At least sixty-four people died in a fire (CNN) in the COVID-19 isolation ward of a hospital in the city of Nasiriyah…
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Nepal’s Supreme Court ruled that a recent dissolution of the country’s lower house of Parliament was unconstitutional and that the…
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In its annual defense report, Japan for the first time stated (Bloomberg) that “the stability of the situation around Taiwan is important”…
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World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus criticized drugmakers (STAT), including Pfizer and Moderna, for marketing COVID-19 vaccine booster…
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More than three hundred thousand acres of land in six western states were on fire (USA Today) Sunday during a heat wave.…
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the FBI are sending officials to Haiti (NPR) to assist in investigations of the Wednesday…
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The Party of Action and Solidarity, which seeks closer ties between Moldova and the European Union, won a clear majority (AP) in…
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Ethiopia’s electoral board ruled that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s Prosperity Party won 410 of 436 contested parliamentary seats (FT) in June elections…
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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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General Austin Scott Miller, who commanded U.S. forces in Afghanistan for three years, will step down (WaPo) today in a symbolic end…
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Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un pledged greater cooperation (SCMP) between their countries on the sixtieth anniversary of…
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Thousands of people in cities across Cuba yesterday protested against the country’s leadership (NYT) and food and medicine shortages in what appear…
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The COVID-19 vaccination rate in the United States is slowing among adults (Axios), of whom around 48 percent are fully vaccinated,…
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Uruguay informed its partner countries in the Southern Common Market, also known as Mercosur, that it will seek bilateral trade deals…
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The European Commission fined BMW and Volkswagen (WSJ) a total of $1 billion for colluding to slow emissions reductions in diesel-powered cars.…
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World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for Africa Matshidiso Moeti said that although the last week of June saw the…
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Israeli officials revealed that Prime Minister Naftali Bennett visited Jordanian King Abdullah in secret (Axios) last week in the king’s first meeting…
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Basil Rajapaksa, the brother of Sri Lanka’s president and its prime minister, was sworn in (Hindu) as the country’s finance minister, becoming…
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China’s central bank lowered the proportion of funds (SCMP) that banks are required to hold in reserve, a surprise move (CNBC) that acknowledges the…
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In President Joe Biden’s first formal statements on the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan since announcing the drawdown in April,…
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