Hong Kong’s high court has rejected a mainland China-backed government attempt to ban a protest song, Glory to Hong Kong. It became the unofficial anthem after the 2019 pro-democracy protests and ensuing crackdown.
Fox News Channel has removed its possibility to donate to The Satanic Temple and other controversial groups after an outcry over these matching gifts by the U.S. conservative broadcaster, Worthy News learned.
Residents in southern Thailand were mourning Sunday after authorities said at least nine people, including three children, were killed in a blast at a market’s illegal fireworks warehouse.
Pope Francis appealed Sunday for a resumption of the grain deal as African leaders left two days of meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin, where they urged him to continue the agreement amid rising food prices and food shortages.
Amid heavy fighting against invading Russian troops, Ukraine has moved its official Christmas Day state holiday from January 7 to December 25 as part of Kyiv’s efforts to distance itself from Moscow and the Russian Orthodox Church. The symbolic move came hours before the war escalated, with Russian mercenary forces fighting in Ukraine reportedly moving towards the Polish border.
Facebook officials removed some COVID-19 content after being pressured by the Biden administration, The Wall Street Journal reported.
New rules passed by El Salvador’s congress Wednesday will allow courts to try accused gang members in mass trials, in an effort to expedite tens of thousands of cases for those detained under the country’s crackdown on street gangs.
The U.S. is set to announce $345 million in military aid for Taiwan, two U.S. officials said Friday. It would be the Biden administration’s first major package drawing on America’s own stockpiles under a new policy intended to speed up military aid to help Taiwan counter China.
Over 100 mercenaries belonging to the Russian-linked Wagner group in Belarus have moved close to the border with Poland, the Polish prime minister said Saturday.
People will get to see the first on Tuesday evening, 1 August, as the full moon rises in the southeast from a mere 222,159 miles (357,530km) away.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Israel would enter “uncharted territory” if the Supreme Court struck down a recently passed “reasonableness” amendment, that’s part of a contentious judicial reform, during an interview with CNN on Thursday evening.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a security assessment Sunday with Israel’s top defense brass to discuss courses of action proposed by the military, his office said, as tensions with Hezbollah rise on Israel’s border with Lebanon.
A fox was seen along a wall of the Temple Mount during a fast marking the destruction of the two temples in Jerusalem this week, fulfilling an ancient prophecy regarding the ruins of the holy site.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday announced a NIS 100 billion ($27 billion) plan to link the northern city of Kiryat Shmona to the southern city of Eilat by a high-speed rail that would eventually link to Saudi Arabia.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell’s unexplained freezeup while speaking in Congress this week is the latest reminder that America’s most powerful political leaders are much older than many in other democracies.
A record number of people on the U.S. government’s terrorist watchlist have been encountered at the southern border so far into this fiscal year, the latest federal government statistics show.
The Biden administration is working to find Chinese malware it believes is hidden within networks that control power grids, communications systems, and water supplies that support U.S. military bases, The New York Times reported.
Church groups say Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Vice President Sara Duterte are silencing Christian missionaries, priests, and bishops through “red-tagging tactics” for allegedly criticizing the government.
More than 50 Christian converts have been detained over the past week in five Iranian cities, and Christians said the number could rise.
The army of Niger, a key partner in the West’s fight against Islamist groups in west Africa, said Thursday it would offer no resistance against an armed coup, raising concerns among Western leaders.