The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has locked down the port of Yiwu City in East China, the world's largest wholesale hub, according to reports. China placed Yiwu, a city of 1.85 million people, under lockdown in response to a new outbreak of COVID-19. Meanwhile, the CCP has also placed the…

The government in Bangladesh has just hiked fuel prices by a record 51.2 percent, triggering widespread protests at gas stations across the South Asian country. Protests erupted following the decision, with thousands of people thronging gas stations before the increase went into effect. The price of gasoline increased to 130…

Democrat President Joe Biden's State Department has announced that U.S. taxpayers will be giving $99 million in funding to a United Nations agency that aids Palestinian refugees. The controversial United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) was formed in 1949 in response to…

Kazakhstan's government has resigned and a state of emergency has been declared in the central Asian country amid fiery unrest across the country, according to reports. Kazakhstan rarely sees large scale protests of any kind and the nation is generally regarded as an authoritarian-leaning state. Anger over fuel price increases…

Since the state of emergency in Ethiopia was initially declared two weeks ago, at least 1,000 people have been arrested so far, according to reports. As expected, most of the arrested individuals are ethnic Tigrayans who are accused of being sympathetic toward the Tigrayan rebel forces. Tigrayans are currently fighting…

UK authorities have confirmed that six new cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant have been found in Scotland. The discoveries are in addition to the three already detected in England. Two cases have been identified in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area and four are in the Lanarkshire area. Scotland's…