Category: International News

Over a thousand Central American illegal aliens set out to complete a “Stations of the Cross”, traversing through Mexico, to reach the United States’ southern border. Upon arrival, they hope to make asylum claims.

“The system is able to identify 40 facial features, regardless of angles and lighting, at an accuracy rate of 99.8 percent,” “It can also scan faces and compare them with its database of criminal suspects at large at a speed of 3 billion times a second, indicating that all Chinese people can be compared in the system within only one second.”

As polls close in Russia, state-run TV is reporting exit polls (conducted by state-run VTsIOM polling company) showing a landslide victory for Vladimir Putin with 73.9% of the vote (above The Kremlin’s pre-election whisper number of 70%).

How bad is it in Venezuela? Well, it’s hard to tell because their government refuses to publish basic statistics. So, Bloomberg created their own gauge to measure one of the most important of all the missing figures – inflation (or hyperinflation in this case). It tracks just one item: a cup of coffee served piping hot at a bakery in eastern Caracas. Its price has jumped to 75,000 bolivars from 1,800 bolivars over the past 12 months, an increase of 4,067%.

Following all the excitement, back-patting, and media reports of the weekend, The BBC reports that South Korea says it has yet to receive a response from Pyongyang on a summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump.