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In primaries for upcoming legislative elections, Argentina’s ruling coalition lost most districts (Bloomberg), including Buenos Aires Province, to the opposition. The primaries…

Norwegians are voting in parliamentary elections that are expected to unseat the country’s conservative majority (FT) for the first time in eight…

Near Niger’s borders with Burkina Faso and Mali, armed groups’ recruitment and killing of children (AFP) in the first half of this…

Afghan women will be allowed to attend (WaPo) university and postgraduate education in Islamic attire and gender-segregated settings, the Taliban’s education minister…

Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob’s government and the Pakatan Harapan opposition coalition signed the agreement after months of political instability (Straits…

At a conference it hosts today, the United Nations will call for $600 million (DW) to fund humanitarian programs in Afghanistan through…

The countries reopened a high-level dialogue (AP) on trade, infrastructure, and migration that had been launched during the Barack Obama administration but…

Madrid authorities arrested Hugo Carvajal (AP) almost two years after he defied a Spanish extradition order and disappeared. Carvajal is wanted in…

Fearing that jihadis in Africa will be emboldened by the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told AFP that an…

Qatar and Turkey have worked to help restore civilian flights out of Kabul, which the Taliban had said they would…

Biden is set to visit the three memorial sites (VOA) for the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks tomorrow to mark the twenty-year…

President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping had a ninety-minute phone conversation (SCMP). The White House said they discussed how to keep U.S.-China…

As part of a package of new pandemic-containment measures, U.S. President Joe Biden announced federal COVID-19 vaccination and testing mandates…

The Joe Biden administration sent letters (AP) to several high-profile former officials from the Donald Trump administration who had been named to…

Uruguay has begun talks with China (MercoPress) on solidifying a free trade deal, despite objections from other members of South America’s Southern…

The two presidents will meet in Moscow today (RFE/RL). Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has been increasingly isolated internationally following his crackdown…

At an emergency virtual summit, Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) leaders moved to suspend Guinea (AFP) and called for the…

While visiting sites in New York and New Jersey that were hit by Hurricane Ida, U.S. President Joe Biden said…

Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled that it is unconstitutional (AP) to regard abortion as a crime. The ruling immediately applies only to the…

The trial of participants in the November 2015 terrorist attacks on Paris’s Bataclan theater began today (WaPo) and is set to continue…