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South Korea is developing a surface-to-surface ballistic missile that is designed to destroy underground missile facilities and could be operational…

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told top U.S. climate diplomat John Kerry that poor U.S.-China relations could hinder cooperation on climate…

Honorable President of the People’s Republic of China   Your excellency President Xi,   Arab people in southwestern Iran have…

Venezuelan opposition parties announced that they will participate (AP) in November’s regional and municipal elections, ending a boycott on recent votes. The…

New laboratory testing found no evidence (Reuters) of Ebola in an eighteen-year-old woman in the Ivory Coast who was thought to be…

Chinese ride-hailing company DiDi Global Inc. is helping its workers unionize (Bloomberg), a move that other tech firms could follow as…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet with U.S. President Joe Biden (AFP) today at the White House, where Zelensky is expected to…

At least four people died and ten were injured (WaPo) in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, which caused heavy flooding in Louisiana and…

Panama’s legislature became the first in Central America to approve the legalization of medical cannabis (Reuters). The bill now awaits the…

The European Union recommended that member nations impose health requirements (NYT), such as quarantining and testing, for unvaccinated visitors from the…

U.S. climate envoy John Kerry held talks with Japanese officials on emissions pledges (SCMP) in Tokyo today and will travel to Tianjin,…

Israel’s Ministry of Defense said the country will loan the Palestinian Authority (Al Jazeera) some $155 million following what appeared to be…

The final U.S. military forces departed Afghanistan (TOLOnews) yesterday, finalizing a drawdown process that brought a twenty-year war to a close and…

Senior Taliban leader Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai said in a televised address that the group seeks a trade relationship with India…

The United Nations’ atomic watchdog said that a nuclear reactor at North Korea’s Yongbyon complex has been in operation since July…

Ahead of tomorrow’s deadline for the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, the United States has stepped up efforts to prevent attacks…

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who took office in June as part of an ideologically diverse coalition, is set to…

An outbreak of the Delta variant in Vietnam, where the COVID-19 vaccination rate is low, is causing factories to close (WSJ) and…

Nine candidates confirmed they will run (Prensa Latina) in Chile’s November presidential election. The early frontrunners (Reuters) are left-wing lawmaker Gabriel Boric and independent…

Zimbabwe’s finance minister said the country plans to reserve (Bloomberg) around half of the $961 million disbursed in Special Drawing Rights from…