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China is preparing new rules that would restrict foreign access to its most advanced AI models at the same time that America is moving to address foreign access to controlled American technology through cloud computing.

Belgian prosecutors this week announced the arrest of a Canadian intern for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) who was accused of espionage.

Anthony Fauci is a “lying disgrace,” said Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), who was the first to warn that China lied and that the coronavirus likely stemmed from the Wuhan lab.

The Defense Ministry of Kuwait confirmed that Iran bombed a Chinese company in the country, killing an employee.

Russian defense and security firms have obtained over 50,000 sensitive goods and components made in the U.K. and the E.U. through supply chains in India, a report states.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) talked about the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and how he believes the lab leak theory was incorrectly dismissed by people on the left and stated that “we’re never going

Southwestern Japan suffered an earthquake of magnitude 7.1 on Tuesday, causing at least 18 fatalities and 62 injuries.

Iran is reportedly anticipating the first delivery installment of 400 Chinese-made shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles within a matter of weeks, the fruit of a deal worth over $60 million arranged by a Hong Kong-based intermediary.

The Korean supergroup BTS looked at this new category and knew exactly what the Grammys were doing — creating a ghetto for Asian artists. In protest, BTS announced on Wednesday that the seven-member group will snub the Grammys by not submitting their music for any kind of Grammy consideration.  

A study by the Ukrainian human rights group Truth Hounds highlighted by the U.K. Guardian on Tuesday indicates that North Korea and Russia have nearly completed a bridge between them whose construction began after the signing of a “mutual defense” agreement that led to North Korean boots on the ground in Europe.

The Central Asian nation of Tajikistan is majority Muslim, but its government has launched a crackdown against Islamic headscarves.

A powerful earthquake registering at 6.8 magnitude — 7.0 in the most affected areas — devastated Kumamoto prefecture, Japan, on Tuesday, resulting in widespread fires, building damage, and, in one case, preceding an explosion tearing the facade off of a shopping mall.

Former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) head Anthony Fauci privately admitted that scientists suspected the coronavirus likely stemmed from a lab leak as he publicly blasted it as a wild conspiracy theory, revelations from his diary showcase.

Neuroscientist Qiu Zilong of Shanghai Jiao Tong University is under investigation following the death of a six-year-old girl who was receiving gene-editing therapy during a human trial under his supervision. 

The Vatican announced recently that it had approved the appointment of Joseph Chang Yanfeng as bishop of Chifeng, a diocese in Inner Mongolia, China, that had not had a bishop in two decades.

A national security emergency is quickly approaching due to the U.S.’s dependency on China’s supply of medical-grade nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR), with Blue Star NBR CEO Scott Maier making an urgent plea to the Trump administration before time runs out.

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” The Atlantic Staff Writer David Brooks said that he is glad that there haven’t been repercussions for China over its actions in the 2020 election “because the China charges were bogus, and we need to have

Rep. John Moolenaar, chair of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, on Thursday criticized Ford Motor Company for partnering with Chinese automaker Geely to produce electric vehicles.

Survivors of communist regimes described imprisonment, religious persecution, economic devastation, political indoctrination, and the loss of basic freedoms during a House Republican roundtable held July 21, while warning Americans against repeating the policies and ideas they said harmed their home countries.

Iran’s top diplomat Abbas Araghchi condemned the “international community” on Friday for failing to support his country against the United States, addressing a foreign ministers meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) that he later claimed fully backed Tehran in the current conflict.

During an interview aired on Thursday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “The Hill,” Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said that President Donald Trump “fully understands that the Chin[ese] purchasing of our farmland is a significant problem.” But also “didn’t want to shut any

Existing Chinese vehicle manufacturing plants in Spain have turned the country into a “gateway” for Chinese vehicles into Europe, local outlets stated.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry pronounced Beijing “deeply concerned” on Thursday over the ongoing war between Iran and its proxies and the United States in the Middle East, demanding all parties “remain calm.”

U.S. lawmakers accused China of using United Nations peacekeeping missions as opportunities for espionage.

China’s state-run Global Times on Monday published a gloating editorial about “shifting global talent flows” that are leading a “growing number of Chinese scientific and technological talents opting to return home” after having emigrated to the United States.

Russia had a brief meeting with Marco Rubio Thursday morning, where Moscow said it delivered a message condemning American arms sales.

Dramatic video footage shows a leopard bursting into a liquor store in India and attacking an employee as he desperately tries to flee, before the wild animal begins sniffing around the empty shop, knocking bottles off a shelf.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) published a report on Tuesday that found transnational gangs looted at least $88 billion from Southeast Asia in 2025, using a wide variety of telephone and cyber scams, often employing slave labor at notorious “scam centers” that resemble prison camps.

Pakistan reportedly asked the U.S. for a $10 billion “bilateral exchange stabilization support facility” to cope with disruptions from the Iran crisis.

The Hungarian government on Monday announced an investigation into a major investment deal with Chinese auto giant BYD, on suspicion that former Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto might have had a conflict of interest.

The State Dept. detailed China’s intelligence-gathering operations against the U.S. taking place in Cuban facilities.

Far-left commentator Hasan Piker berated moderate liberals at a College Democrats of America (CDA) convention in Washington, DC, while wearing a suit in the style of Chinese dictator Mao Zedong.

India’s capital of New Delhi was plunged into chaos on Monday as a huge protest by the “Cockroach Party” of disaffected young people shut down city streets and triggered a massive police response.

During an interview aired on Friday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “The Hill,” Special Assistant to the President and White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly responded to a question on what consequences China will face for meddling in American elections by

National security experts warned about threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party after President Donald Trump’s White House released declassified intelligence records concerning alleged Chinese influence operations and vulnerabilities in the United States election system.