Concerns over a Chinese invasion of Taiwan continue to mount with Beijing now suspected of involvement in damaging some of the island nation’s undersea internet cables this week in another show of deliberate harassment. The disruption to Taiwan’s internet was not only a nuisance for the island’s inhabitants and visitors, …
Read More »Putin congratulates China’s Xi on third term, praises ‘strategic cooperation
Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a message of congratulations to Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday, commending his re-election into a historic third term. In the letter, Putin called Xi his “friend,” and lauded the two nations’ “strategic cooperation” and “fruitful” relationship. CHINA’S XI DEMANDS RAPID MILITARY UPGRADE TO ‘WORLD …
Read More »Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel operative pleads guilty to international drug trafficking charges
A man who helped the violent Sinaloa Cartel smuggle cocaine into Mexico and the United States for more than a decade pleaded guilty Wednesday to drug trafficking charges. Jaime Antonio Mandujano Eudave, 61, worked with the Sinaloa Cartel between 1998 and 2012 to transport cocaine from Colombia into various parts …
Read More »Mexican authorities find Washington state 8-year-old missing since 2018, returned to US: FBI
A Washington state 8-year-old missing since 2018 was recently found in Mexico and returned to the U.S., according to the FBI. Aranza Maria Ochoa Lopez was kidnapped by her biological mother on Oct. 25, 2018, at a Vancouver, Washington, shopping mall, according to the FBI. She was found and safely …
Read More »Mexican cartel ‘apologizes’ in letter for kidnapping, murder of Americans, turns in members ‘responsible’
Friend of Mexican cartel victim talks about his life Mia Godwin, a friend of one of the Americans killed during a cartel kidnapping last week in Mexico, talks about her reaction to finding out he died and what kind of person he was. (Mark Darrough for Fox News Digital) A …
Read More »German authorities respond to shooting inside Jehovah’s Witness hall that killed multiple people
A gunman opened fire in a Jehovah’s Witness hall in Hamburg, Germany Thursday evening, killing several people and wounding others, police. The shooting happened around 9 p.m. The exact number of dead and the number of injured remained unclear. Armed police officers near the scene of a shooting in Hamburg, …
Read More »Philippine plane wreckage found with all 6 aboard dead
A Philippine search team guided by sniffer dogs on Thursday found the wreckage of a single-engine plane that crashed on a mountain more than a month ago and confirmed that all six people on board were dead, officials said. The Cessna 206 plane went missing after taking off Jan. 24 …
Read More »China’s Xi Jinping unanimously elected to serve third term as president
Chinese President Xi Jinping won an official third five-year term as president Friday, following a vote by the country’s mostly ceremonial legislature. The National People’s Congress voted 2,952 to 0 to re-elect Xi, who is 69, putting him on track to stay in power for life. Xi’s victory was a …
Read More »Nearly 200 church sex abuse victims get compensation from France’s Catholic Church
About 190 victims of child sexual abuse by priests or other church representatives have been promised financial compensation so far from France’s Catholic Church under a sweeping reparations program, the independent body in charge of the process said Thursday. A report from the Independent National Authority for Recognition and Reparation, …
Read More »US sanctions Chinese network that sold drone components to Iran, says UAVs were used by Russia in Ukraine
The U.S. Treasury Department announced new sanctions Thursday on a China-based network that sells aerospace components to Iran for manufacturing drones. The Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industrial Company manufactures the Shahed-136 drones and exports them to Russia, which has increasingly used them to bombard Ukraine in recent months. “Iran is directly …
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