Senior Taliban leader Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai said in a televised address that the group seeks a trade relationship with India…
Read More »The United Nations’ atomic watchdog said that a nuclear reactor at North Korea’s Yongbyon complex has been in operation since July…
Read More »Ahead of tomorrow’s deadline for the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, the United States has stepped up efforts to prevent attacks…
Read More »The WHO’s regional body for Latin America and the Caribbean announced it will launch a platform (PAHO) to boost regional efforts to…
Read More »A ruling from the European Court of Human Rights asked Latvia and Poland to provide emergency provisions (Politico), such as food…
Read More »Iran’s parliament approved eighteen of the nineteen people (Al Jazeera) nominated to President Ebrahim Raisi’s cabinet. Many of the new ministers worked…
Read More »The United States and United Kingdom warned citizens in Kabul yesterday to stay away from the airport due to a…
Read More »Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who took office in June as part of an ideologically diverse coalition, is set to…
Read More »An outbreak of the Delta variant in Vietnam, where the COVID-19 vaccination rate is low, is causing factories to close (WSJ) and…
Read More »Nine candidates confirmed they will run (Prensa Latina) in Chile’s November presidential election. The early frontrunners (Reuters) are left-wing lawmaker Gabriel Boric and independent…
Read More »Zimbabwe’s finance minister said the country plans to reserve (Bloomberg) around half of the $961 million disbursed in Special Drawing Rights from…
Read More »Algeria’s foreign affairs minister said that the country is cutting diplomatic ties (Bloomberg) with Morocco, citing allegations that Morocco supported separatists in…
Read More »U.S. President Joe Biden said the United States will stick to an August 31 deadline (NPR) for completing its withdrawal from Afghanistan,…
Read More »U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’s flight to Vietnam yesterday was delayed (CNN) for several hours due to concerns of a “possible anomalous…
Read More »The U.S. Supreme Court refused to block a Texas federal court’s ruling (WaPo) that ordered the revival of an immigration program implemented…
Read More »The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) fully approved (Bloomberg) Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine, prompting President Joe Biden to call for hesitant…
Read More »A fire at an offshore oil platform owned by Mexican state oil company Pemex killed at least five people (BBC) and injured…
Read More »Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky held a summit (Politico) with envoys from more than forty countries to call for the reclamation of Russia-annexed…
Read More »Washington Sanctions Eritrean Commander Over Tigray Actions The U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions (Reuters) on Filipos Woldeyohannes, the chief of staff of…
Read More »New Delhi announced plans to lease out public infrastructure (Hindustan Times) to private operators over the next four years to raise around…
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