Iran and the permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany sign the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. Iran agrees…
Read More »The United Arab Emirates opened a new embassy (Haaretz) in Tel Aviv, following the inauguration of Israel’s embassy in the UAE last…
Read More »A delegation of prominent Afghan politicians, including High Council for National Reconciliation Chair Abdullah Abdullah and former President Hamid Karzai,…
Read More »The Beijing-controlled electoral commission in Macau banned twenty-one candidates (Guardian), including fifteen from pro-democracy groups, from running in September elections. Like…
Read More »European Union leaders will today introduce thirteen proposed rules (FT) that would help the bloc reach its existing climate goal of limiting…
Read More »Democratic lawmakers fled Texas (NYT) in an attempt to block the passage of new restrictions on voting rights proposed by the state…
Read More »The United States is revoking travel visas (AP) for one hundred lawmakers, judges, and prosecutors who helped the current Nicaraguan government. The…
Read More »Bulgaria’s antiestablishment There is Such a People party, which is led by former pop star Slavi Trifonov and has been…
Read More »Ethiopia: Thousands of people from the war-torn region of Tigray who now live in cities across Ethiopia are being detained, the Associated…
Read More »The European Union established a military mission (AFP) to train Mozambican forces in their battle against jihadis in the country’s north. A…
Read More »The first International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) World Cup soccer matches take place in Montevideo. Thirteen teams enter the tournament.…
Read More »At least sixty-four people died in a fire (CNN) in the COVID-19 isolation ward of a hospital in the city of Nasiriyah…
Read More »Nepal’s Supreme Court ruled that a recent dissolution of the country’s lower house of Parliament was unconstitutional and that the…
Read More »In its annual defense report, Japan for the first time stated (Bloomberg) that “the stability of the situation around Taiwan is important”…
Read More »World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus criticized drugmakers (STAT), including Pfizer and Moderna, for marketing COVID-19 vaccine booster…
Read More »More than three hundred thousand acres of land in six western states were on fire (USA Today) Sunday during a heat wave.…
Read More »The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the FBI are sending officials to Haiti (NPR) to assist in investigations of the Wednesday…
Read More »The Party of Action and Solidarity, which seeks closer ties between Moldova and the European Union, won a clear majority (AP) in…
Read More »Ethiopia’s electoral board ruled that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s Prosperity Party won 410 of 436 contested parliamentary seats (FT) in June elections…
Read More »After a decade-long legal battle (WaPo), Israel’s top court ruled that same-sex couples and single men must be allowed (Haaretz) to become parents…
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