Hundreds of Guatemalans protested (Reuters) the firing of prominent anticorruption investigator Juan Francisco Sandoval, who fled the country after being removed from…
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States including Florida, Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota are reducing their COVID-19 reporting (AP) from daily to weekly even as infections rise…
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U.S. President Joe Biden and Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi will meet today (USA Today) at the White House, where they are…
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Sierra Leone’s Parliament approved a bill to abolish the death penalty (VOA) and replace it with life imprisonment or thirty-year minimum sentences.…
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Group of Twenty (G20) environment ministers at a summit in Naples, Italy, failed to reach an agreement (FT) on phasing out coal…
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In a meeting with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman in Tianjin, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Xie Feng called U.S.…
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U.S. forces have increased air strikes (Reuters) against the Taliban in recent days and are prepared to maintain the heightened level of…
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Tunisian President Kais Saied fired Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi and suspended parliament (Reuters), causing one of the country’s biggest crises since…
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The Biden administration announced new sanctions (NYT) against Cuba’s defense minister and a group of government security forces in response to alleged…
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Negotiations over fully restoring travel between the European Union and the United States are struggling due to the lack of…
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The conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region has spilled into (BBC) the neighboring region of Afar, displacing more than 54,000 people (Reuters), officials said.…
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The United States and Iraq are preparing to announce a shift in the U.S. mission in Iraq from a combat…
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The United States and Iraq are preparing to announce a shift in the U.S. mission in Iraq from a combat…
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In an interview with the Associated Press, Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen said the group will not cease combat until Afghan President…
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U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman will be in China (SCMP) for two days of talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang…
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The Summer Olympic Games officially began (Kyodo) in Japan today, with an opening ceremony in a largely empty stadium underscoring the threat…
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A bipartisan group of state attorneys general reached a preliminary settlement deal (NYT) with Johnson & Johnson and three drug distributors to…
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YouTube said it removed several videos (Reuters) posted by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro for spreading misinformation about COVID-19. Last year, both Twitter…
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Environment and energy ministers from Group of Twenty (G20) nations begin two days of talks (AP) in Naples, Italy, today to prepare…
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Drugmakers Pfizer and BioNTech announced that they will collaborate (News24) with South Africa’s Biovac Institute to deliver more than one hundred million…
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