John Hayward

Masoud Pezeshkian, the “moderate” and “reformist” winner of Iran’s special election, vowed to continue supporting terrorism against Israel.

The Iranian Navy frigate Sahand sank at the port of Bandar Abbas on Tuesday, two days after it capsized during repairs and was rebalanced.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday he plans to invite Syrian dictator Bashar Assad to visit Ankara and mend relations that were strained by Turkey’s support for rebel groups during the long and bloody Syrian civil war.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Moscow on Monday for a visit that included a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

French-Israelis are telling French Jews to migrate to Israel after the tumultuous elections this weekend, which put a coalition of far-Left antisemitic parties and Muslims in control of France.

Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian defeated Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s protege Saeed Jalili on Friday to become Iran’s next president.

A militant group known as the Cooperative for the Development of the Congo (CODECO) attacked a gold mine linked to China on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Moscow on July 8 and 9 at the invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

South Korean officials reported that North Korea has ordered all of its overseas students to return home for “political indoctrination.”

The Russian government on Wednesday curtly rejected Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s offer to mediate ceasefire talks in the Ukraine war.

The Dagestan Muftiate, an Islamic religious organization in Russia’s Dagestan region, on Wednesday issued a temporary ban against full-face coverings for women at the request of Russian officials.

The Taiwanese coast guard said on Tuesday that Chinese forces seized a fishing boat operating near Taiwan’s outlying Kinmen Islands.

China’s Ministry of Commerce released data last week that showed foreign direct investment (FDI) declining for the 12th month in a row in May, slipping by 28.2 percent year-on-year. FDI hit a 30-year-low at the end of 2023.

Riots continued across Kenya a week after President William Ruto withdrew an unpopular bill that would have raised taxes by over $2.7 billion.

Vincent Clerc, CEO of Danish shipping giant Maersk, informed his customers that he expects Iran-backed Houthi terrorism to continue disrupting Red Sea shipping into the third quarter of 2024, and perhaps beyond.

Iranians who boycotted the first round of their sham election have second thoughts after the moderate candidate did better than expected.

The Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen have apparently decided music and singing will no longer be tolerated in areas under their control.

At least 87 people are feared dead after a stampede broke out at a religious event in the Hathras district of Uttar Pradesh in India.

The Chinese Communist regime in Beijing announced new regulations on Monday that will empower its officials to inspect smartphones and other personal electronics at will, including those belonging to foreign visitors.

Israel’s flag carrier El Al said Turkish officials refused to refuel an aircraft that made an emergency medical landing in Turkey.

The Arab League announced on Sunday that it no longer considers Lebanese Hezbollah to be a terrorist organization, even though Hezbollah has been showering Israeli civilians with rockets for months to support the Hamas terrorists in Gaza.

Australian Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil announced on Monday that visa fees for international students have been more than doubled – a transparent, if not explicit, attempt to clamp down on heavy migration, especially from China.

Courts in Hong Kong heard four liquidation suits against Chinese developers from their frustrated creditors last week, a record number of cases to hit the courts at the same time.

Iran’s “moderate” reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian, once dismissed as a dark horse with little chance of winning the emergency election to replace the late President Ebrahim Raisi, managed to become the frontrunner by about a million votes when the results were announced on Saturday. Pezeshkian could not get past the 50 percent threshold to win outright, so he will face hardliner Saeed Jalili in a runoff election on July 5.

Canada’s Globe and Mail dropped another bombshell on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s faltering government on Thursday, revealing that Trudeau’s former Defense Minister Harjit Sajjan prioritized rescuing Afghan Sikhs ahead of Canadians after the Taliban stormed Kabul in August 2021.

Russian state media gleefully reported that Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance put the “final nail” in his “political coffin.”

Spotify has deleted the pages of several Russian musicians who support Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, according to a report.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump said during the 2024 presidential debate on Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin would never have invaded Ukraine if he had remained in office.

The U.N. warned that the Taliban could cause overdose deaths from synthetic alternatives by shutting down opium production in Afghanistan.

Two of the “hardliner” candidates in Iran’s sham presidential “election” dropped out on Thursday, urging their followers to unite against the lone “moderate” among the four remaining candidates, Masoud Pezeshkian.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova says Moscow is preparing to sign a “big treaty with Iran.”

Bloomberg News on Tuesday published an exposé on the relationship between China’s Huawei telecom giant and Optica, a nonprofit scientific foundation based in Washington, DC.

Researchers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) warned on Tuesday that a new and deadly strain of monkeypox, or “mpox,” is spreading among “sex workers” in the conflict-prone eastern part of the country.

Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman traveled to Beijing on Tuesday to meet with Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun and Gen. Zhang Youxia, vice-chair of the Central Military Commission (CMC) and China’s highest-ranking uniformed official.

The Wall Street Journal denounced Russia’s secret espionage trial of its reporter Evan Gershkovich as a “travesty of justice.”

U.S. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said at a press briefing on Monday that the Biden administration believes “continued military action in Gaza just makes Israel weaker.”