‘Insane’: Xi’s call for ethnic Chinese to tell Beijing’s story stirs anger | Politics News

‘Insane’: Xi’s call for ethnic Chinese to tell Beijing’s story stirs anger | Politics News

In late February, 59-year-old Phillip Chan Man Ping became the first person in Singapore to be officially designated a “politically significant person”. The city-state’s authorities had already announced that Chan had “shown susceptibility to being influenced by foreign actors, and willingness to advance their interests” and that Chan’s activities “were…

Faced with an election ban, Venezuela opposition leader names alternate | Elections News

Faced with an election ban, Venezuela opposition leader names alternate | Elections News

Opposition leader María Corina Machado named professor Corina Yoris as her replacement in the 2024 presidential race. Maria Corina Machado, the opposition leader in Venezuela’s upcoming presidential election, has thrown her support behind an alternate candidate as she continues to face a ban from running for office. She named the…

Peruvian democracy weakened as government consolidates control: Report | Politics News

Peruvian democracy weakened as government consolidates control: Report | Politics News

Peruvian democracy has continued to deteriorate more than a year after the removal of former President Pedro Castillo, according to a recent report from the Washington-based nonprofit Freedom House. The report — released this month — traced the lingering effects of a government crackdown on protesters, as well as efforts…

Israel seizes 800 hectares of Palestinian land in occupied West Bank | Occupied West Bank News

Israel seizes 800 hectares of Palestinian land in occupied West Bank | Occupied West Bank News

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s announcement comes despite international pressure against Israel’s building of illegal settlements. Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has declared 800 hectares (1,977 acres) in the occupied West Bank as state land, in a move that will facilitate the use of the ground for settlement building. The announcement…

AOC decries ‘unfolding genocide’ in Gaza, urges halting weapons to Israel | Israel War on Gaza News

AOC decries ‘unfolding genocide’ in Gaza, urges halting weapons to Israel | Israel War on Gaza News

Washington, DC – Describing the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza as a genocide, progressive Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has called on the United States to suspend weapons transfers to Israel. In an impassioned speech on the floor of the House of Representatives on Friday, Ocasio-Cortez condemned the Israeli blockade on Gaza, which…

Dozens killed, trapped after shooting at concert hall near Moscow | Crime

Dozens killed, trapped after shooting at concert hall near Moscow | Crime

NewsFeed Screams and gunshots can be heard from inside a concert hall near Moscow, Russia after gunmen burst in and opened fire. Russia’s Federal Security Service said 40 people were killed and more than 100 wounded. Russian news reports say the gunmen threw explosives that set the building on fire….

Bodies of 65 people found in mass grave in Libya: UN migration agency | Refugees News

Bodies of 65 people found in mass grave in Libya: UN migration agency | Refugees News

The IOM believes the people were migrants who died in the process of being smuggled through the desert in Libya. The bodies of at least 65 people have been discovered in a mass grave in southwest Libya, the United Nations’ migration agency has said. In a statement on Friday, the…

‘Moral failure’: US House approves bill that would ban UNRWA funding | UNRWA News

‘Moral failure’: US House approves bill that would ban UNRWA funding | UNRWA News

Washington, DC – The United States House of Representatives has approved a $1.2 trillion funding bill that would ban funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) amid the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. The measure, which passed in a 286 to 134 vote on Friday, would…

US top diplomat holds talks in Israel as Netanyahu vows Rafah invasion | Israel War on Gaza News

US top diplomat holds talks in Israel as Netanyahu vows Rafah invasion | Israel War on Gaza News

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told the United States’s top diplomat that Israel is determined to send troops into the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where some 1.5 million Palestinians are sheltering, and will do so without US backing if necessary. Following a meeting with visiting US Secretary of…

Russia is in a ‘state of war’ in Ukraine, Kremlin says for the first time | Russia-Ukraine war News

Russia is in a ‘state of war’ in Ukraine, Kremlin says for the first time | Russia-Ukraine war News

The Kremlin has for two years referred to its invasion of Ukraine as a ‘special military operation’, not a war. More than two years after invading Ukraine, the Kremlin has said that Russia regards itself to be at “war” due to the West’s intervention and support of its neighbour. So…