Preparations for the still-unconfirmed meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un are moving ahead, as the South Korean government said on Friday it is working to expedite both a summit with North Korea and a meeting between Trump and President Moon Jae-in. Meanwhile, North Korea’s Foreign Minister was spotted in Sweden, prompting speculation that he was doing advance work for Trump and Kim to meet there.
byJohn Hayward16 Mar 2018, 3:27 PM PDT0
Despite a frenzied over-reaction that practically nuked Liang Xiangyi off the Internet, the tyrants of Beijing cannot quite make the exasperated reporter in the blue dress disappear.
byJohn Hayward16 Mar 2018, 3:15 PM PDT0
China is set to exact consequences for individuals who score low in its long-planned “social credit system,” announcing this week that it would begin to ban Chinese citizens from traveling if their social credit score was too low.
byFrances Martel16 Mar 2018, 2:46 PM PDT0
Turkish troops fighting to conquer the Kurdish-held region of Afrin in Syria are committing “war crimes” against Yazidis and Christians that mirror the “ethnic cleansing and genocide” in the region at the hands of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), declared a top United Nations envoy.
byEdwin Mora16 Mar 2018, 2:16 PM PDT0
The semi-autonomous government of Hong Kong on Friday announced plans to impose a three-year jail sentence on anyone who disrespects the Chinese national anthem.
byJohn Hayward16 Mar 2018, 1:56 PM PDT0
A Palestinian driver hit four Israeli soldiers with his car Friday afternoon, killing an officer and a soldier and seriously injuring the others, outside the Mevo Dotan settlement in the northern West Bank.
byBreitbart Jerusalem16 Mar 2018, 1:49 PM PDT0
A dissident reggaetón artist imprisoned after a Cuban government agent attacked him while using the internet has been placed in solitary confinement in prison and refused to eat or drink water for one week, his mother told the Miami-based news outlet Martí Noticias this week.
byFrances Martel16 Mar 2018, 1:43 PM PDT0
Amid widespread reports National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster is expected to lose his job within days, it is instructive to recall the troubling ideology and concerning connections of the man who has been serving in one of the most powerful U.S. national security positions.
byAaron Klein16 Mar 2018, 1:34 PM PDT0
A Filipino senator is facing sedition charges for a speech criticizing the country’s strongman, President Rodrigo Duterte.
byBen Kew16 Mar 2018, 12:10 PM PDT0
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan railed on Thursday against the modern Turkish language, lamenting that “unpleasant, dull and soulless words” had entered it when Turkish Republic founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ordered reforms to formalize the Ottoman dialects.
byFrances Martel16 Mar 2018, 10:58 AM PDT0
94-year-old dictator Robert Mugabe returned to the spotlight on Thursday, four months after he was removed from the office he held for four decades. Despite an extravagant exit package that guaranteed Mugabe a lifetime of luxury in exchange for his graceful departure, he bitterly criticized the “coup” that swept him from power, denounced his successor Emmerson Mnangagwa as a “disgrace,” and suggested his ouster should be reversed.
byJohn Hayward16 Mar 2018, 10:49 AM PDT0
With the US announcing cuts in aid money to the Palestinians, one might think the Palestinian Authority would try to cut expenses, but an invoice from a hotel stay by top Palestinian officials this month indicates the exact opposite.
byBreitbart Jerusalem16 Mar 2018, 10:35 AM PDT0
The Vatican under Pope Francis is consolidating its opposition to “gender theory,” the notion that maleness and femaleness can be separated from biological sex, according to veteran Vatican analyst John L. Allen, Jr.
byThomas D. Williams, Ph.D.16 Mar 2018, 10:28 AM PDT0
A Honduran migrant has pleaded guilty to his involvement in a plan to blow up a shopping mall in Miami on behalf of the Islamic State
byBen Kew16 Mar 2018, 10:11 AM PDT0
BEIRUT — Syrian government and Russian airstrikes killed at least 46 people in a besieged town outside of Damascus on Friday, while Turkish shelling and attacks on a Kurdish-held town in northern Syria left at least 22 dead there, monitors and officials said.
byBreitbart Jerusalem16 Mar 2018, 9:31 AM PDT0
Internet services in Bali, Indonesia, will be switched off for 24 hours on Saturday to mark Nyepi, an annual “sacred day of reflection,” according to the Guardian.
byCharlie Nash16 Mar 2018, 8:53 AM PDT0
TEL AVIV — A security delegation from the Palestinian Authority is set to arrive in the Gaza Strip at the orders of Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah in order to follow the investigation into an explosion that recently targeted a convoy that included the prime minister and intelligence chief Majed Faraj, a Palestinian source from the Interior Ministry said.
byAli Waked16 Mar 2018, 8:52 AM PDT0
India’s state-run carrier Air India said Friday it will fly over Saudi airspace to Tel Aviv, a move that ends a decades-long Saudi ban on the use of its airspace for flights to Israel.
byBreitbart Jerusalem16 Mar 2018, 8:48 AM PDT0
U.S. military troops in Niger repelled an attack in Niger by Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists in December, months after the terrorist group ambushed a Green Beret-led team in October, killing four American service members, the Pentagon has acknowledged.
byEdwin Mora16 Mar 2018, 6:30 AM PDT0
A French judge has issued an arrest warrant for the sister of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman over claims she ordered her bodyguard to attack a worker at her Paris apartment.
byBen Kew16 Mar 2018, 6:25 AM PDT0
A well-known Israeli soccer player from one of the country’s top teams appears in a disturbing sex video that was spreading across social media Thursday morning.
byBreitbart Jerusalem16 Mar 2018, 5:42 AM PDT0
The lethal nerve agent that poisoned a former Russian spy in Salisbury was planted in his daughter’s suitcase before she left Moscow for the UK, sources claim British intelligence now believes.
byLiam Deacon16 Mar 2018, 5:29 AM PDT0
Failed former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton continues to suffer mishaps on her foreign trip to India.
byCharlie Spiering16 Mar 2018, 4:25 AM PDT0
Israel has retained its spot as the 11th happiest country in the world for the fifth year running, according to the United Nations’ annual “World Happiness Report,” published Wednesday.
byBreitbart Jerusalem16 Mar 2018, 3:57 AM PDT0
With Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on the cusp of winning a second term in this month’s election, what’s left of the opposition is reduced to praying he will step aside in four years.
byBreitbart Jerusalem16 Mar 2018, 2:12 AM PDT0
Palestinian groups in the West Bank and Gaza are urging mass protests Friday to mark 100 days since US President Donald Trump announced his decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
byBreitbart Jerusalem16 Mar 2018, 1:51 AM PDT0
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Concerns grow of humanitarian disaster in Afrin, Syria, as Turkey’s forces enter Silence from North Korea puts Kim-Trump summit in doubt Concerns grow of humanitarian disaster in Afrin, Syria, as Turkey’s forces enter Syrians
byJohn J. Xenakis16 Mar 2018, 1:48 AM PDT0
The United Nations received pledges Thursday of nearly $100 million in new funding for the UN relief agency for Palestinians after the US slashed its aid, but it is still facing a nearly $350 million shortfall this year.
byBreitbart Jerusalem16 Mar 2018, 1:34 AM PDT0
Like the foreign policy establishment he represented, Rex Tillerson refused to abandon the false belief that nothing can be done without PLO approval.
byCaroline Glick15 Mar 2018, 11:22 PM PDT0
Writing at the Wall Street Journal, Aruna Viswanatha writes that Peter Schweizer’s new book, “Secret Empires,” reports “that China has worked to gain leverage over powerful American politicians by targeting their families with investment opportunities and business deals.”
byBreitbart News15 Mar 2018, 8:22 PM PDT0
U.S. Army Officer and National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster had harsh words for Russia and Iran on Thursday at a discussion at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on the ongoing civil war in Syria, saying it is time for “consequences” for the two supporters of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
byPenny Starr15 Mar 2018, 7:31 PM PDT0
According to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russia will beat NASA to Mars with a mission launching in 2019.
byNate Church15 Mar 2018, 6:23 PM PDT0
China and Russia are “expanding aggressively” throughout the Western Hemisphere while pumping money and weapons into authoritarian regimes across Latin America, a move that poses a potential U.S. national security threat, warned Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL).
byEdwin Mora15 Mar 2018, 6:18 PM PDT0
American naval forces have reportedly seen a definite change in Iran’s behavior, noting that the Islamic Republic has apparently stopped provoking U.S. Naval ships in the Persian Gulf for nearly a year.
byAdelle Nazarian15 Mar 2018, 5:53 PM PDT0
China’s state-run Global Times argued in an editorial Thursday that some “Hindu extremists” affiliated with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India consider the Taj Mahal a “stain on Indian history” given the temple’s Muslim roots.
byEdwin Mora15 Mar 2018, 5:25 PM PDT0
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
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