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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

On the sidelines of the country's annual parliament session, a Chinese journalist on Tuesday morning showed her contempt for a fellow reporter's softball question with such force that videos of her facial expression went viral.

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

Air China's in-flight magazine ran an article detailing safety tips for travellers based on the race and nationality of residents in London

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

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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

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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

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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

White House National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster delivers keynote remarks during a discussion on 'Syria: Is the Worst Yet to Come?' in Washington, DC, on March 15, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / JIM WATSON (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)

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

Philippine Senator Antonio Trillanes had President Rodrigo Duterte's son, Paolo, brought before a Senate inquiry to face allegations he was involved in drug trafficking

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

People walk by a bust of Turkish Republic founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, at the school that will be the polling station where Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will vote later in the day, in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, June 7, 2015. Turkey is holding Sunday a general election and approximately 56 million Turkish voters are eligible to cast their ballots to elect 550 members of national parliament. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis}

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

Mugabe said he did not hate his successor but insisted he would not work with him

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

A Palestinian Bedouin woman washes a bowl on October 22, 2013 at an encampment where she lives with her family in tents amid harsh living conditions with no electricity in southern Gaza City.

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

WASHINGTON ― An immigrant from Honduras who federal investigators say supports ISIS faces charges he attempted to blow up a fake FBI-supplied bomb at a Miami shopping mall.

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

This photo released on Saturday, Feb 24, 2018 by the Syrian Civil Defense group known as the White Helmets, shows members of the Syrian Civil Defense group and civilians gathering to help survivors from a street attacked by airstrikes and shelling by Syrian government forces, in Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, Syria. A new wave of airstrikes and shelling on eastern suburbs of the Syrian capital Damascus left at least 22 people dead and more than a dozen wounded Saturday, raising the death toll of a week of bombing in the area to nearly 500, including scores of women and children. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

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

A vehicle damaged in the explosion that went off near Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah's convoy is seen in the northern Gaza city of Beit Hanoun on March 13, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mohammed Abed)

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

Air India's Dreamliner taxis on the tarmac upon arriving in Sydney on August 30, 2013. Australia's first ever Dreamliner passenger flight touched down in Sydney as the airport welcomed direct services from New Delhi to Sydney with Air India. AFP PHOTO / Saeed Khan (Photo credit should read SAEED KHAN/AFP/Getty Images)

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

This undated file image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014 shows fighters from the al-Qaida-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) marching in Raqqa, Syria. Saudi Arabia and other Gulf petro-powerhouses encouraged a flow of cash to Sunni rebels in Syria for years. But now they face a worrying blowback as an al-Qaida breakaway group that benefited from some of the funding storms across a wide swath of Iraq. Gulf nations fear its extremism could be a threat to them as well. But the tangle of rivalries in the region is complex: Saudi Arabia and its allies firmly oppose any U.S. military action to stop the Islamic State’s advance in Iraq because they don’t want to boost its Shiite-led prime minister or his ally, Iran. (AP Photo/Militant Website, File)

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

French arrest warrant out for Saudi crown prince's sister

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

CA Bastia's Anthony Salis (R) vies with Bastia's French defender Gaetan Varenne (L) during the French Cup football match CA Bastia (CAB) vs Sporting Club de Bastia (SCB) at the Francois Coty stadium in Ajaccio, Corsica, on January 6, 2013. AFP PHOTO / PASCAL POCHARD-CASABIANCA (Photo credit should read PASCAL POCHARD-CASABIANCA/AFP/Getty Images)

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

In this Thursday, March 15, 2018 photo, former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, center, arrives at the departure terminal of Jodhpur airport in Rajasthan state, India. (AP Photo/Sunil Verma)

Failed former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton continues to suffer mishaps on her foreign trip to India.

byCharlie Spiering16 Mar 2018, 4:25 AM PDT0

Hovi Star representing Israel celebrates as he advances to the grand final, after qualifying in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden, on May 12, 2016.

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

In this photo released by the Egyptian Presidency, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, center, attends a conference commemorating the country's martyrs, in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, March 15, 2018. Up for re-election in less than two weeks, Egypt's president on Thursday took center stage at a televised ceremony declaring his readiness to personally join the battle against militants and decorating soldiers and families of fallen ones. (Sherif Abdel Meniom/Egyptian Presidency via AP)

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

A Palestinian protester burns an Israeli flag after the funeral of Palestinian Milad Said Ayyash, 17, who died of wounds sustained in yesterday's protests in east Jerusalem, Saturday, May 14, 2011.(AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

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

Civilians have fled Afrin city in recent days as battles rage between Turkish-backed forces and Kurdish fighters

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

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres

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

Rex Tillerson

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

United States Army Officer and National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster spoke at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Thursday about the ongoing civil war in Syria. (Penny Starr/Breitbart News)

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

Vladimir Putin

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

Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) spekas during a foreign relations hearing in Washington, DC on January 9, 2018, on the attacks on US Diplomats in Cuba. The United States is to review how the State Department has responded to alleged attacks on the health of 24 diplomats and family members in Havana, officials said Tuesday. The State Department had come under renewed pressure to form an 'accountability review board' as the mystery surrounding the brain trauma suffered by the envoys has only deepened. Initially officials suggested the Americans had been targeted by some sort of acoustic weapon, although news reports now say the FBI has been unable to confirm this theory. / AFP PHOTO / Andrew CABALLERO-REYNOLDS (Photo credit should read ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP/Getty Images)

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

FILE - In this July 2, 2012 file photo, an Iranian Revolutionary Guard speedboat escorts a passenger ship, near the spot where an Iranian airliner was shot down by a U.S. warship 24 years ago killing 290 passengers in Persian Gulf. While U.S. President Donald Trump angered Iran with his speech on refusing to re-certify the nuclear deal, Tehran won't walk away from it in retaliation. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

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

TOPSHOT - Visitors take a photo in front of the Taj Mahal in Agra on January 3, 2018. India is to restrict the number of daily visitors to the Taj Mahal in an effort to preserve the iconic 17th-century monument to love, its biggest tourist draw. Millions of mostly Indian tourists visit the Taj Mahal every year and their numbers are increasing steadily as domestic travel becomes more accessible. / AFP PHOTO / DOMINIQUE FAGET (Photo credit should read DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/Getty Images)

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

Xi Jinping

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

China denounces new U.S. sanctions on North Korea

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 escort Cuban suspect Raul Gutierrez to court where a judge will rule on prosecutors’ request he be held on terrorism and conspiracy charges in Bogota, Colombia, Thursday, March 15, 2018. Gutierrez is suspected of plotting to kill American diplomats in the name of the Islamic State. Fernando Vergara - AP Photo

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

Assad, Putin

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

Gen. John Nicholson, the top American commander in Afghanistan, speaks to reporters Wednesday, March 14, 2018 at Bagram air base north of Kabul, Afghanistan. Nicholson spoke about prospects for peace talks with the Taliban. (AP Photos/Robert Burns)

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 conducts a meeting with Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May with other members of their delegations, inside 10 Downing Street, London, on Wednesday March 7, 2018. Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received a royal welcome with high level political talks to begin his three day visit to Britain, although protesters criticised the visit. (Dan Kitwood/Pool via AP)

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

Mufti Kayitare was speaking to hundreds of Muslims who gathered at Kigali Muslim Cultural Centre in Nyamirambo, yesterday, for Eid al-Adha prayers.

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

Syrian civilians fleeing Afrin on March 13, 2018. Photo: AFP / Nazeer al-Khatib

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

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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

This file photo shows Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who has officially submitted his candidacy for presidential polls due in March

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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