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Peruvian courts are weighing whether to prevent Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, who resigned as president on ..
Peruvian courts are weighing whether to prevent Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, who resigned as president on Wednesday, from leaving the country following multiple allegations of corruption, including one linking him to the disgraced Brazilian firm Odebrecht.
byFrances Martel22 Mar 2018, 2:17 PM PDT0
Comedian Bill Murray’s clumsy attempt to glorify the Parkland gun control activists by comparing them to Vietnam protesters was shockingly ignorant and insensitive for an elderly man who was actually alive during the Vietnam War aftermath and the Cambodian genocide. The truth of that history provides a powerful argument against gun control fantasies.
byJohn Hayward22 Mar 2018, 2:06 PM PDT0
A Turkish singer will spend ten months in prison after being convicted this week of the crime of “insulting the president.” Zuhal Olcay stood accused of changing the lyrics to one of her hits songs during a concert to condemn President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s policies.
byFrances Martel22 Mar 2018, 1:34 PM PDT0
The education ministry of Saudi Arabia has promised to purge every trace of Muslim Brotherhood ideology from textbooks and fire anyone sympathetic to the group who works for the school system.
byJohn Hayward22 Mar 2018, 12:02 PM PDT0
The Chinese Communist Party announced this week the creation of a universal propaganda arm named “Voice of China,” which the regime hopes will “ensure its voice is heard loud and clear around the world.”
byFrances Martel22 Mar 2018, 11:53 AM PDT0
Many jihadists organizations who plan attacks in Pakistan to target U.S. military troops and their allies in neighboring Afghanistan are still enjoying sanctuary in the country despite Islamabad’s claims that it has eradicated all “organized” terror havens within its borders, Breitbart News has learned.
byEdwin Mora22 Mar 2018, 11:40 AM PDT0
An editorial in China’s state-run Global Times this week called for a national strategy to displace the United States as the world leader in artificial intelligence technology.
byJohn Hayward22 Mar 2018, 11:26 AM PDT0
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is reportedly pushing ahead with the first repatriation of an accused Saudi jihadist held at the American military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
byEdwin Mora22 Mar 2018, 10:48 AM PDT0
WASHINGTON, DC — The struggling socialist Venezuelan regime, a global hub for crime-terror convergence, has been harboring criminal and terrorist groups such as Iran’s proxy Hezbollah, Chinese Triads, the Russian Mafia, and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), an expert on Latin America told lawmakers.
byEdwin Mora22 Mar 2018, 10:02 AM PDT0
President Donald Trump is set to announce tariffs and investment restrictions aimed at convincing China to halt practices the U.S. believes are a form of economic aggression, according to White House officials.
byJohn Carney22 Mar 2018, 9:15 AM PDT0
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) claimed responsibility for a heinous attack in the Afghan capital of Kabul Wednesday that killed up to 33 and injured 65 others while they were celebrating the Persian new year.
byEdwin Mora22 Mar 2018, 8:47 AM PDT0
RAMALLAH – A series of recent health scares have raised concerns about octogenarian President Mahmoud Abbas, reviving anxiety about a potentially chaotic succession battle bound to further weaken the Palestinian cause.
byBreitbart Jerusalem22 Mar 2018, 8:35 AM PDT0
Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accused Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei of stealing the people’s money to amass his fortune of approximately $800 billion toman, or $190 billion dollars.
byAdelle Nazarian22 Mar 2018, 7:45 AM PDT0
“If we keep going the way we’re going, we will be an agricultural colony for China,” said Curtis Ellis, praising President Trump’s tariff crackdown on China’s trade abuses, during a Wednesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with co-hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.
byRobert Kraychik22 Mar 2018, 7:38 AM PDT0
The United States announced this week it will provide $2.5 million in aid to Venezuelan refugees who have fled their country to Colombia amid a deepening political and humanitarian crisis in their homeland.
byBen Kew22 Mar 2018, 7:33 AM PDT0
Contents: Massive earth fissure suddenly opens up in mid-Kenya, signaling an eventual split in all of Africa; How China would lose a war with the United States; ISIS-linked terrorists in Afghanistan kill 32 in bombing of Shia Shrine in Kabul
byJohn J. Xenakis22 Mar 2018, 6:17 AM PDT0
Two Hamas security force members were killed Thursday as they carried out a raid that resulted in the arrest of a suspect in a recent bomb attack against the Palestinian prime minister, officials said.
byBreitbart Jerusalem22 Mar 2018, 5:27 AM PDT0
An Israeli soccer player and the captain of the Iranian national team took to the Internet to show that the people of Iran and the people of Israel do not harbor hate.
byBreitbart Jerusalem22 Mar 2018, 4:49 AM PDT0
Two Jordanians were sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in jail with hard labor for planning attacks on the Amman embassies of Russia, Iran and Israel.
byBreitbart Jerusalem22 Mar 2018, 4:17 AM PDT0
Youth in the United Kingdom are among the least religious in post-Christian Europe, with some 70 percent self-identifying as having “no religion,” according to a new report.
byThomas D. Williams, Ph.D.22 Mar 2018, 4:11 AM PDT0
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that Israel will prevent its enemies from obtaining nuclear weapons after its military admitted it carried out a 2007 air raid against a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor.
byBreitbart Jerusalem22 Mar 2018, 2:58 AM PDT0
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Tehran has neutralized US plans in the Middle East, in a speech Wednesday marking the Persian New Year.
byBreitbart Jerusalem22 Mar 2018, 2:11 AM PDT0
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman reportedly bragged to a Middle Eastern leader that he had White House adviser Jared Kushner “in his pocket.” Kushner may have also violated federal law if he gave bin Salman classified information from President Donald Trump’s Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) without Trump’s authorization to help bin Salman put his political rivals under house arrest.
byTony Lee21 Mar 2018, 10:32 PM PDT0
China’s only operational aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday following a heated nationalist speech from President Xi Jinping in which he warned force will be used to thwart Taiwanese independence if necessary.
byJohn Hayward21 Mar 2018, 6:34 PM PDT0
Brazilians living in the border state of Roraima violently protested against the recent influx of Venezuelan refugees fleeing their country this week by attacking and robbing them.
byBen Kew21 Mar 2018, 6:00 PM PDT0
WASHINGTON, DC – The Iranian regime released Imam Hussein al-Shirazi, the son of the famous Iranian Shiite Ayatollah Sadiq al-Shirazi, on Sunday after detaining him for 13 days.
byAdelle Nazarian21 Mar 2018, 5:43 PM PDT0
38-year-old Ali Sadr Hashemi Nejad was charged in U.S. federal court on Tuesday for his involvement in a $115 million scheme to evade U.S. sanctions against Iran, using a Venezuelan construction project as an instrument.
byJohn Hayward21 Mar 2018, 4:20 PM PDT0
On Monday, a major American Jewish leader, Ronald Lauder, published a call to arms against Israel in the New York Times.
byCaroline Glick21 Mar 2018, 4:04 PM PDT0
Four-time New York Times bestselling investigative journalist Peter Schweizer has garnered a reputation for unearthing never-before-revealed facts about how political elites enrich themselves. Here are five China-related revelations Schweizer exposes in his new book “Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends.”
byRebecca Mansour21 Mar 2018, 3:52 PM PDT0
Under the hashtag #ConfirmGrenell, conservative activists have demanded an end to the Senate block against President Donald Trump’s appointment of Richard Grenell as ambassador to Germany.
byCharlie Nash21 Mar 2018, 3:00 PM PDT0
After barely a year and a half in office, centrist businessman Pedro Pablo Kuczynski presented his resignation from the presidency of Peru to the nation’s legislature on Wednesday following a scandal involving videos purporting to show him discussing the purchase of votes.
byFrances Martel21 Mar 2018, 12:38 PM PDT0
The government of Ecuador has announced that it will pull funding from the regional left-wing propaganda network TeleSUR.
byBen Kew21 Mar 2018, 12:07 PM PDT0
The Islamic State affiliate Boko Haram released dozens of girls kidnapped from a secondary school in Dapchi, northern Nigeria, on Wednesday on the condition that their parents keep them from going back to school and marry them off, instead.
byFrances Martel21 Mar 2018, 10:39 AM PDT0
As the Trump administration strongly considers the possibility of withdrawing from the disastrous, Obama-era nuclear accord with Iran, Israel sent a clear warning to Tehran on Tuesday by officially confirming the IDF was behind the 2007 airstrikes in northeastern Syria that destroyed the country’s nuclear reactor.
byAaron Klein21 Mar 2018, 10:25 AM PDT0
The Turkish news outlet T24 reported on Wednesday that the owner of the Doğan Media Group, which controls several of Turkey’s last remaining media outlets that do not openly support President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, agreed to sell the group to Demirören Holding, owned by a businessman who maintains friendly ties with the president.
byFrances Martel21 Mar 2018, 10:10 AM PDT0
Medical organizations in Kenya condemned a government plan Monday to import doctors from Cuba to address the nation’s vast shortage of medical professionals, citing that more than one thousand ready-to-work Kenyan doctors are still unemployed in the country.
byFrances Martel21 Mar 2018, 9:24 AM PDT0
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Msgr. Dario Viganò as head of the Vatican’s communications department following a week of controversy and outrage surrounding a doctored photograph of a letter from emeritus Pope Benedict XVI, which was distributed to journalists.
byThomas D. Williams, Ph.D.21 Mar 2018, 9:12 AM PDT0
In the lead-up to the commemoration of Holy Week and Easter, Pope Francis has urged Christians to see the crucifix not as an piece of jewelry but rather as a profound symbol of faith in Jesus.
byThomas D. Williams, Ph.D.21 Mar 2018, 8:11 AM PDT0
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) reportedly signed off on several articles penned by an “Obama holdover” that explicitly challenged President Trump’s anti-Iran policy objectives, according to Conservative Review (CR).
byEdwin Mora21 Mar 2018, 7:51 AM PDT0
TEL AVIV – The IDF confirmed Wednesday that it carried out the 2007 airstrike in northeastern Syria that destroyed a nuclear reactor, ending a decade of secrecy over one the most daring military operations in recent history.
byDeborah Danan21 Mar 2018, 7:48 AM PDT0
Turkish President Reccip Erdogan has revealed that he will instruct his forces to invade the Iraqi province of Sinjar if it remains a Kurdish stronghold.
byBen Kew21 Mar 2018, 6:39 AM PDT0
Contents: Xi Jinping invokes the 1840s Opium Wars to justify military action for China’s ‘rejuvenation’; Xi Jinping stokes China’s nationalism with harsh threats to Taiwan and Hong Kong
byJohn J. Xenakis21 Mar 2018, 5:56 AM PDT0
White House officials leaked details of President Donald Trump’s phone call with Vladimir Putin, revealing that he ignored advice from his national security advisors not to congratulate the Russian president for winning his election.
byCharlie Spiering21 Mar 2018, 5:01 AM PDT0
The Palestinian Authority may study the possibility of declaring the Gaza Strip a rogue area, solidifying the split between the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
byBreitbart Jerusalem21 Mar 2018, 3:15 AM PDT0
Rockets fired on a market in a government-controlled neighborhood of Damascus on Tuesday killed 35 people and wounded more than 20 others, Syrian state-run media said, marking one of the highest death tolls in a single attack targeting the capital.
byBreitbart Jerusalem21 Mar 2018, 2:47 AM PDT0