On August 25, Niger’s new military leadership proclaimed France’s ambassador to Niger, Sylvain Itté, as persona non grata and gave the diplomat 48 hours to depart Niger, based on international...
On August 24, Chinese President Xi Jinping declared that China is prepared to increase cooperation with Iran on BRICS (the economic bloc currently made up of Brazil, Russia, India,...
The five BRICS countries — Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa — have officially invited six other countries, such as geopolitical competitors Iran and Saudi Arabia, to join...
Recently, Milan Uhrík, the leader of the eurosceptic party Republika, announced that his party wants to hold a referendum on leaving NATO in the next four years, according to...
SINGAPORE — Türkiye is deciding how it can contribute to restoring democratic order in Niger, where a military junta seized power in July this year, Turkish President Recep Tayyip...
SINGAPORE — On August 21, the Central American Parliament (Parlacen) voted to expel Taiwan as a permanent observer — a position it had held for more than two decades...
The Financial Times reports that China had planned to lobby for the BRICS bloc to become a full-fledged competitor of the G7 during this year’s BRICS summit in South....
The Chinese Foreign Ministry asserted that the U.S. Department of Defense controls 336 biolaboratories in 30 countries around the world. ...
Russian authorities have authenticated reports that a private jet with Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin mentioned as a passenger crashed between Moscow and St. Petersburg on Wednesday, August 23,...
On August 19, China conducted air and sea military exercises around Taiwan to issue a “stern warning” to “separatist forces” on the island, after Taiwan’s Vice President William Lai’s...
Although the proposal already has the required co-sponsorships to proceed to a vote, some Ukrainians are unhappy about the move, concerned about the cultural effects. ...
On August 18, U.S. President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, and South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol made various pledges in a milestone Camp David gathering, including a...
On August 17, American journalist Seymour Hersh claimed that the CIA had cautioned U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken that Ukraine’s current counteroffensive against Russian forces would fail, and...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed laws to extend a nationwide mobilization and martial law for three months until November 15, Verkhovna Rada lawmaker Yaroslav Zheleznyak announced on August...
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland’s visit in post-coup Niger has incensed Washington’s NATO ally France, according to a weekend report by French news outlet Le Figaro, quoting...
Russia’s central bank made a big interest-rate hike Tuesday, an emergency move meant to tackle inflation and boost the value of the ruble after the country’s currency hit a...
The country recently passed a law outlawing acts of sodomy and homosexual rape of children and the vulnerable. ...
Singaporean Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong cautioned against the possibility of disaster for the global economy with implications way beyond the United States and China, criticizing America for trying...
The New Development Bank (NDB) established by the BRICS group of major emerging countries needs to ramp up local currency fundraising and lending in wake of Western sanctions against...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has fired all of the regional military officials in charge of the country’s conscription campaign after a series of corruption scandals. Those officials who did...
