Speaking to Reuters on Thursday, analysts and Chinese citizens expressed mounting anxiety about Xi Jinping’s bid for autocratic power.
byJohn Hayward15 Mar 2018, 2:50 PM PDT0
Judging from the reactions by Chinese ministers and state-run media organs, Beijing is wary of former CIA Director Mike Pompeo’s appointment to Secretary of State, preferring his predecessor Rex Tillerson.
byJohn Hayward15 Mar 2018, 2:33 PM PDT0
Police in Colombia arrested a Cuban national illegally present in the country on Tuesday after communications with Islamic State-affiliated individuals through the encrypted app Telegram revealed he was plotting a jihadist attack on the capital, Bogotá.
byFrances Martel15 Mar 2018, 2:12 PM PDT0
The Pentagon on Thursday accused Russia of “double dealing” in Syria — agreeing to a cease fire in its seven-year civil war, but then supporting Syrian forces bombing civilians in East Ghouta.
byKristina Wong15 Mar 2018, 1:11 PM PDT0
The United States has deemed protecting the sprawling Afghan capital of Kabul the “main effort” of an intensified U.S.-backed offensive following a series of high-profile terrorist assaults at the hands of the Taliban and the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), revealed the top commander of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan.
byEdwin Mora15 Mar 2018, 1:10 PM PDT0
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, commonly referred to as MBS, asserted that Riyadh will pursue nuclear weapons development if Iran possesses a nuclear bomb and reiterated his claim that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei is “very much like Hitler” in a CBS interview to air on Sunday.
byFrances Martel15 Mar 2018, 1:02 PM PDT0
Authorities in the Rwandan capital of Kigali have banned Mosques from using loudspeakers during the Muslim call to prayer.
byBen Kew15 Mar 2018, 12:52 PM PDT0
The Turkish government entered Afrin city this week, the main population center of the eponymous Syrian Kurdish province, fueling fears of artificially imposed “demographic change” meant to displace local Kurds and replace them with Arabs and Turkmen.
byFrances Martel15 Mar 2018, 12:15 PM PDT0
The Trump administration announced sanctions on Thursday against Russian individuals and organizations accused of interfering in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The sanctions designate five entities and 19 individuals under legislation and executive orders aimed at punishing those who engage in malicious cyber-activities.
byJohn Hayward15 Mar 2018, 10:42 AM PDT0
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said on Thursday that he is prepared to personally join the battle against Islamic State militants in the Sinai Peninsula. Before assuming the presidency following a 2013 coup, Sisi held the rank of general and was head of Egypt’s armed forces.
byJohn Hayward15 Mar 2018, 9:35 AM PDT0
A film lauding Chinese leader Xi Jinping has now become the highest-grossing documentary in China’s history.
byBen Kew15 Mar 2018, 9:18 AM PDT0
President Donald Trump said that he was eager to visit Ireland, revealing that he had already received a formal invitation.
byCharlie Spiering15 Mar 2018, 8:56 AM PDT0
TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and the subsequent transfer of his country’s embassy there constituted “shock therapy” against Palestinian rejectionism, which is the real obstacle to peace, Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer said at a Senate event on Tuesday.
byDeborah Danan15 Mar 2018, 8:39 AM PDT0
TEL AVIV — The working assumption within the Palestinian Authority is that Palestinian intelligence commander Majed Faraj and not PA Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah was the main target of the assassination attempt on Tuesday morning in the Gaza Strip, a PA official told Breitbart Jerusalem.
byAli Waked15 Mar 2018, 8:37 AM PDT0
Pope Francis reiterated traditional Catholic doctrine Wednesday, reminding pilgrims that no one in a state of mortal sin should receive Holy Communion.
byThomas D. Williams, Ph.D.15 Mar 2018, 7:22 AM PDT0
Contents: Thousands of Ethiopian Oromos flee into Kenya, threatening regional stability; Fears grow that Ethiopia’s ethnic clashes will destabilize the region
byJohn J. Xenakis15 Mar 2018, 6:31 AM PDT0
The Biden bombshell is one of many revealed in a new investigative book Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends by Government Accountability Institute President and Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer. Schweizer’s last book, Clinton Cash, sparked an FBI investigation into the Clinton Foundation.
byEzra Dulis15 Mar 2018, 6:07 AM PDT0
On Thursday, the New York Post published an exclusive excerpt of the soon-to-be-released investigative blockbuster, Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends by Government Accountability Institute President and Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer.
byBreitbart News15 Mar 2018, 6:07 AM PDT0
School administrators in British Columbia are trying to fight racism by posting a series of white-shaming posters on school walls, in an effort to educate students on the evils of “white privilege.”
byThomas D. Williams, Ph.D.15 Mar 2018, 5:17 AM PDT0
The Knesset passed the state’s budget for 2019 in the early hours of Thursday, closing out the parliament’s winter term just over a day after the coalition managed to solve a crisis that nearly saw the government fall and new elections called.
byBreitbart Jerusalem15 Mar 2018, 4:03 AM PDT0
A group of Members of Parliament and other parliamentary staff cost taxpayers £84,000 for a trip to the United States to investigate the phenomenon of fake news, spending a remarkable 11,506,749 per-cent more on the jolly than the total spent by the alleged Kremlin “troll farm” on Facebook adverts during the Brexit referendum campaign.
byOliver JJ Lane15 Mar 2018, 3:47 AM PDT0
The Vatican has come under heavy fire after admitting to doctoring a photograph of a letter from Emeritus Pope Benedict commenting on a recently published a series of books on the theology of Pope Francis.
byThomas D. Williams, Ph.D.15 Mar 2018, 2:57 AM PDT0
HAMMURIYEH, Syria — Syrian regime forces broke into a key town in the beleaguered rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta late Wednesday amid heavy bombardment, a monitor said.
byBreitbart Jerusalem15 Mar 2018, 2:11 AM PDT0
Rodrigo Duterte has announced that he will pull the Philippines out of the International Criminal Court (ICC) as it continues to examine allegations surrounding his brutal drug war.
byBen Kew14 Mar 2018, 7:29 PM PDT0
A former CIA whistleblower who allegedly exposed the “deep state” and used to work as a fellow at the Heritage Foundation told Iran’s state-run Press TV Tuesday that the State Department will become “very reckless” and “violent” as a result of President Donald Trump’s decision to appoint CIA Director Mike Pompeo as America’s new secretary of state.
byAdelle Nazarian14 Mar 2018, 7:09 PM PDT0
China reportedly joined the European Union in urging the Taliban to welcome Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s U.S.-backed offer to declare a ceasefire and recognize the narco-jihadist group as a legitimate political movement.
byEdwin Mora14 Mar 2018, 6:49 PM PDT0
The Emirati princess Sheikha Latifa has disappeared off the coast of Goa hours after posting a chilling video in which she told viewers that she might not return.
byBen Kew14 Mar 2018, 6:04 PM PDT0
NEW YORK — Victoria Nuland, a senior official in John Kerry’s State Department, gave the green light for the FBI to first meet with former British spy Christopher Steele regarding his infamous, largely discredited dossier alleging wild claims about Donald Trump and Russia, according to a book released this week.
byAaron Klein14 Mar 2018, 5:15 PM PDT0
WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. military satellites used to warn of a missile strike or to deploy nuclear weapons are vulnerable to attacks by the Chinese and Russian armed forces, which have eclipsed their American counterparts in developing some significant space warfighting capabilities, experts cautioned lawmakers.
byEdwin Mora14 Mar 2018, 4:29 PM PDT0
Saudi Arabia’s reform program continued on Monday with a statement from the Information Ministry that women will now be allowed to retain custody of their children after a divorce.
byJohn Hayward14 Mar 2018, 3:27 PM PDT0
TEL AVIV – The Trump administration will move ahead with projects in the Gaza Strip with or without the Palestinian Authority if its chairman Mahmoud Abbas continues to boycott the U.S., senior administration officials said Tuesday.
byDeborah Danan14 Mar 2018, 3:19 PM PDT0
Outgoing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s chief of staff and deputy chief of staff submitted their resignations shortly after the announcement that Tillerson was let go from the department.
byMichelle Moons14 Mar 2018, 2:48 PM PDT0
A source within the Japanese government said on Tuesday that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may seek a meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, presumably at some point after U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Kim, assuming that summit does indeed occur.
byJohn Hayward14 Mar 2018, 1:16 PM PDT0
In his first annual message to the legislature in January – roughly equivalent in ceremonial significance to a State of the Union address – Liberian President George Manneh Weah called for eliminating the “unnecessary, racist, and inappropriate” constitutional clause that bars non-blacks from becoming full citizens of his nation. Liberia’s top Muslim cleric responded this week by warning that black citizens would be marginalized and oppressed if the rules are changed.
byJohn Hayward14 Mar 2018, 1:01 PM PDT0
Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu warned Secretary of State nominee Mike Pompeo Wednesday that any new top diplomat in America must learn “how to behave” before addressing Ankara, claiming Turkey “would like to work with” anyone nominated to the post.
byFrances Martel14 Mar 2018, 12:12 PM PDT0
‘Fascism’ is just a ‘smear’ used by the media to discredit ‘populism’, Steve Bannon has said in a wide-ranging interview in the Spectator.
byJames Delingpole14 Mar 2018, 12:06 PM PDT0
North Korea’s state media, which has softened its tone towards the United States since President Donald Trump accepted to meet dictator Kim Jong-un, published an aggressive piece Wednesday condemning human rights “imperialists” for exposing the widespread violations in the communist country.
byFrances Martel14 Mar 2018, 12:04 PM PDT0
French authorities have fined a bread baker €3,000 ($3,700) for keeping his bakery open seven days a week, when the laws stipulate a mandatory day off.
byThomas D. Williams, Ph.D.14 Mar 2018, 11:50 AM PDT0
The Chinese state newspaper Global Times chided U.S. President Donald Trump in a piece analyzing the removal of now former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Wednesday, claiming the high turnover in the administration shows Trump has a “lack of willingness or ability” to “see disagreements resolved.”
byFrances Martel14 Mar 2018, 11:33 AM PDT0
George Clooney has praised President Donald Trump’s foreign policy as the probable reason for the unlikely peace talks between the U.S. and North Korea.
byJames Delingpole14 Mar 2018, 9:56 AM PDT0
French authorities are reportedly considering fining Apple and Google for allegedly taking advantage of smaller french tech firms.
byLucas Nolan14 Mar 2018, 9:22 AM PDT0
Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney joined SiriusXM host Matt Boyle on Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily to talk about the sacking of Rex Tillerson as secretary of state. Gaffney proposed that if President Trump wants more top officials who truly support his policies, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster should be the next to go.
byJohn Hayward14 Mar 2018, 9:15 AM PDT0
Climate change coupled with wide-spread famine is “creating more terrorism” in Africa, home to jihadist organizations like the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and al-Qaeda, declared Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY).
byEdwin Mora14 Mar 2018, 9:12 AM PDT0
Tensions between the United States and Turkey have reportedly led to media reports that the U.S. intends to withdraw its troops from Incirlik Air Base in southern Turkey.
byAdelle Nazarian14 Mar 2018, 8:38 AM PDT0
TEL AVIV – Officials from the UN agency for Palestinian refugees will meet in Rome with world powers on Thursday in an urgent attempt to alleviate the crisis it faces after the U.S. withheld hundreds of millions of dollars in funding earlier this year.
byDeborah Danan14 Mar 2018, 8:04 AM PDT0
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