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A British girl found a haunting surprise when she opened a package of Christmas cards, coming across a note written by a Chinese “prisoner” who claimed they were forced into stuffing the cards as part of an alleged slave labor program. As the New York Post reported, 6-year-old Florence Widdicombe found the note after her […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un could be gearing up his military to conduct a long-range missile test in the coming days or weeks, on the heels of a cryptic message earlier this month from the country in which it stated that America will be receiving an unknown “gift.” According to CNBC, the veiled threat […]

The Chinese ambassador to Germany, Wu Ken, claimed that the Teutonic nation would face severe retaliation if its government banned Huawei as a supplier of 5G wireless equipment, according to Bloomberg. Ambassador Wu specifically pointed out that the Chinese market was an important one for German car manufacturers. “If Germany were to take a decision […]

Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the United Kingdom’s Labour Party, announced early Friday that he would resign from his post after suffering a crushing, landslide defeat to the Conservative party led by current Prime Minister Boris Johnson, The New York Times reported. Exit polling released after voting closed at 10 p.m. local time in the […]

The Nobel academy came under fire on Tuesday for their decision to award their prestigious prize for literature to Peter Handke, who has been a subject of criticism over his stance on the wars in former Yugoslavia and on late Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic. Three countries are boycotting the ceremony, with Turkey joining Albania and […]

Black Friday is becoming popular outside of the United States, but not everyone is supportive of it, The Associated Press reports. Until a few years ago, the Friday after Thanksgiving was — outside of the U.S. anyway — just another Friday, much like the day before it was just another Thursday. After all, Thanksgiving is […]

While tensions with Iran between the United States and Saudi Arabia remain high, the issue seemingly took a backseat to the controversy over President Donald Trump’s July phone call with the Ukrainian president that sparked an official impeachment inquiry by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. According to The Hill, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman reminded […]

The United Kingdom’s Brexit Secretary, Stephen Barclay, recently met in Brussels with Michel Barnier — a chief negotiator of the European Union — to move forward the terms of the U.K.’s exit of the EU, The BBC reported on Friday. Barclay said that things were “moving forward with momentum.” Barnier described the appointment as “a […]

Italian police announced that they have helped “smash” the largest pirate television streaming service in the world. The illegal service — known as Xtream Codes — had over 5 million paying customers in Italy alone, Italian news outlet The Local reported earlier today. Police officials coordinated their efforts internationally, teaming up with authorities from the […]

Human rights group Amnesty International has accused Hong Kong’s police force of “unnecessary and excessive force” towards detained protesters in what it says amounts to “torture,” Bloomberg Quint reported. With riots raging over the influence of China on the now-independent ex-British colony, concerns are mounting that the news could pour additional fuel the civil unrest […]

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who just assumed the role in July, has refused to budge on his plan to take the U.K. out of the European Union on October 31, even if no deal can be reached to maintain trade relations between the U.K. and E.U. But Johnson’s inflexibility on his “no deal Brexit” […]

President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro signed a decree to ban setting fires to clear land that will have a duration of 60 days in response to the high number of fires blazing through the Amazon rainforest, reported BBC. The ban has been met with mixed responses, with some believing that it will have zero effect […]

The city of Amsterdam in The Netherlands has bold plans to ban all diesel and gasoline vehicles by 2030. They will spend the remaining years between now and then building the infrastructure to support a city of electric cars, reported CNN. The city plans to begin by slowly transitioning from diesel and gasoline-powered vehicles to […]

Brazil’s president said Tuesday that the South American nation will not accept $20 million in aid to fight raging wildfires in the Amazon rainforest until French President Emmanuel Macron withdraws his “insults,” Reuters reports. Devastating fires have been burning in the Amazon for weeks now, creating an environmental emergency that has gotten international attention. Though […]

President Donald Trump suggested Sunday that he is open to inviting Russian President Vladimir Putin to next year’s Group of Seven (G-7) summit, The Hill reports. Russia was removed from the international intergovernmental economic organization in 2014 after its unlawful annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, and other members have long objected to inviting the country […]

Even as thousands gathered in Moscow to protest the Kremlin’s crackdown on free elections in Russia’s capital city, news programs on Russian state-sponsored television on Saturday chose not to lead broadcasts with the massive pro-Democracy demonstrations. Instead, they led with Russian President Vladimir Putin riding a motorized tricycle with a notorious Crimean biker gang, according […]

Daily Mail is reporting that Vladimir Putin might be covering up a nuclear disaster after ambulances were seen in protective film generally reserved for nuclear accidents on Thursday. The vehicles were called to a mysterious explosion at the Nyonoksa weapons testing site in the sub-Arctic Arkhangelsk area. The paramedics treated six victims who all were […]

Just four days after he was arrested for unclear reasons by Russian government authorities, one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most outspoken critics, opposition leader Alex Navalny, has suddenly fallen ill while in prison. Authorities initially described the incident as an “allergic reaction” causing “severe facial swelling and red rashes on the skin,” according to […]

President Donald Trump boasted on Monday that he could end the war in Afghanistan “in a week” but warned that it would come with a hefty death toll. Rather than implement this secret plan, the President said he would rather work hand-in-hand with partners in the region to close out the conflict in the region. […]

New data published by the International Labour Organization shows that nearly 50 percent of global pay is allocated to only 10 percent of workers, while the lowest 20 percent of earners receive just 6.4 percent of the sum payout. On top of that, the lowest 20 percent of income earners — around 650 million workers […]

Most leaders in Central and South America generally evoke one of two stereotypes: either the right wing military man or the socialist firebrand. However, El Salvador recently elected neither. Instead, the small Central American country elected a 37-year-old millennial who accepted the presidency wearing blue jeans and a leather jacket, per The Brookings Institute. The […]

Less than three months after a major exposé revealed that Russia uses sophisticated electronic warfare technology to disrupt local GPS systems as a way to protect President Vladimir Putin from drone strike assassination attempts, as The Inquisitr reported, reports out of Israel say that Russian GPS “spoofing” has disrupted flights coming into Israel’s Ben Gurion […]

President Donald Trump recently warned of a stock market crash if he doesn’t win re-election in the 2020 presidential election, per The Inquisitr. The warning was contradicted by a Bloomberg News report that suggests that the stock market has experienced more gains under Democratic Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton than Trump. But that doesn’t […]

Dutch investigators last year revealed their finding, as The Washington Post reported, that a Russian military unit was responsible for the July 17, 2014, downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over a war-torn region of Ukraine — a shootdown that killed all 298 passengers and crew on board. About two-thirds of the passengers on the […]

Nursultan Nazarbayev, the autocratic president of Kazakhstan, has ruled the Central Asian country since 1990, when Kazakhstan was still part of the Soviet Union. But on March 19, Nazarbayev did something that dictators rarely do, according to Foreign Policy magazine: he resigned. But as the Foreign Policy report made clear, while the longtime ruler was […]

Tinder has been added to a list of online services that is required by the Russian government to hand over all user data to intelligence agencies, according to The Associated Press. The popular dating app, which has over 50 million users worldwide, will join a list of over 175 apps and websites that are required […]

Malaysia’s Environment Minister Yeo Bee Yin announced that the country will be shipping 60 containers with a total of 3,300 tons of plastic trash back to several countries, including the United States and Canada, reported U.S. News. According to Yin, the waste had been illegally smuggled into the country’s processing facilities. “These containers were illegally […]

A new global study from the University of York in the U.K. found that the majority of the world’s rivers are contaminated by antibiotics, as reported by CNN. Samples taken from rivers in 72 different countries found antibiotics present in over 65 percent of them. When testing river waters, researchers with the university looked for […]

Thousands of protesters took to the streets in Hong Kong on Sunday morning, demanding that China answer questions about its crackdown on dissenters during the infamous Tiananmen Square massacre three decades ago, reports Reuters. In 1989, at the height of a popular national movement for democracy in China, the country used its military might to […]

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) released a public statement addressing what international law has to say with respect to pardons for war crimes like the ones being considered by President Donald Trump, Just Security reports. The statement is titled “ICRC Explainer: What does international law say about pardons for war crimes?” and […]

A study performed on the debris on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands in the Indian Ocean found an alarming amount of plastic products and other waste items that had washed up on the beaches, reported The Guardian. A total of 414 million pieces of plastic weighing 238 tons included 977,000 shoes and 373,000 toothbrushes. The remote […]

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern expressed her thoughts on the United States gun laws in an interview with CNN‘s Christiane Amanpour, expressing her shock at how the U.S. has failed to ban automatic and semi-automatic guns despite the hundreds of mass shootings that take place in the country, reported The Guardian. “Australia experienced a […]

During a press briefing on Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin praised special counsel Robert Mueller’s “objective” investigation into Russian election interference, The Washington Examiner reports. Through a translator, Putin said the following. “On the whole he had a very objective investigation and he confirmed no traces whatsoever of collusion between Russia and the incoming administration, […]

Donald Trump, during his 2016 presidential campaign, claimed that his net worth was about $10 billion, according to Money Magazine. But recent revelations have shown that Trump is likely worth far less than that. In fact, according to a New York Times investigation, Trump’s businesses have lost staggering amounts of cash — including losses of […]

Newly minted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a Jewish comedian and sitcom star, is rejecting Vladimir Putin’s offer to provide citizens of Ukraine with Russian passports. Instead, he is turning that offer around to grant citizenship to all Russians who “suffer under the Kremlin’s rule.” The Guardian is reporting that Putin said he was considering a […]

During a tour of the Golan Heights on Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he wants to name a new settlement in the region after President Donald Trump. Per Fox News, Netanyahu’s proposed resolution is a show of gratitude for the White House’s recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the territory. “I’m here on […]

Volodymyr Zelensky, a 41-year-old comic, who is popular for starring in a satirical show where he accidentally becomes the leader of Ukraine, is actually set to become the country’s next president, according to BBC. Although he has not been formally announced as the president, exit polls showed Zelensky winning the election by a landslide with […]

The president of Ecuador has accused WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of trying to use the country’s embassy in London as a “center for spying.” Lenín Moreno said during an interview with The Guardian that Assange repeatedly violated his asylum conditions during the nearly seven years that he stayed at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. He […]

On Saturday, President Donald Trump issued a series of glowing posts on Twitter, describing the two leaders as having a relationship that is “very good,” before adding that “perhaps the term excellent would be even more accurate,” as Fox News reports. The president also hinted at the possibility of a third summit with North Korean […]

Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro believes that Holocaust crimes can be forgiven, but not forgotten, The Hill reports. Bolsonaro’s controversial comments come only days after his visit to the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem. The Brazilian president visited the center together with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “We can forgive, but we […]

In a story stranger than fiction, a popular television comic is set to become Ukraine’s next president. According to The Wall Street Journal, Volodymyr Zelensky won twice as many votes as the second place candidate, current president Petro Poroshenko. Though a run off is scheduled for April 21, all polls indicate that Zelensky will win […]

Fake news, famously, was a huge problem in the 2016 presidential election, with various bad actors creating websites with false information and getting huge amounts of traffic through Facebook. Facebook has taken certain steps to prevent such incidents in the future, but now a similar problem is on the rise in another election – in […]

The man accused of killing 50 people and wounding approximately 50 more during the mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand, has made a formal complaint to the prison indicating that he has been deprived of basic entitlements, The New Zealand Herald reports. The alleged gunman is being held at Auckland Prison in Paremoremo, New Zealand. […]

New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced today that all military-style semi-automatic weapons, assault rifles and high-capacity magazines will be banned. “On March 15 our history changed forever. Now our laws will too. We are announcing action today on behalf of all New Zealanders to strengthen our gun laws and make our country a safer […]

New Zealand mass shooting suspect Brenton Tarrant has fired his lawyer and plans to represent himself in court, a new report claims. The 28-year-old Australian man is in custody and faces murder charges for the worst mass shooting in New Zealand’s history. Police say Tarrant opened fire at two mosques in the city of Christchurch, […]

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control is imposing new sanctions on Russia over “continued and ongoing aggression in Ukraine.” Eight Russian entities and six individuals are being sanctioned by the Treasury Department for “playing a role” in the attempted annexation of Crimea, for backing Ukrainian separatists, and for attacking Ukrainian […]

On Friday, at a small gathering of reporters in the Oval Office following the signing of his first presidential veto, President Donald Trump said he didn’t see the horrific shootings in New Zealand mosques as representative of a rise in white nationalism. According to The Hill, the president used the occasion of signing a veto […]

As the world reels from the horrific shooting of unarmed worshippers in a New Zealand mosque leaving at least 49 dead, one politician in Australia is drawing a furious backlash for his reaction to the massacre. According to The Independent, Senator Fraser Anning posted a comment that seemed to fix the blame for the slaughter […]

Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel is “not a country of all its citizens,” The Jerusalem Post reports. What prompted the prime minister’s comments were social media posts made by famous Israeli actress and television host Rotem Sela. In an Instagram post, Sela pointed out that Israel treats Arabs like second […]

Shamimia Begum’s newborn son has passed away, CNN is reporting. Begum has been at the center of controversy as of late as she begged to return to the United Kingdom after fleeing her home country of London to join ISIS in Syria when she was 15 years old. In response, U.K. Home Secretary Sajid Javid […]