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Qatar approved the legal framework (Reuters) for its first-ever legislative election to be held in October. Qataris will choose two-thirds of the…

About two hundred Afghan translators and interpreters who aided U.S. military efforts in Afghanistan arrived in the United States (CNN) after being…

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte retracted his plan (SCMP) to cancel a military cooperation agreement with the United States. The decision was announced…

U.S. President Joe Biden announced that federal employees must be vaccinated (CNN) against the coronavirus or face strict protocols, and encouraged states…

The Senate voted 67-32 to advance a bipartisan, $1 trillion infrastructure deal (NYT) that would enact the largest infusion of government investment…

The rate of methane leaks in Mexican oil and gas operations is twice as high (Reuters) as that of leaks in the…

European Union countries have together administered (NYT) more COVID-19 vaccine doses per one hundred people than the United States. The progress reflects…

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa authorized the deployment (AFP) of nearly 1,500 troops to Mozambique to fight jihadi insurgents. The deployment is…

Days of heavy flooding in southern Bangladesh have destroyed an estimated 2,500 shelters (AP) at Rohingya refugee camps and killed at least…

Qin Gang, a Chinese diplomat known for censuring criticism of China, arrived in Washington (SCMP) to take up his post as ambassador…

The United States imposed new sanctions (AP) on Syrian prisons, government officials, militant groups, and militia leaders in response to reported human…

The U.S. Congress’s independent watchdog on Afghanistan concluded in its latest report (Bloomberg) that Afghanistan “remains poor, aid-dependent, and conflict-affected” despite the…

Hundreds of Guatemalans protested (Reuters) the firing of prominent anticorruption investigator Juan Francisco Sandoval, who fled the country after being removed from…

States including Florida, Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota are reducing their COVID-19 reporting (AP) from daily to weekly even as infections rise…

U.S. President Joe Biden and Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi will meet today (USA Today) at the White House, where they are…

Sierra Leone’s Parliament approved a bill to abolish the death penalty (VOA) and replace it with life imprisonment or thirty-year minimum sentences.…

Group of Twenty (G20) environment ministers at a summit in Naples, Italy, failed to reach an agreement (FT) on phasing out coal…

The Biden administration announced new sanctions (NYT) against Cuba’s defense minister and a group of government security forces in response to alleged…

Negotiations over fully restoring travel between the European Union and the United States are struggling due to the lack of…

The conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region has spilled into (BBC) the neighboring region of Afar, displacing more than 54,000 people (Reuters), officials said.…