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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…

In its annual defense report, Japan for the first time stated (Bloomberg) that “the stability of the situation around Taiwan is important”…

More than three hundred thousand acres of land in six western states were on fire (USA Today) Sunday during a heat wave.…

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the FBI are sending officials to Haiti (NPR) to assist in investigations of the Wednesday…

The Party of Action and Solidarity, which seeks closer ties between Moldova and the European Union, won a clear majority (AP) in…

Ethiopia’s electoral board ruled that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s Prosperity Party won 410 of 436 contested parliamentary seats (FT) in June elections…

Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un pledged greater cooperation (SCMP) between their countries on the sixtieth anniversary of…

Thousands of people in cities across Cuba yesterday protested against the country’s leadership (NYT) and food and medicine shortages in what appear…

The COVID-19 vaccination rate in the United States is slowing among adults (Axios), of whom around 48 percent are fully vaccinated,…

Uruguay informed its partner countries in the Southern Common Market, also known as Mercosur, that it will seek bilateral trade deals…

The European Commission fined BMW and Volkswagen (WSJ) a total of $1 billion for colluding to slow emissions reductions in diesel-powered cars.…

World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for Africa Matshidiso Moeti said that although the last week of June saw the…

Basil Rajapaksa, the brother of Sri Lanka’s president and its prime minister, was sworn in (Hindu) as the country’s finance minister, becoming…

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…

In President Joe Biden’s first formal statements on the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan since announcing the drawdown in April,…

Two weeks after the collapse of the Champlain Towers South condo in Surfside, Florida, authorities officially ended the search (NPR) for survivors.…

Haiti’s national police chief said four people were killed (NYT) and three were arrested during efforts to apprehend the killers of President…

Lithuania announced it will build a barrier (BBC) to stem illegal crossings of its border with Belarus. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said…

Former South African President Jacob Zuma allowed authorities to take him to prison (Mail & Guardian) minutes before a deadline for his…

At the first intra-Afghan talks in months in Tehran, delegations for the Afghan government and the Taliban signed a joint declaration…