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The Chinese Communist Party publication People’s Daily debuted an animated rap music video on Thursday celebrating the reforms of the National People’s Congress, warning viewers in cartoon form that “we must fully and strictly implement the party discipline.”

byFrances Martel12 Mar 2018, 2:56 PM PDT0

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China’s National People’s Congress approved the creation of the “National Supervisory Commission” on Sunday, an agency that allows Communist Party leader Xi Jinping unfettered power to inspect potentially “corrupt” members of the Communist Party.

byFrances Martel12 Mar 2018, 12:44 PM PDT0

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TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump is said to have told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week that he would not show zero flexibility in renegotiating the Iran nuclear deal with European nations.

byDeborah Danan12 Mar 2018, 12:34 PM PDT0

In this Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015 photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, meets with Chief Rabbi of Russia Berl Lazar, foreground, and head of the Federation of Jewish Communities Alexander Boroda, right, in Moscow's Kremlin, Russia. (Alexei Druzhinin/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

TEL AVIV – American Jewish groups over the weekend slammed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s insinuation that Jews may have meddled with the 2016 presidential election, comparing his remarks to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

byDeborah Danan12 Mar 2018, 12:33 PM PDT0

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Colombia’s conservative Democratic Center party took control of the upper house of Congress and captured the presidential nomination in a primary open to all right-wing political parties on Sunday, a sign Colombians have shifted rightward since President Juan Manuel Santos legalized the FARC terrorist group last year.

byFrances Martel12 Mar 2018, 12:01 PM PDT0

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has in recent weeks been highly critical of alleged abuse suffered by some of the two million Filipino workers in the Middle East

During a meeting with Philippine troops on Saturday, President Rodrigo Duterte advised military and police officers to remain silent if human rights investigators from the United Nations or International Criminal Court interview them.

byJohn Hayward12 Mar 2018, 11:34 AM PDT0

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s authoritarian government has deemed members of religious minorities, such as Christians and Jews, “enemies of the state,” an analyst tells Breitbart News, echoing the U.S. State Department.

byEdwin Mora12 Mar 2018, 10:52 AM PDT0

British Prime Minister Theresa May has said the nerve agent used in an attack on a former Russian spy in a British city has been positively identified as a type manufactured by the Russian Federation, and that the Russian Ambassador to the United Kingdom was summoned Monday.

byOliver JJ Lane12 Mar 2018, 10:26 AM PDT0

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (R) shakes hands with South Korean chief delegate Chung Eui-yong during their meeting in Pyongyang

North Korean officials and state-run media organs still have not confirmed that dictator Kim Jong-un’s offer to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump is genuine, a silence South Korean officials attributed to “caution” and Pyongyang needing time to “organize its stance.”

byJohn Hayward12 Mar 2018, 10:09 AM PDT0

A propaganda poster showing China's President Xi Jinping is pictured on a wall in Beijing on March 12, 2018. China's Xi Jinping on March 11 secured a path to rule indefinitely as parliament abolished presidential term limits, handing him almost total authority to pursue a vision of transforming the nation into an economic and military superpower. / AFP PHOTO / NICOLAS ASFOURI (Photo credit should read NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP/Getty Images)

Posters opposing Chinese President Xi Jinping reportedly began appearing this month in Western universities following China’s repeal of term limits that could have checked Xi’s power.

byBen Kew12 Mar 2018, 10:01 AM PDT0

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North Korean communist dictator Kim Jong-un is seeking a “peace treaty” with the United States over future military activity, according to South Korean officials.

byBen Kew12 Mar 2018, 9:07 AM PDT0

Members of the public local to the suspected nerve agent attack against a former Russian spy and his daughter have spoken out against the British government’s response to the incident, with one describing the failure to communicate with the public about the risks “diabolical”.

byOliver JJ Lane12 Mar 2018, 9:03 AM PDT0

Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) military police members demonstrate with their flags and others bearing the portrait of Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan in the Kurdish town of Al-Muabbadah in the northeastern part of Hassakah province on February 24, 2018, denouncing the Turkish military operation against YPG forces in the northwestern Kurdish enclave of Afrin. / AFP PHOTO / Delil souleiman (Photo credit should read DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP/Getty Images)

Contents: Socialists and feminists to act as ‘human shields’ protecting Kurds from Turkey in Afrin Syria; US cuts back operations in Incirlik as Turkey-NATO relations sour

byJohn J. Xenakis12 Mar 2018, 7:40 AM PDT0

AMMAN, JORDAN - JULY 25: A Groom listens to his veiled bride in a mass wedding July 25, 2003 in Amman, Jordan. One hundred and four brides and grooms made the knot in a mass wedding organized by the Islamic society of (al-Afaf) for philanthropic wedding, celebrating with their families and friends in a non-mixed party between males and females. (Photo by Salah Malkawi/Getty Images)

TEL AVIV — A verbal conflict erupted during a television program between Egyptian member of Parliament Gada Ajami and Egyptian Salafist cleric Waleed Ismail over a bill presented to the Egyptian Parliament that would make it illegal for a man to marry a second woman without the knowledge of his first wife.

byAli Waked12 Mar 2018, 7:38 AM PDT0

Palestinian Hamas top leader Ismail Haniyeh, gives a speech during a press conference in his office in Gaza City, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018. Haniyeh says that U.S. Vice President Mike Pence’s tour in Israel was “unwelcome,” adding that his speech before the Israeli parliament a day earlier “proves the USA has a strategic alliance with the Zionist entity.” (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)

TEL AVIV — Hamas is furious over the poor quality of goods entering the Gaza Strip in recent weeks, a source in the terrorist organization told Breitbart Jerusalem.

byAli Waked12 Mar 2018, 7:38 AM PDT0

NEW YORK — Jonathan M. Winer, the Obama State Department official who acknowledged regularly interfacing and exchanging information with the author of the largely discredited 35-page anti-Trump dossier, signed disclosure forms for his former firm to represent a Russian billionaire

byAaron Klein12 Mar 2018, 7:37 AM PDT0

Steve Bannon continues his tour of Europe, energizing the anti-establishment populist base, and the mainstream media cannot help but admit their admiration for his abilities, despite their dislike of his aims.

byThomas D. Williams, Ph.D.12 Mar 2018, 7:08 AM PDT0

Israeli politician Moshe Feiglin poses for a portrait in an office Sunday Jan. 29, 2012, in the coastal town of Caesarea. Feiglin, a hardline Jewish settler who supports cash incentives to empty the West Bank and Gaza of Palestinians is running against Israel's prime minister in Tuesday's ruling Likud party's primary, a race he has little chance of winning but one in which he could deliver an embarrassing blow to the country's leader. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

It is time for Israel to formally abandon the so-called two-state solution as well as the concept of a Palestinian state and instead push for the complete Israeli annexation of the West Bank and retaking of the Gaza Strip, Israeli

byAaron Klein12 Mar 2018, 6:46 AM PDT0

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The IDF launched a large-scale General Staff exercise on Sunday to drill emergency preparedness in all of the military’s commands.

byBreitbart Jerusalem12 Mar 2018, 3:39 AM PDT0

In this Oct. 1, 2017 file photo, Pope Francis poses for selfies with migrants at a regional migrant center, in Bologna, Italy. In a message issued by the Vatican Friday, Nov. 24, 2017, Francis is decrying those whipping up fear of migrants for political gain, and is urging people to view global migration as a peace-building opportunity and not as a threat. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, files)

One week after Italian elections saw a major shift toward anti-establishment parties, Pope Francis has decried politics based on fear of migrants.

byThomas D. Williams, Ph.D.12 Mar 2018, 3:10 AM PDT0

In this picture taken on Sunday, Sept. 21, 2008, Iranian Revolutionary Guards members march during a parade ceremony, marking the 28th anniversary of the onset of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988), in front of the mausoleum of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran. Speaking to Arab students at Carnegie Mellon's Doha campus, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday, Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps appears to have gained so much power that it effectively is supplanting the Iranian government. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

A senior Iranian commander has warned Israel and the United States that it cannot afford the costs of a confrontation with the Islamic Republic.

byBreitbart Jerusalem12 Mar 2018, 3:07 AM PDT0

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the Economic Club of Washington, Wednesday, March 7, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly told cabinet ministers on Sunday that there is still no “concrete” US peace plan.

byBreitbart Jerusalem12 Mar 2018, 2:21 AM PDT0

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Top Israeli and Saudi Arabian officials reportedly held a series of secret meetings in Cairo last week, ahead of US President Donald Trump’s expected unveiling of his long-awaited Middle East peace plan.

byBreitbart Jerusalem12 Mar 2018, 1:35 AM PDT0

David Letterman sat down with Pakistan-born Malala Yousafzai for a new episode of his Netflix series ‘My Next Guest Needs No Introduction’ which debuted on International Women’s Day, to discuss her activism and the ‘really tragic’ leadership of America under President Donald Trump.

byAdelle Nazarian11 Mar 2018, 3:06 PM PDT0

FILE - In this March 31, 2017, file photo, National Trade Council adviser Peter Navarro waits for President Donald Trump for an event in the Oval Office at the White House. Navarro signed on with the Trump campaign as a trade adviser, only to see his contrarian views marginalized when he arrived at the White House. Now Navarro and his protectionist trade policies are on the rise as his chief ideological rival, Gary Cohn, heads for the exit. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Peter Navarro, the trade representative for President Donald Trump, is rising in the post-Gary Cohn White House thanks to his militant economic response to China’s quest for global domination — much to the chagrin of “free trade” establishment Republicans.

byBreitbart News11 Mar 2018, 1:57 PM PDT0

Michael Pillsbury, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute and author of The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower, described the Trump Administration’s implementation of tariffs on aluminum and steel imports as insufficient measures towards curbing China’s goal of displacing U.S. geopolitical global dominance.

byRobert Kraychik11 Mar 2018, 1:17 PM PDT0

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the Security Conference in Munich, Germany, Friday, Feb. 16, 2018. (Sven Hoppe/dpa via AP)

With the Israeli political scene galloping toward a snap vote, State Prosecutor Shai Nitzan launched a fierce defense of the justice system on Sunday, warning Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that victory at the ballot box would not clear his name of serious corruption allegations.

byBreitbart Jerusalem11 Mar 2018, 12:07 PM PDT0

China and Djibouti have agreed to form a 'strategic partnership'

Contents: General warns of US security danger if China acquires Djibouti seaport; China continues influence through ‘debt trap’ policies

byJohn J. Xenakis11 Mar 2018, 10:55 AM PDT0

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The Vatican is looking to change people’s perspective on mass migration by highlighting positive stories to replace the negative accounts that dominate the media. Jesuit Father Michael Czerny, the co-secretary of the Vatican’s department for migrants and refugees, said that

byThomas D. Williams, Ph.D.11 Mar 2018, 9:16 AM PDT0

NOVOSIBIRSK, RUSSIA - FEBRUARY 8: (RUSSIA OUT) Russian President Vladimir Putin makes a speech during an awarding ceremony for scientists on February 8, 2018 in Novosibirsk, Russia. Vladimir Putin, who is widely expected to be re-elected during the Presidential Elections 2018 planned for March 18, is on a trip to the Siberian city of Novosibirsk. (Photo by Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images)

Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested to NBC News’ Megyn Kelly last week that Jews might have been to blame for alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election in the United States.

byJoel B. Pollak11 Mar 2018, 7:00 AM PDT0

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Innocent people across the European Union (EU) will continue to die and suffer because of terror attacks “for years to come”, the EU’s Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs, and Citizenship has said.

byLiam Deacon11 Mar 2018, 5:59 AM PDT0

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Russian president Vladimir Putin has said he “couldn’t care less” about claims made in the United States that he ordered interference in the 2016 presidential election.

byBen Kew10 Mar 2018, 1:36 PM PDT0

A top court in Pakistan recently issued a verdict that deems citizens who refuse to identify their religious faith guilty of “betraying the State” and “exploiting the Constitution,” which has established Islam as the country’s religion and the Quran as a collection of guiding principles behind all laws in the nation.

byEdwin Mora10 Mar 2018, 10:48 AM PDT0

Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change is urging environmental activists to address the “gendered impacts” of climate change, especially its effects on women and girls. In a recent post on Twitter, Catherine McKenna, the 47-year-old Trudeau appointee from Canada’s

byThomas D. Williams, Ph.D.10 Mar 2018, 10:46 AM PDT0

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TEL AVIV – Jews use the blood of non-Jews to bake Hamentashen pastries for Purim, a former Hamas official charged in an article published on Tuesday, the eve of the Jewish holiday.

byDeborah Danan10 Mar 2018, 9:59 AM PDT0

Boko Haram was named in the latest Global Terrorism Index as

Nigeria’s former minister of information said the removal of the three governors in the northeastern part of the country that houses Boko Haram’s primary stronghold would allow the nation’s military to annihilate the jihadist organization once and for all.

byEdwin Mora10 Mar 2018, 9:07 AM PDT0

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un -- shown here in an undated picture released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on December 3, 2017 -- has sparked international fury with his dogged pursuit of a weapons program

Contents: Kenya’s bitter rivals, Kenyatta and Odinga, become ‘brothers’ as Tillerson arrives; The Donald Trump – Kim Jong-un meeting hinges on a decision that Kim has already made

byJohn J. Xenakis10 Mar 2018, 8:28 AM PDT0

(GERMANY OUT) Die Hand einer jungen Frau zieht ein Kondom zur Verhütung einer Schwangerschaft aus der Tasche ihre Jeans (Photo by Wodicka/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

A Nigerian High Court has ordered manufacturers of condoms to warn users that it cannot guarantee 100 percent safe sex and to add the phrase, “Total abstinence or faithfulness is the best option.”

byThomas D. Williams, Ph.D.10 Mar 2018, 7:03 AM PDT0

A Cuban-American human rights group has documented dozens of Twitter accounts, allegedly belonging to young Cubans on the island, posting pro-communist propaganda and using photos of actors and models as their photos.

byFrances Martel9 Mar 2018, 7:46 PM PDT0

Howard Kohr AIPAC (Molly Riley / AFP / Getty)

When America Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) CEO Howard Kohr, addressing AIPAC’s Policy Conference this past week, called for establishing a Palestinian Arab state, he inadvertently exposed a decades-old myth: that AIPAC only supports all policies of the Israeli government.

byMorton A. Klein9 Mar 2018, 5:58 PM PDT0

US President Donald Trump stunned the world by accepting an invitation to meet Kim Jong Un before the end of May

In an editorial published by the state-run Global Times on Friday, China refused to be “marginalized” as U.S. President Donald Trump considers direct talks with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.

byJohn Hayward9 Mar 2018, 4:37 PM PDT0

In December, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte told human rights groups criticising his deadly anti-drug war to

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein cited Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s “disgraceful” use of the “foulest of language” against U.N. representatives on Friday and said Duterte “needs to submit himself to some sort of psychiatric evaluation.”

byJohn Hayward9 Mar 2018, 4:13 PM PDT0

In this Dec. 12, 2017 photo, children watch their free meal arrive to be served at a soup kitchen sponsored by the opposition in Caracas, Venezuela. Venezuela's opposition leaders are reinventing themselves, meeting their country's growing number of poor in their own neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Around half of Venezuelan children are now missing school due to hunger amid a devastating humanitarian crisis, El Universal has revealed.

byBen Kew9 Mar 2018, 4:00 PM PDT0

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Outgoing People’s Bank of China governor Zhou Xiaochuan held a press briefing on Thursday in which he dropped a few hints about the launch of China’s new digital currency, known as “DCEP” for Digital Currency Electronic Payment.

byJohn Hayward9 Mar 2018, 3:36 PM PDT0

A video grab dated 19 June 2001 shows members of Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda, or 'The Base', organization training with AK-47 (Kalashnikov) sub-machine-guns in a video tape said to have been prepared and released by bin Laden himself. The United States was on alert on 23 June as reports came from the Middle East that bin Laden's fighters were preparing to hit US and Israeli interests around the world. Copies of the video tape, which shows him as well as Al-Qaeda guerrilla fighters training at their al-Farouq camp in Afghanistan, have been circulated to a limited number of Islamists. AFP PHOTO/Yasser Al-ZAYYAT (Photo credit should read /AFP/Getty Images)

The “tens of thousands” of jihadists loyal to al-Qaeda have eclipsed their Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) rivals’ influence, reach, manpower, and cohesion, reports the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) think tank, echoing warnings from other analysts.

byEdwin Mora9 Mar 2018, 3:22 PM PDT0

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