The U.S. Senate is due to take up deliberations on a $3.5 trillion budget bill after it reconvenes today. All…
Read More »In primaries for upcoming legislative elections, Argentina’s ruling coalition lost most districts (Bloomberg), including Buenos Aires Province, to the opposition. The primaries…
Read More »Norwegians are voting in parliamentary elections that are expected to unseat the country’s conservative majority (FT) for the first time in eight…
Read More »Near Niger’s borders with Burkina Faso and Mali, armed groups’ recruitment and killing of children (AFP) in the first half of this…
Read More »Tehran’s agreement to allow nuclear-site inspection cameras to be serviced (NYT) by the United Nations’ nuclear monitor, the International Atomic Energy Agency…
Read More »Afghan women will be allowed to attend (WaPo) university and postgraduate education in Islamic attire and gender-segregated settings, the Taliban’s education minister…
Read More »Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob’s government and the Pakatan Harapan opposition coalition signed the agreement after months of political instability (Straits…
Read More »At a conference it hosts today, the United Nations will call for $600 million (DW) to fund humanitarian programs in Afghanistan through…
Read More »The countries reopened a high-level dialogue (AP) on trade, infrastructure, and migration that had been launched during the Barack Obama administration but…
Read More »Madrid authorities arrested Hugo Carvajal (AP) almost two years after he defied a Spanish extradition order and disappeared. Carvajal is wanted in…
Read More »Fearing that jihadis in Africa will be emboldened by the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told AFP that an…
Read More »The country’s president and prime minister announced a new cabinet (Al Jazeera) after thirteen months of political deadlock and a spiraling economic…
Read More »Qatar and Turkey have worked to help restore civilian flights out of Kabul, which the Taliban had said they would…
Read More »Biden is set to visit the three memorial sites (VOA) for the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks tomorrow to mark the twenty-year…
Read More »President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping had a ninety-minute phone conversation (SCMP). The White House said they discussed how to keep U.S.-China…
Read More »As part of a package of new pandemic-containment measures, U.S. President Joe Biden announced federal COVID-19 vaccination and testing mandates…
Read More »While visiting sites in New York and New Jersey that were hit by Hurricane Ida, U.S. President Joe Biden said…
Read More »Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled that it is unconstitutional (AP) to regard abortion as a crime. The ruling immediately applies only to the…
Read More »The trial of participants in the November 2015 terrorist attacks on Paris’s Bataclan theater began today (WaPo) and is set to continue…
Read More »A Cape Verde court ruled that it will not block the extradition (FT) of Alex Saab, a Colombian businessman wanted in the…
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