A bridge serving as a vital food supply route to Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region has been destroyed (AP), aid groups said.…
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Israeli aircraft bombed a Hamas weapons-manufacturing site (Reuters) in response to incendiary balloons launched from Gaza, Israel’s military said. No casualties were…
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The last U.S. troops departed (TOLOnews) from Bagram Airfield, the largest base used by American forces in Afghanistan over the past twenty…
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In a breakthrough deal, 130 countries agreed to back (Politico) a 15 percent minimum corporate tax rate and force the world’s largest…
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The House of Representatives voted 366-46 to repeal two authorizations (WSJ) for the use of military force in the Middle East, one…
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Lawmakers in Hidalgo voted to decriminalize elective abortion (Reuters) in the first twelve weeks of pregnancy, making Hidalgo the third Mexican state…
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A UN tribunal sentenced (NYT) two former high-ranking Serbian security officials to twelve years in prison for abetting war crimes in the…
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The World Bank and U.S., French, and German government donor agencies announced $712 million in funding (Bloomberg) for the production of 500…
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The UN Monetary and Financial Conference, known as Bretton Woods, begins with the goal of establishing a new series of rules for…
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Lebanon’s Parliament approved $556 million (Al-Monitor) in prepaid cash aid to half a million poor families after a reduction in fuel subsidies prompted…
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Myanmar’s military government released more than 2,200 detainees (Irrawaddy), most of whom had been charged for participating in protests against the…
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Jakarta announced new emergency measures (CNA), effective until July 20, to contain the spread of the coronavirus. On the islands of…
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“The CCP has remade itself several times—from abandoning Soviet models to its contemporary emphasis on ethnonationalism. But its Leninist determination to…
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China’s Xi Strikes Defiant Tone on Party Anniversary Marking one hundred years since the founding of the Chinese Communist Party…
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The traffic ban ended between 22:00 and 05:00 between Monday and Saturday, and the complete traffic ban on Sunday and…
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A group of national-cultural activists from Ardabil met with released prisoner Yusif Kari, Mehrdad Sheikh and retired Ali Vasigi. At…
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South Azerbaijani political activist Seyid Rza Seyid Nuri has been acquitted of a new criminal charge. In this regard, the…
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A federal judge dismissed two antitrust lawsuits (NYT) filed against Facebook by the Federal Trade Commission and more than forty states, saying…
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The UN Human Rights Council published a report calling on countries to enact a “transformative agenda” (WaPo) against systemic racism, making a…
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Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid is in the United Arab Emirates to open a new embassy and consulate (DW) during the first-ever…
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