At Weird World Wire, we try to avoid too much reporting too much on good old COVID-19, as well everyone else is doing the same, but we do like to keep our fingers firmly on the pulse when there is HUGE news, and that is what we have here. If you saw our story yesterday,…
Deep in the heart of the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia, a 1.5-hour flight from Beijing is the city of Ordos. Located where the Mongolian grasslands steppe hits the Gobi Desert in northwest China, the area was where Genghis Khan spent his retirement surrounded by nature, or so the story goes. In the 1990s Ordos…
At Weird World Wire, we spend a large portion of our time traveling around the world to various locations looking for material to write articles. Naturally, some of these destinations are inherently risky. In the past few years, we’ve traveled to some of the most dangerous countries in the world. From Syria to Somalia and…
The war against fascism ended in Europe at 2:41 am on May 7th, 1945, as everyone knows, with the official surrender of German Armed Forces High Command Chief-of-Staff, General Alfred Jodl on behalf of the combined Nazi forces in Europe. For this reason, spontaneous celebration erupted throughout Europe as soon as news broke with many…
Last summer, some of the Weird World Wire team were hanging out with Young Pioneer Tours around Eastern Europe. YPT is a company specializing in off the beaten track budget adventures to ‘places your mother would rather you stayed away from’. We soon found ourselves in Moldova, otherwise known as Europe’s poorest and least visited…
In the Nicholas Cage movie Lord of War, one of his most memorable quotes from the main character Yuri Orlov was this: ”After the Cold War, the AK-47 became Russia’s biggest export. After that came vodka, caviar, and suicidal novelists.” One of Russia’s lesser-known exports is the cinema. Like many aspects of life in the…
A Chinese food street in which its vendors sell centipedes. scorpions and other fried insects have reopened after closing for 70 days due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Shops at the daily night market in Nanning, the capital of Jiangsu province, offer numerous classic Chinese snacks and dishes, such as grilled octopus, spicy crayfish, steamed dumplings…
Dictator Swagger:On This Day May 5, 2020 – Pyongyang, DPR Korea: The Russian Federation awarded North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un a medal commemorating the 75th anniversary of Russia’s Victory Day, May 9, 1945, and the end of WWII in Europe. Accepting the medal on behalf of Chairman Kim was North Korean Foreign Minister…