A nine-year study of four sites in Brazil’s Amazon Rainforest found that those areas emitted more carbon (CNN) than they absorbed, apparently…
Read More »Despite warnings issued (Politico) by the European Flood Awareness System, extreme flooding caused by record rainfall (BBC) in Belgium and Germany has killed more…
Read More »The China-based Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) approved a $100 million loan (Reuters) to Rwanda to finance COVID-19 recovery measures. The World…
Read More »Lebanese Prime Minister–designate Saad Hariri resigned (Al Jazeera) after failing to reach an agreement with President Michel Aoun over the makeup of…
Read More »The situation in Afghanistan dominated the agenda (AP) during a two-day international conference in Uzbekistan that was originally intended to focus on…
Read More »New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern convened an informal virtual meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) today to discuss…
Read More »China opened the world’s largest carbon-trading market (SCMP) today after originally pledging to do so ahead of the 2015 signing of the…
Read More »Association for the Human Rights of Azerbaijani People in Iran (AHRAZ) has been informed that authorities in Greater Tehran Central…
Read More »More than ninety-three thousand people in the United States died from drug overdoses in 2020, according to preliminary data from…
Read More »Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel announced that the country will lift import duties (BBC) on food, medicine, and personal hygiene items that travelers…
Read More »The United Kingdom plans to ban civil lawsuits (Guardian) related to the Troubles and move efforts to investigate abuses committed during that…
Read More »French President Emmanuel Macron said the country’s military mission to counter jihadis in Africa’s Sahel region will end (AFP) in the first…
Read More »U.S. Marines land on the beaches of Beirut to quell civil unrest at the request of the Lebanese prime minister. The three-month…
Read More »Lebanese Prime Minister–designate Saad Hariri presented what appears to be his final attempt at a cabinet proposal (Al Jazeera) to President Michel…
Read More »During the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, the foreign ministers of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan called for an end…
Read More »The foreign ministers of China and India met on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit and discussed efforts…
Read More »German Chancellor Angela Merkel is set to meet (NYT) with U.S. President Joe Biden and other top U.S. officials at the White…
Read More »The number of new COVID-19 cases reported daily in the United States has doubled over the past three weeks (AP), a…
Read More »The U.S. Departments of State and Homeland Security are sending personnel to Haiti (White House), including security experts and a police…
Read More »France’s competition authority hit Google with a $593 million fine (BBC) for failing to negotiate deals with news publishers “in good faith”…
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