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Authorities in Hong Kong arrested four members (Straits Times) of the group that plans annual vigils marking the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.…

Around 8.9 million Americans are expected to see a reduction (AP) in unemployment benefits as two federal pandemic-related programs expire today. The…

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro will join (MercoPress) rallies of his supporters today in the city of Sao Paulo and the capital of…

Belarusian activist Maria Kolesnikova received an eleven-year jail sentence (BBC) and lawyer Maxim Znak received a ten-year jail sentence after they took…

An attack in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo killed at least thirty people (AFP) over the weekend, according to local and UN…

Duwa Lashi La, the head of a group of legislators ousted by Myanmar’s military in a February coup, called for a…

South Korea successfully test-fired a ballistic missile from a submarine, Yonhap reported, making it the eighth country to possess (Reuters) submarine-launched ballistic missiles.…

The soldiers who carried out a coup against Guinean President Alpha Conde on Sunday announced that military officers have assumed political…

  Former Danish Immigration Minister Inger Stoejberg’s trial begins today (BBC) over accusations that she unlawfully ordered the separation of couples seeking…

  The New Development Bank—launched in 2015 by the BRICS bloc of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—announced it…

  Italian energy company Eni said it discovered an oil deposit (AFP, Reuters) off the shore of the Ivory Coast that could…

The Taliban said they will soon announce (TOLOnews) the formation of a new government in Afghanistan. A member of the group said…

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…