Frances Martel

Russian leader Vladimir Putin spent much of this month calling the leaders of allied communist nations in Latin America to discuss "boosting strategic cooperation in all fields," giving Moscow enhanced leverage in the Western Hemisphere as tensions with Washington mount.

Children's YouTube star Blippi -- a household staple for parents of young children boasting 14.8 million subscribers on the video hosting site -- debuted a video this weekend in partnership with NBC promoting the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.

Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council Secretary Oleksiy Danilov told reporters on Tuesday that Kyiv considers – and intelligence reports from the West agree – that "internal destabilization" caused by panic over a potential further Russian invasion is "the number one issue," not any

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A group of Chinese "business representatives" is planning an "expo" event in Kabul for April, the Chinese state-runGlobal Times revealed on Sunday, meant to help China profit off of business under the jihadist Taliban regime.

The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine on Monday dismissed the U.S. State Department's withdrawal of the families of U.S. embassy staff in Kyiv as "premature" given the lack of "drastic change" in tensions between the country and Russia.

Christian persecution in Cuba, a nation that was overwhelmingly Catholic before communism befell its population, has increased significantly in the past year due to the rising presence of Christian voices in the pro-democracy movement there, the Christian aid organization Open Doors found.

The South Korean tech company Samsung recently pulled an online advertisement showing a hijabi Muslim woman supporting her drag queen son afterintense criticism from residents of Singapore, the ad's target audience, Agence France-Press (AFP) reported on Friday.

The international aid organization Open Doors ranked Afghanistan the worst place in the world for Christians in 2021 on its World Watch List published this week, the first time the country appears at the top of the list and the first time in 20 years that Open Doors does not issue North Korea

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Islamist violence against Christians in Nigeria – estimated to be about half Christian – has reached catastrophic levels and places the country at risk of being home to a new Islamic State-style caliphate, David Curry, the CEO of the Christian Aid group Open Doors, told Breitbart News in an

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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) published a review of its Chinese uniform suppliers Wednesday asserting it has no evidence either is using slaves to manufacture the products the IOC is buying.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday rejected comments made the day before by President Joe Biden that appeared dismissive of a potential Russian invasion of his country, affirming in a statement to social media, "There are no minor incursions.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivered an emergency evening speech to his citizens on Wednesday night in response to a series of bizarre comments by his American counterpart Joe Biden that appeared to indicate the latter's certainty that Russia would invade Ukraine and assert America

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President Joe Biden expressed his frustration at being trapped in the White House on Wednesday, unable to travel and speak directly to the American people. The president spoke with reporters for 112 minutes during a rare solo press conference at

The State Post Bureau of China announced on Tuesday that it would pass all international mail entering the country through four rounds of "disinfection" to prevent the spread of Chinese coronavirus, despite most mainstream scientists agreeing that touching infected surfaces is not a main form

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The first major national political poll of 2022 revealed a significant drop in support for Australia's ruling party coalition and a slight lead for the opposition Labor Party on Tuesday, a trend that could doom Prime Minister Scott Morrison's re-election prospects.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with officials in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Wednesday, ignoring the mounting dangers facing American athletes at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, which President Joe Biden refused to boycott.

Cuba began a new round of mass trials against accused participants in the July 11 national protests on Monday after concluding a trial of 21 people, including four children, last week.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is facing fierce backlash concerning the Texas synagogue siege by an Islamic armed captor this past weekend.

The Communist Party of China admitted on Sunday that it had detected at least one case of the omicron variant of Chinese coronavirus in Beijing on Sunday, a less severe but more contagious iteration of the Wuhan disease.

Australia's federal treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, confirmed in an interview on Monday that tennis star Novak Djokovic received a valid Australian visa when he entered the country in early January, but claimed a "computer" was responsible for the error.