John Hayward

South Africa on Monday declined to sign a commitment to end financing for coal production within 30 years, joining a growing list of countries that are refusing some of the United Nations’ most burdensome climate change demands - a list headed by the world’s worst polluter and largest burner of

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China’s state-run Global Times boasted on Monday - day seven of the COP26 climate conference in Scotland - that coal output has reached “the highest level in recent years,” so China’s vast array of carbon-spewing coal-fired power plants can “ensure energy supply security and residential heating

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Two weeks after Hong Kong’s Legislative Council (LegCo) passed a bill that gave local officials the power to ban movies “deemed contrary to the interests of national security,” China announced the premiere of its Korean War propaganda film The Battle at Lake Changjin in Hong Kong and Macao.

China’s state-run Global Times on Sunday was tremendously excited by the U.S. House of Representatives passing a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, because it expected the U.S. will quickly realize it no longer has the manufacturing capacity to build massive infrastructure projects without

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Satellite photos of the Taklamakan desert in central China published on Sunday revealed the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has constructed full-sized mockups of several U.S. warships, including an aircraft carrier, apparently for missile target practice.

The family of Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan, detained since May 2020 for her reporting from the epicenter of the global coronavirus pandemic in Wuhan, is warning that she is severely underweight from a hunger strike and “may not survive the coming cold winter.

Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) ripped through the Democrats' 2,300-page $1.8 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act before a vote by the entire U.S. House of Representatives on Friday night.

Saying that this is a "free country," UFC boss Dana White says he will not mandate that his fighters get a coronavirus vaccine.

Afghanistan’s independent Tolo News on Thursday reported widespread complaints of corruption at the Taliban-controlled passport department, including blatant demands for bribes in exchange for passport approval.

The Iranian regime organized massive rallies on Thursday to celebrate the anniversary of the 1979 seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran – the beginning of a 444-day hostage crisis touted as a great victory of the Islamic revolution in Iran.

China’s state-run Global Times on Thursday announced the opening of the Communist country’s “first multidisciplinary clinic for transgender children and adolescents” at the Children's Hospital of Fudan University in Shanghai.

An international organization called the Global Carbon Project published a report on Thursday that found China’s carbon emissions are projected to rise by four percent this year.

Chinese state media on Wednesday celebrated 20 years since China’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO).

Chinese state media on Thursday denounced a new Pentagon report on China’s growing nuclear arsenal as “speculative,” without actually denying anything in the report.

An Ohio school district that started the school year enforcing a mask mandate has now reversed course on forcing students to cover their faces. The move comes just two weeks after the board kicked former Ohio Treasurer and candidate for U.S.

Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, nominal Supreme Leader of the Taliban and its “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan” regime, made his first public appearance since the fall of Kabul on Sunday.

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping chose to address the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland, by video link instead of attending in person.

The United States is defeated and fleeing Asia due to the inherent strength of Islam and Muslim nations,MajorGeneralHosseinSalami, commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC), declared Friday.

China’s state-owned Jiangsu Satellite TV has a new talent competition called “2060” in which the competitors are computer-generated avatars controlled by virtual-reality (VR) headsets. The producers hope the show is successful enough to buy VR gear for all 200 members of the live audience, so

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Communist China’s contribution to the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, was an emissions “pledge” that actually proposed increasing China’s pollution output over the next few years.