China advises the G7 to mind its own business
China has responded to the G7’s request that it cease its support for Russia in the face of extensive Western sanctions, stating that China bases its own position and policy…
An 18-year-old shooter murders ten people at a New York grocery store
An 18-year-old white shooter killed ten people and injured three more at a grocery shop in Buffalo’s Black neighborhood before surrendering in what officials labeled an act of “racially motivated…
North Korea has reported 820,620 COVID-19 cases, including 42 fatalities in three days
North Korea reported 42 deaths on Sunday, as the country entered its fourth day of a national lockdown intended at containing the impoverished country’s first documented COVID-19 epidemic. North Korea’s…
RUSSIA PROMISES A ‘MILITARY-TECHNICAL’ REACTION IF FINLAND JOINS NATO
The Kremlin warned on Friday that it will be compelled to take punitive “militarytechnical” actions if Finland’s politicians choose to join NATO. Russia’s foreign ministry said that in order to…
Israeli police storm the burial of a murdered Palestinian journalist
At the outset of Shireen Abu Akleh’s funeral procession in Jerusalem on Friday, masked Israeli police officers battled with Palestinian mourners and surged at one point at the party carrying…
Sheikh Khalifa, the President of the United Arab Emirates, has died at the age of 73
Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates, died on Friday at the age of 73. The Ministry of Presidential Affairs confirmed Khalifa’s death, but provided…
Ukraine will convene the first war crimes trial of a captured Russian soldier
Ukraine’s top prosecutor revealed preparations for the first war crimes prosecution of a captured Russian soldier on Wednesday, as combat continued in the east and south and the Kremlin left…
North Korea announces the first COVID-19 case and demands a lockdown.
On Thursday, North Korea officially verified its first COVID-19 outbreak and declared a state of emergency, with state media saying that a sub-variant of the highly transmissible Omicron virus had…
Ukraine fights back Russian soldiers
On Wednesday, Ukrainian forces announced battlefield successes in a counterattack that might mark a shift in the war’s momentum, while Kyiv cut gas deliveries on a route via Russian-held territory,…
Hong Kong police detain a Catholic cardinal and a democracy activist
According to media reports, Hong Kong’s national security authorities detained Cardinal Joseph Zen, one of Asia’s most prominent Catholic clergy, and four others who helped operate a now-disbanded humanitarian fund…