Gabrielle Reyes

Tokyo Olympic organizers are scrambling to clean the local Odaiba Marine Park before its use as an official Olympic venue starting July 26 after local residents and Olympic athletes complained this week the park and its surrounding bay emit a "foul odor," Australia's Daily Telegraph reported

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Saudia Arabia will ban all citizens and residents unvaccinated against the Chinese coronavirus from entering nearly all public spaces starting August 1, the Kingdom’s Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs announced Tuesday.

Record floods in China's central Henan province have killed at least 25 people as of Wednesday and forced a the evacuation of an additional 200,000 people in the provincial capital, Zhengzhou, local government officials said.

U.S. President Joe Biden will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky "not in July, but, in August," according to recent statements by George Kent, the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) reported

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Muslims participating in the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, known as Hajjthrew stones at a wall representing the devil in Mecca on Tuesday as part of the ritual.

A protest in Cyprus against government measures forcing all citizens to present a Chinese coronavirus "vaccine pass" to enter nearly all public spaces on the island turned violent this weekend after some participants attacked a local TV station that supported the state-mandated badges.

The Philippines ruling party PDP-Laban expelled Boxing legend and Philippine Senator Manny Pacquiao as itspresident this weekend in what observers view as a backlash against Pacquiao’s recent criticism of Philippine President and PDP-Laban chairman Rodrigo Duterte.

All Saudi Arabian citizens traveling outside the Kingdom from August 9 must receive two Chinese coronavirus vaccine doses before departing, Saudi Arabia's interior ministry announced Monday.

Lebanon's Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri resigned on Thursday after trying and failing to form a government for the struggling nation over the past nine months, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported on Friday.

A mother in Durban, South Africa, threw her two-year-old daughter off of a high-rise tower Tuesday in an effort to save the toddler's life after a fire broke out in the building, Reuters reported.

Some Colombian nationals arrested for suspected involvement in the murder of Haitian President Jovenel Moise this month received U.S. government-funded military training, Voice of America reported on Friday.

Ukrainian PresidentVolodymyr Zelensky offered to help Ukraine become a "bridge to Europe" for China during a phone conversation with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Tuesday, the Kyiv Post reportedWednesday.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was diagnosed with a “partial intestinal obstruction” on Wednesday after he was admitted to a hospitalfollowing ten straight days of hiccups, the Brazilian newspaper O Tempo reported.

A video shared by official social media accounts of local Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials this week argues China could "use nuclear bombs continuously" against Japan if the country attempts to defend Taiwan from Chinese military aggression,NewsweekreportedWednesday.

The vice minister of Cuba's interior ministryresigned after allegedly questioning the ministry's security response to anti-government protests across the Communist-ruled island starting Sunday, Spain's ABC newspaper reported on Wednesday.

Hundreds of Chinese fishing vessels illegally occupying the Philippines' Spratly Islands are allegedly dumping vast amounts of human waste into the surrounding South China Sea causing an ecological "catastrophe" that threatens the health of local marine ecosystems and fishing stocks, Reuters

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Afghanistan's Taliban "won't easily fall into the trap" allegedly laid by U.S. media to coerce the Sunni Islam-based terror group into publicly denouncing China's genocide against Muslim ethnic minorities in China's westernmost region of Xinjiang, China's state-run Global Times argued Monday.

A fire ripped through the Chinese coronavirus ward of a hospital in Nasiriyah, Iraq, on Monday, killing at least 92 people, Iraq’s state news agency reported Tuesday.

Cuba's state-run telecom monopoly ETECSA restricted access to major social media platforms and messaging apps on Monday as part of temporary internet shutdowns meant to quell anti-government protests across the island, the Associated Press (AP) reported on Tuesday.

The government of northern India's Uttar Pradesh state unveiled draft legislation on Sunday proposing a "two-child" policy that would punish couples who choose to have more than two children, India's NDTV news sitereported on Monday.