The Communist Chinese government has deployed tanks to prevent its disillusioned people from withdrawing their savings from crisis-embattled banks. Shocking video taken in what is believed to be Rizhao in Shandong Province shows a line of tanks surrounding a local bank branch to prevent disgruntled citizens from withdrawing their money, which the government is now classifying as “investment products,”... 

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will resign, effective next week, local media reported on Saturday. Rajapaksa earlier left his residence in Colombo as thousands of protesters laid siege to the compound. His resignation was announced by Sri Lankan news outlet Newsfirst, which cited Speaker of Parliament Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena. It came hours after Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe declared... 

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot dead during a speech in the city of Nara on Friday morning, several media outlets reported. Security personnel on the spot immediately ran forward and wrestled down the perpetrator who could be arrested immediately. Gunman Tetsuya Yamagami, 41, shot Abe twice with a home-made shotgun made out of two pieces of pipe attached to a wooden board, with... 

Over 14,300 people have been hospitalized with heatstroke in Japan from June 27 to July 3 while 27 people have died as a record-breaking heat wave continues to persist in Japan, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency of the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs said on Tuesday. Up to 2,030 people were hospitalized in Tokyo, 1,383 in Saitama Prefecture, 1,036 in Aichi, 875 in Kanagawa, 821 in Chiba,... 

Uzbekistan declares a state of emergency as violence erupts in its northwest autonomous region over draft constitution amendments Massive protests engulfed northwest Uzbekistan on Friday over the Central Asian nation’s plan to revoke key rights from its autonomous region, Karakalpakstan, amid constitutional changes. The standoff between police and protesters turned violent, with videos on social... 

Japan has passed a ‘woke’ new law making “online insults” punishable by a hefty prison sentence. The bill, passed by the Japanese government on Monday, has amended the country’s penal code and will take effect this summer. According to the Japan Times, the amendment comes as a response to the death of professional wrestler and Netflix’s Terrance House reality star Hana Kimura. Globalnews.ca... 

A senior US official has vowed a “forceful response” should North Korea conduct a nuclear test. The response follows Pyongyang’s latest ballistic missile launch over the weekend, which was matched by a similar show of force from Washington and Seoul. Speaking to reporters after a meeting with her South Korean counterpart, Deputy US Secretary of State Wendy Sherman argued that any nuclear... 

China’s state-run Xinhua news agency boasted on Thursday of the alleged vibrant culture and job market in occupied East Turkistan, after proclaiming China would continue its “counterterrorism and deradicalization” – a euphemism for the genocide of the region’s native people. The assertion that the Communist Party will continue to fight “terrorism” on Tuesday followed a visit by United... 

Singapore has introduced a line of beers made from recycled water. This may sound like a joke but it’s not. A brewery in Singapore has taken the green message to another level. They have turned urine and feces into alcoholic beverages. It doesn’t matter if it sounds appealing or not, but in an effort to make alcoholic beverages eco-friendly, this is what Singapore is doing. Currently the... 

Russia started the special military operation in Ukraine on 24 February, following a request for assistance from the Donbass republics. The latter had been suffering from Ukrainian bombardment over the past eight years as Kiev delayed the implementation of the 2015 Minsk agreements. Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has suggested in an interview with The Economist that the Russian special... 

US President Joe Biden indicated on Monday that Washington is willing to use military force to defend Taiwan if necessary. Speaking at a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, in Tokyo, he explained that the US sees the idea of China “going in” with its troops as unacceptable. When asked if the US would become directly involved in a conflict between China and Taiwan,... 

Two months ago, we noted the first Arab Spring 2.0 incident when, as a result of soaring food, energy (and everything else) prices, thousands of angry Iraqis took to the street to protest. Needless to say, their complaints did not get much traction, and in the meantime food prices have only exploded to fresh record highs, far surpassing the levels hit in 2011 when riots against, you guessed it, food... 

Reports of skies, rivers, rain and bodies of water turning red across the world have shocked Biblical scholars who warn the phenomenon is a sign we have reached the End Times as prophesied in the Book of Revelations. Residents in China’s eastern port city of Zhoushan were left stunned as the skies above turned the color of scarlete over the the weekend, sparking worries of a possible fire or an... 

Multiple analysts at Chinese state-linked think tanks and banks have weighed in on the Biden administration’s recent threats to punish the world’s second-largest economy over China’s refusal to condemn Russia’s war in Ukraine, and amid US charges that it could be helping Moscow evade sanctions, or even quietly resupplying Putin’s military machine (charges which at this point have remained... 

As bad as things currently are on the supply chain front, experts say that they are about to get a whole lot worse. During a recent earnings call, J.B. Hunt Chief Commercial Officer Shelley Simpson explained that come summer, the world as we currently know it may no longer be recognizable. “We do forecast [things] to get a lot worse as we come into the summer months, particularly with what’s happening...