A self-driving shuttle bus service has taken to the roads on a route around a university district in South Australia as a part of a five-year trial. South Australia is the one of the first to ...

Central America 08/10/19, 11:11

Mexican police discovered 19 dead people, some people hanged from an overpass and others butchered and dumped on the road, in what authorities believe is a gang turf war, according to The Associated Press. In the ...

Central America 08/07/19, 00:19

The United States is ready to target any individual or country that supports Nicolás Maduro’s socialist regime. On Tuesday, speaking from Peru's capital Lima, U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton said the Trump administration will start ...

Central America 08/03/19, 15:54

Mexico's Secretary of Foreign Affairs Marcelo Ebrard announced on July 30, that the number of illegal immigrants heading to the United States from Central America has been greatly reduced. Ebrard explained that although 144,278 immigrants ...

Central America 07/25/19, 19:34

Mexico is building a huge shelter for illegal immigrants on its northern border. The facility will allow these people to await for a response to their asylum applications in the United States. In the city of ...

Central America 07/22/19, 15:54

As part of his visit to Latin America, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele met last Sunday at the Presidential House in San Salvador to discuss economic cooperation and measures ...

Central America 07/22/19, 10:30

The Costa Rican Health Ministry said it has confirmed 19 deaths from the consumption of alcohol tainted with methanol. The ministry said in a Friday report that the investigation is continuing, but it has counted 14 ...

Central America 07/12/19, 20:25

Two weeks ago, the Cuban Ministry of Finance published a new list of prices for products sold in CUC (the Cuban equivalent of the dollar) and in pesos. The inventory of prices of food and hygiene ...

Central America 07/12/19, 19:17

As a contingency plan to curb immigration, the Mexican government unveiled the first two U.S. investment projects in the south of the country. The $800 million granted for the region would be for the construction ...

Central America 07/10/19, 19:40

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador fired Mexican doctors or will not renew their contracts this December, and will import Cuban professionals. Due to the socialist president's huge health cut—44%—at least 10,000 Mexican workers in the ...

South America 07/25/19, 19:26

With a clarinet, saxophone, or violin in handcuffed hands, a group of prisoners were transported in a special armored bus to the national theater in the capital of Peru, Lima. The purpose—was for the prisoners to ...

South America 07/13/19, 19:56

Last Friday, the United States government extradited to Colombia former Agriculture Minister Andrés Felipe Arias, who is awaiting conviction in his country for embezzlement among other crimes. The Colombian Embassy in Washington received a note last ...

South America 07/13/19, 18:35

Infant mortality under Nicolás Maduro's regime in Venezuela has soared to the point that analysts are already talking about genocide.  Experts warn that the deterioration of medical and food supplies under Maduro's regime is causing conditions ...

South America 07/12/19, 20:03

The U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions Thursday on the Maduro regime in Venezuela for assassinating military Captain Rafael Acosta Arévalo. The measure will affect the Directorate General of Military Counterintelligence and will increase pressure on Maduro's ...

South America 07/12/19, 18:00

The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, revealed on Thursday, July 11, that he is nominating his son, Deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro, from lower house of the National Congress of Brazil, as Brazil's ambassador to the United ...

South America 07/11/19, 21:50

Will the Bank of Venezuela be able to operate with the "petro"? That is the question that both market agents and politicians ask themselves when faced with the last order given by socialist leader Nicolás ...

South America 07/10/19, 19:51

Admiral Craig Faller, head of the U.S. Armed Forces Southern Command, confirmed Tuesday the presence of Russian troops in Venezuela, according to Agencia EFE. "There are Russian troops and there are Russian defense contractors in Venezuela, ...

South America 07/09/19, 20:38

The U.S. government yesterday demanded that Nicolás Maduro's regime release U.S. executives detained in Venezuela. Through a statement, the spokeswoman from the State Department, Morgan Ortagus, denounced Venezuela for the six directors of Citgo being " ...

South America 07/09/19, 19:40

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit Argentina next week to participate in a summit against terrorism and pay tribute to the victims of the attack on the Israelite Argentine Mutual Association (AMIA) that ...

South America 07/08/19, 20:05

The shortage of gasoline that has paralyzed Venezuela since May has forced dozens of Venezuelan agricultural producers to reduce their area of cultivation, farmer Joandry Santiago told the New York Times. The agricultural industry is on ...

South America 07/06/19, 19:34

The northern province of Jujuy in Argentina signed a contract—for $30 million—with the Chinese technology company ZTE for a complex surveillance system that will make the streets "safer" according to Ekel Meyer, the province's security ...

South America 07/05/19, 17:34

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro once again said he would like U.S. President Donald Trump to visit South America to discuss the Venezuelan crisis with the presidents of the region. On Wednesday night, July 3, during an ...

South America 07/02/19, 15:23

Tens of thousands of tourists flocked to cities and towns across northern Chile to stake out spots in one of the world's best locations to witness Tuesday's total solar eclipse. Millions are expected to gaze at ...

South America 06/28/19, 13:05

About 1,000 guns and hundreds of explosives were seized in Argentina from an international criminal gang on Thursday, June 27. Authorities said that this is the biggest seizure of its kind in the history of ...

America 07/05/19, 21:21

A campaign of pro-life groups has been collecting donations for migrant children arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border. The initiative is called Bottles to the Border and is led by former employees of abortion clinics and pro-life ...

America 07/03/19, 20:23

Mexican authorities are investigating several reports of illegal immigrants trying to buy children to enter the United States, and obtain family unit benefits. According to testimony gathered by the Seattle Times from locals and the police, ...

America 06/28/19, 23:03

An engineer shouted for the young migrant woman to hurry up and climb aboard the freight train or she'd be left behind. In her bright red tennis shoes, she quickened her pace and was the ...

America 06/28/19, 21:28

Megan Rapinoe went from controversy to triumph, scoring twice for the United States in the much-anticipated clash with host France to send the defending champions into the semifinals of the Women's World Cup with a ...

America 06/28/19, 05:35

About 100 Mexican soldiers and immigration agents raided a freight train in the southern state of Chiapas on Thursday and detained dozens of Central American migrants riding atop the cars. Such raids had been rare since ...

America 06/26/19, 14:57

U.S. Special Representative for Venezuela Elliott Abrams assured that President Donald J. Trump supports political change in Venezuela during a briefing session on Tuesday, June 25. Abrams’s affirmative declaration came after a Washington Post article, citing ...

America 06/25/19, 02:36

Around 15,000 soldiers and National Guard policemen have been deployed by the Mexican government to the U.S. border in a bid to check migration flow from Central America, the country's defense chief told reporters on ...

America 06/21/19, 22:16

Mexico has completed its deployment of 6,000 National Guardsmen to help control the flow of migrants headed to the United States and filled 650 immigration agency posts to regulate border crossings, the government said on ...

America 06/21/19, 21:58

The deaths of eight American tourists in the Dominican Republic this year are not part of a mysterious wave of fatalities but a medically and statistically normal phenomenon that has been lumped together by the ...

America 06/21/19, 00:55

íMexico and El Salvador signed a cooperation agreement Thursday that includes a $30 million Mexican donation for reforestation in the Central American nation, amid increased pressure from the United States to slow a surge of ...

Trending 06/18/19, 18:26

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced Monday, June 17, that it is ready to send women to the moon—50 years after the first Apollo mission! The new space mission is aptly named Artemis, after ...

America 06/17/19, 21:18

The huge blackout that left tens of millions of people in the dark in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay over the weekend raised serious questions about the vulnerability of the power grid in South America and ...

America 06/17/19, 02:27

Mexican authorities increased immigration enforcement along well-traveled routes for migrants in southern Mexico over the weekend, checking identifications, pulling migrants off public transport and intercepting four trucks packed with nearly 800 migrants. The National Migration Institute ...

America 06/16/19, 20:47

A massive blackout left tens of millions of people without electricity in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay on Sunday after an unexplained failure in the neighboring countries' interconnected power grid. Authorities were working frantically to restore ...

America 06/12/19, 15:58

A Netherlands seed developer is the 2019 winner of the World Food Prize for pioneering high quality and disease-resistant vegetable seeds. The Dutch seed man has already introduced the hybrid seeds to over 60 countries, including ...

America 06/11/19, 13:45

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Monday, June 10, that Canada is planning to ban single-use plastics by 2021 in an attempt to curb plastic pollution. “I'm very happy to announce that as early as ...

America 06/08/19, 20:08

Thousands of people crossed into Colombia on Saturday to buy food and medicine after Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro reopened a border between the countries that had been shut down for the past four months. Long lines ...

America 06/07/19, 01:11

Mexico's president said Thursday he will hold a "unity" rally on the border in Tijuana two days before the U.S. is set to impose tariffs on all Mexican imports. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that ...

America 06/06/19, 00:49

Some 200 military police, immigration agents and federal police blocked the advance of about 1,000 Central American migrants who were walking north along a southern Mexico highway on Wednesday, once again showing a tougher new ...

America 05/31/19, 04:17

At first they appeared only as weary silhouettes emerging from the dense foliage on the other side of the Tuquesa River. Three women, one leaning on a stick for support, and two others carrying their few ...

Europe 08/23/19, 10:31

A 93-year-old British woman died Wednesday, Aug. 21, from Takotsubo Syndrome—broken heart syndrome—just months after three men broke into her home and stole her valuables. According to a post of Northamptonshire Police on Facebook, Betty Munroe's ...

Europe 08/21/19, 20:11

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addressed leaders at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on August 20,  urging for greater collaboration and “fresh thinking to solve old problems” in the Middle East. During a news ...

Europe 08/21/19, 14:06

German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced Tuesday that she plans to fulfill the commitment she made in Berlin with NATO allies to increase the country's defense budget amid strong criticism from the U.S. government. At the last ...

Europe 08/13/19, 21:46

After being fired from Tesco where he had been working for 17 years, a dedicated checkout employee took his own life. Shaun Winstanley, 49, was discovered dead just days after being told that despite appealing against ...

Europe 08/11/19, 16:56

A near majority of Britons would leave the EU on time, even without a deal, over delaying or cancelling Brexit. The poll by Opinium published on Saturday, Aug. 10, revealed that a no-deal Brexit had a ...

Europe 08/10/19, 15:55

Prior to President Donald Trump's trip to Europe, U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell on Friday, aug. 9, criticized German Chancellor Angela Merkel for her reduced efforts to allocate 2% of its gross domestic product ...

Europe 08/08/19, 20:15

After three people were pulled from the ocean off Clacton, a teenager died. In Marine Parade West on Aug. 8, three air ambulances were called to the scene. Three people were recovered from the water and treated ...

Europe 08/06/19, 20:05

U.S. Defense Secretary Dr. Mark Esper on Tuesday, Aug. 6 commented on North Korea’s rocket test launch and the Turkish-Syrian crisis. Esper said the United States is monitoring North Korea's recent missile activity and keeping the ...

Europe 08/06/19, 11:01

A horrifying incident took place at the famed Tate Modern Art Gallery in London on Monday, Aug. 5, in which a 6-year-old boy was allegedly pushed by a 17-year-old boy from a 10th-floor balcony and ...

Europe 08/01/19, 00:46

President Donald J. Trump will visit Poland’s capital Warsaw from Aug. 31 to Sept. 2 to partake in ceremonies marking the 80th anniversary of World War II, aides to Poland's president said on Tuesday, July ...

Europe 07/29/19, 18:15

Days after Boris Johnson took office as British prime minister, the U.S. government announced that they are working to conclude a "very substantial" trade agreement that could be implemented after the United Kingdom withdraws from ...

Europe 07/28/19, 01:24

This heartbreaking yet beautiful story will give you a handful of sweetness today as a widow in England "died of a broken heart" four days after her husband of 68 years passed away. The love story ...

Europe 07/25/19, 11:50

U.S. President Donald Trump said he's "very, very happy,' that Boris Johnson is the new prime minister of the United Kingdom. Trump spoke on the White House South Lawn as he left for a fundraiser ...

Europe 07/23/19, 12:18

Boris Johnson will become Britain’s next prime minister after being elected leader of the Conservative party, beating Jeremy Hunt in the party’s leadership contest. Boris Johnson replaces Theresa May, who announced her resignation last month, and ...

Europe 07/19/19, 10:11

President Donald Trump on Thursday, July 18, welcomed the Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte to the White House, where the president accepted an incredible gift. “Today, on behalf of the American people, I will ...

Europe 07/18/19, 01:56

A "bullied" 14-year-old schoolboy died on Monday afternoon after laying down on the tracks and was killed by a train. Sam Connor, a student of Salesian School in the UK was reportedly being bully at school ...

Europe 07/17/19, 23:51

A father in the UK has been sentenced to nine years after being accused of shaking his 15-month-old son to death. The tragedy occurred on December 7, 2016 at a home in Beaufort, Ebbw Vale, Wales ...

Europe 07/03/19, 19:14

This story of a UK's baby died days after premature birth, whose mother had been stabbed to death will shatter your heart. The tragic episode occurred at a home in Croydon, south London, UK when Kelly ...

Europe 07/03/19, 09:45

An airstrike hit a detention center for migrants in the Libyan capital early Wednesday, July 3, killing at least 44 people and wounding more than 130, the U.N. mission to the war-torn country said. The airstrike ...

Europe 07/03/19, 08:30

Iran's president Rouhani warned European partners in its faltering nuclear deal on Wednesday that Tehran will increase its enrichment of uranium to "any amount that we want" beginning on Sunday, putting pressure on them to ...

News 05/30/19, 22:55

Over 1,200 people have died in the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Congo). According to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), also known as Doctors Without Border, this is the worst ever reported ...

Africa 05/30/19, 09:24

Sudan's protesters are threatening a civil disobedience campaign if the ruling military refuses to hand over power to civilians.The threat comes after a two-day strike meant to pressure the military showed no tangible effects.The coalition ...

Africa 05/30/19, 08:55

Mozambique says it needs $3.2 billion to recover from a pair of powerful tropical cyclones that ripped into the southern African nation earlier this year and left hundreds dead, raising alarm about the effects of ...

Africa 05/30/19, 01:42

The fate of several teams vying for places in the Super Rugby playoffs is likely to be sealed in this weekend's 16th round.If the Chiefs can't beat the Crusaders in Fiji, if the Waratahs can't ...

Africa 05/29/19, 18:35

Farmers in Kenya are swapping high-risk crops for silkworms. In a bid to find a profitable crop to sustain their livelihoods, many farmers are turning to silk production and ditching traditional cash crops such as ...

Africa 05/29/19, 16:36

Yasir Arman says he wants to help resolve the ongoing standoff on who should lead Sudan's transitional government

Africa 05/29/19, 15:15

WHO officials say success hinges on improving security in Congo's conflict zones

Africa 05/29/19, 12:14

A prominent Egyptian militant wanted for scores of terror attacks in his country was handed over by Libyan forces loyal to a commander pushing to take the capital of Tripoli and flown back to Egypt ...

Africa 05/29/19, 12:08

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari began his second term as head of Africa's most populous nation on Wednesday, facing heightened pressure to defeat Islamic extremism and boost the oil-dependent economy amid concerns over his health.The 76-year-old ...

Africa 05/28/19, 15:55

Report alleges that security forces, who have been conducting military operations against Islamist insurgents in region, have engaged in unlawful action against civilians

Africa 05/28/19, 14:56

Malawi's President Peter Mutharika on Tuesday called for unity as he was sworn in for a second five-year term after an election in which top opposition parties alleged irregularities.The 78-year-old Mutharika began his acceptance speech ...

Africa 05/28/19, 08:39

Sudan's protest leaders have launched a two-day general strike to press the ruling military to hand over power to a civilian-led authority.Wajdi Saleh, a negotiator for the protesters, says they resorted to holding the strike ...

Africa 05/28/19, 08:13

Government says it has embarked on a safe mining campaign targeting small-scale miners

Africa 05/28/19, 02:00

Ghana cracked down on illegal small-scale gold mining in 2017 but banned small-scale operations continue despite digital monitoring and land reclamation

Africa 05/28/19, 00:51

Meeting in Nairobi, some 3,000 delegates of the first UN Habitat Assembly will focus on sustainable planning

Africa 05/28/19, 00:21

Somali officer who was a hero in the community died along with her husband on duty, leaving 10 children, including a 22-day-old baby

Africa 05/27/19, 17:53

Malawi's President Peter Mutharika has narrowly won re-election with 38% of the votes in last week's polls, the electoral commission declared Monday.Mutharika's victory was announced in Blantyre, Malawi's largest city, immediately after the High Court ...

Africa 05/27/19, 16:47

Heavy clashes have been slowly nearing the center of Libya's capital, Tripoli, as forces loyal to the military commander Khalifa Hifter battle to seize power, an official and residents said Monday.Hifter opened a military offensive ...

Africa 05/27/19, 13:44

As students in Cameroon began their annual exams Monday, hundreds of their teachers in English-speaking regions were on the streets protesting. The teachers are demanding better security after three t

Africa 05/27/19, 12:20

A growing number of Kenyan farmers are turning to silk production, in a move away from traditional cash crops such as coffee, maize, sugarcane and cotton.The rearing of silkworms is seen as less affected by ...

Asia & Pacific 08/16/19, 14:06

Democratic congresswoman Rashida Tlaib says she won’t visit her relatives in the West Bank after Israel issued a permit on humanitarian grounds, citing “oppressive conditions meant to humiliate me.” On Thursday, Israel had decided to ban ...

Asia & Pacific 08/15/19, 21:44

The Hong Kong government on Thursday, Aug. 15, released top pro-democracy leader Benny Tai to pacify the on-going protests that led to hundreds of arrests and temporarily closed down the island’s international airport. Vice President of ...

U.S. 08/15/19, 15:58

The new survey by the Pew Research Center showed that in the United States, unfavorable opinions about the Chinese regime increased by 13% compared to last year, reaching 60% in the middle of the trade ...

Asia & Pacific 08/15/19, 15:10

President Donald Trump suggested a solution on Thursday morning to China's leader Xi Jinping for the escalating situation in Hong Kong. "If President Xi would meet directly and personally with the protesters, there would be a ...

Asia & Pacific 08/15/19, 09:20

China has denied requests for two U.S. Navy ships to visit Hong Kong despite successful port visits in the past, the U.S. Pacific Fleet confirmed on Wednesday, Aug. 14. The USS Green Bay was scheduled for ...

Asia & Pacific 08/14/19, 23:36

News Analysis As reported by The Guardian and Fox News, aerial photos taken just outside of Hong Kong, in the province of Shenzhen, show a buildup of military personnel carriers being stored inside a soccer stadium, ...

Asia & Pacific 08/14/19, 22:45

Chinese state-controlled media released footage displaying armored carriers and other vehicles from the People's Armed Police of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) traveling toward the Hong Kong border. The footage provided by state-owned Chinese tabloid newspaper, ...

Asia & Pacific 08/14/19, 00:10

A young driver, named locally only as Akash, is alleged to have pushed into a river the brand new BMW car he got from his parents for his 22nd birthday. Akash, a 22-year-old resident of a Yamunanagar ...

Asia & Pacific 08/12/19, 19:53

Chinese artist and social activist Ai Weiwei Monday said the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) crackdown on demonstrations in Hong Kong is becoming more brutal. He expressed his concerns that the West is not stepping forward to ...

Asia & Pacific 08/11/19, 12:00

Thousands of pro-democracy protesters hit the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday, Aug. 11, in a continuing series of demonstrations that have generally started peacefully but often ended in violent clashes with police. Activists calling for ...

Asia & Pacific 08/10/19, 14:58

President Donald Trump said on Saturday morning, Aug. 10, that he plans to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un "in the not too distant future," hinting at a third possible summit between the ...

U.S. 08/09/19, 20:09

U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper arrived in South Korea Thursday for his two-day trip to Seoul. On Friday Esper met South Korean counterpart Jeong Kyeong-doo for talks on the military alliance between the two countries. The ...

U.S. 08/09/19, 15:21

State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus on Thursday, described China as a "thuggish regime" for revealing the photographs and personal details of a U.S. diplomat who met with prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activists, according to Reuters. Ortagus ...

U.S. 08/08/19, 19:16

U.S. Defense Secretary Dr. Mark Esper visited Mongolia for talks with the Mongolian Defense Minister Nyamaagiin Enkhbold. The Pentagon chief received a horse as a gift from the Mongolian defense chief during a ceremony. Esper named the ...

Asia & Pacific 08/07/19, 21:38

Yes, you're reading it right. North Korea recently has released stamps featuring U.S. President Donald Trump with Kim Jong Un. According to Kyodo News, a set of stamps commemorating the anniversary of the leaders’ Singapore summit was ...

U.S. 08/07/19, 15:06

U.S. Defense Secretary Dr. Mark Esper met his Japanese counterpart, Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya, in Tokyo on Wednesday morning. This is Esper’s first trip to Japan since taking on the position last month. The two leaders expected ...

Asia & Pacific 08/06/19, 01:21

Since early June, pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong have been staging a series of protests. It started with the call to stop the controversial extradition bill from being passed to inquiry into police brutality and ...

Politics 08/03/19, 13:34

President Trump on Friday, aug. 2, made a series of tweets downplaying North Korea's recent missile tests. "Kim Jong Un and North Korea tested 3 short range missiles over the last number of days. These missiles ...

U.S. 08/02/19, 22:15

Foreign ministers from 10 countries of the Association of Southeast Nations (ASEAN) and their key dialogue and strategic partners met in Bangkok on Friday for the 9th East Asia Summit (EAS) Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, which ...

Asia & Pacific 08/01/19, 22:47

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen on Thursday, Aug. 1, condemned the Chinese communist regime for banning individual mainland Chinese citizens from visiting Taiwan. "I want to tell the Beijing authorities that China using tourism as a political ...

U.S. 08/09/19, 21:31

President Donald Trump spoke to White House reporters on Friday before leaving for his annual August vacation at his lush New Jersey golf club. Despite being tested on different fronts, the president was optimistic, indicating he ...

World 08/09/19, 19:26

President Donald Trump on Friday said he was not ready to make a trade deal with China, and a planned September talk between White House officials and Beijing could be called off. “We are talking to ...

World 08/07/19, 18:11

The Chinese communist regime has warned demonstrators in Hong Kong that they will be "punished" for the demonstrations that have been going on in the region for two months. "As for their punishment, it’s only a ...

U.S. 08/07/19, 01:07

With the tendency of the legacy media to ignore that farming even more so than any other capitalistic endeavor always involves risk as well as gain depending on the market, years of socialism in America ...

World 08/06/19, 19:54

The communist regime in Beijing is buying Iranian oil in clear defiance of the sanctions imposed by the United States on the Ayatollah regime. Several vessel tracking services analysed by The New  York Times have revealed ...

U.S. 08/02/19, 11:30

China has threatened to make retaliatory measures after President Donald Trump pledged to place additional tariffs on Chinese imports, saying Beijing has not bought a large volume of farm product from the United States and ...

Asia & Pacific 08/01/19, 21:38

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday tackled several of the country's most critical foreign policy concerns in the Asia-Pacific region at the 52nd Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers' Meeting (AMM) ...

U.S. 07/31/19, 22:18

U.S. and Chinese officials on Wednesday, July 31, began a 12th round of trade talks at the Xijiao State Guesthouse in Shanghai, China. U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer met with ...

U.S. 07/31/19, 00:28

President Donald J. Trump on Tuesday commented on the soaring U.S. economy and at the same time spoke in a forceful and direct manner about the current Shanghai trade talks. “We are either going to ...

U.S. 07/30/19, 20:44

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer arrived in Shanghai, China, for the next round of trade talks. Vehicles believed to be from the U.S. Consulate in Shanghai transporting Mnuchin and Lighthizer ...

World 07/25/19, 12:06

The Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) released a statement on July 20, 2019, urging the Communist Party of China to halt its ongoing persecution of Falun Gong. “For the past twenty years, Falun Gong practitioners have ...

U.S. 07/24/19, 23:31

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer are heading for China early next week for talks intended to resolve the trade impasse between Washington and Beijing. Mnuchin told White House reporters that they ...

World 07/23/19, 23:37

Li Peng, the former Premier of China, known for declaring martial law and calling in China’s military to suppress pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square in 1989, has died at age 90. The Tiananmen Square massacre of ...

World 07/05/19, 20:27

All tariffs imposed on Chinese goods must be eliminated if Washington wants a trade deal to be made with Beijing, China’s Ministry of Commerce said, as the two countries are preparing to restart their trade ...

World 07/04/19, 21:41

An independent tribunal in the UK recently attracted widespread news coverage after announcing a judgment that the Chinese Communist regime is killing its detained citizens for organs. A 60-page summary of the judgment was released on ...

Asia & Pacific 07/02/19, 17:43

Tens of thousands of Hong Kong people gathered on Monday afternoon for the annual July 1 march that is held on the anniversary of Britain's return of Hong Kong to China in 1997. This year’s ...

Asia & Pacific 07/26/19, 18:58

If you were a visitor arriving on Friday at the Hong Kong Chek Lap Kok International Airport, this would be the scene, you saw on your first steps on to ‘Asia’s world city.’ A sea of ...

Asia & Pacific 07/19/19, 19:49

Hong Kong young activists are no greenhorns when it comes to protests. As another huge rally is organized for Sunday, protesters’ strategies are getting more creative. From hand signs to colorful post-it notes, these young activists ...

Trending 06/27/19, 16:17

Thousands of residents participated in Hong Kong’s rally on Wednesday night, June 26, to oppose the proposed extradition bill that they fear will take away the city’s freedom. They were rallying to appeal to world leaders ...

Europe 06/25/19, 18:26

Speaking at a meeting in Geneva on Monday, June 24, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet emphasized human rights violations in several regions of the world. Bachelet expressed disappointment at Saudi Arabia's ...

World 06/24/19, 21:33

There are 25 million adults and children suffering from labor and sex trafficking all over the world, including in the United States, according to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The U.S. Department of State (DOS) released ...

Trending 06/20/19, 14:56

Dozens of Filipinos held a rally near the Presidential Palace in Manila on Wednesday, June 19, to condemn a statement Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte made on Monday. The protesters are angry because President Rodrigo Duterte described ...

Asia & Pacific 06/19/19, 19:38

An activist for pro-democracy group Demosisto and a leading figure in Hong Kong's 2014 Umbrella Movement demonstrations, Joshua Wong was released from prison. Wong urged Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam to withdraw the extradition amendment ...

World 06/18/19, 02:05

A panel of experts and lawyers from the China Tribunal in London has concluded that China has in fact been murdering Falun Gong practitioners and harvesting their organs for transplant. The tribunal said on June ...

Politics 06/17/19, 15:19

Hong Kong’s former Chief Secretary Anson Chan said on Friday, June 14, that the territory's current government should drop the proposed extradition bill that has triggered massive weeklong protests. Chan said this past week’s protests involving ...

Politics 06/14/19, 17:41

A group of nine pro-democratic lawmakers condemned the Hong Kong government for describing Wednesday's mass protest on the island nation as a riot. The legislators were specifically referring to comments made by Hong Kong Special Administrative ...

Europe 06/12/19, 17:22

The Russian Interior Affairs Ministry has, under public pressure, dropped drug-dealing charges against a prominent investigative journalist, in a sudden turn of events. Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev surprised the nation and the world on Tuesday after ...

World 06/12/19, 14:38

The New York Post carried an article on June 1, 2019, titled “Chinese dissidents are being executed for their organs, former hospital worker says.” The article was written by Steven W. Mosher, the president of the Population Research ...

Europe 06/10/19, 17:31

A prominent Russian investigative journalist was arrested and allegedly beaten while in detention. Ivan Golunov, who works for the independent Latvia-based Meduza online news agency, was charged with drug dealing. Four grams of synthetic stimulant mephedrone ...

World 06/03/19, 21:42

November 1989 marked the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, when thousands of Germans brought down the Berlin Wall—the most visible symbol of the Cold War, built by communists to separate East and West Berlin. The ...

World 06/03/19, 15:56

June 4, 2019, marks the 30th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Former Associated Press (AP) journalist Jeff Widener, who was present at the scene to cover the story, recollects his experience of the ...

Asia & Pacific 06/03/19, 14:19

Thirty years have passed since the June 4 Tiananmen Square protests. Former Chinese pro-democracy activists speak about how the 1989 student-led demonstrations in Beijing have left a lasting impact on their lives. Lawyer and former student ...

World 05/31/19, 23:13

A 73-year-old woman who was sentenced to two years in March 2019 for practicing Falun Gong was denied admission by Shandong Province Women's Prison after she failed the required physical exam. The authorities hired two ...

World 05/13/19, 01:29

Falun Gong (also called Falun Dafa) practitioners from Canada and supportive lawmakers celebrated the 27th annual World Falun Dafa Day in front of Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday. The attendees condemned the persecution of ...

America 05/09/19, 02:58

S-240, a bill that targets human organ trafficking, was unanimously passed on the evening of April 30 in the Canadian House of Commons. It was introduced by the Senate and was already approved by the ...

World 05/02/19, 15:37

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) called out China as one of the world’s most egregious persecutors of religious faiths in its 2019 annual report released on April 29. The report also states ...