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September 2, 2020 at 12:55 PM

Chinese Military Power | Australian Recession | Lebanese Government Formation Begins

Daily News Brief September 2, 2020 Top of the Agenda Pentagon: China Is Increasing Its Military Power China is increasing its nuclear power, growing its space program, and deploying artificial…

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September 1, 2020 at 12:58 PM

Belarus Sanctions | China Detains Australian Journalist | Maduro Pardons Opposition Members

Daily News Brief September 1, 2020 Top of the Agenda Baltic Countries Sanction Belarusian Officials Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania imposed travel bans (RFE/FL) on thirty Belarusian officials, …

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August 31, 2020 at 1:02 PM

Coronavirus Cases Grow | Lebanon Picks Prime Minister | North Macedonia Approves New Government

Daily News Brief August 31, 2020 Top of the Agenda Global Coronavirus Cases Pass Twenty-Five Million The global tally of coronavirus infections has exceeded twenty-five million despite attempt…

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August 28, 2020 at 1:04 PM

Japan’s Abe Resigns | Ex-Malian President Freed | Trump Accepts Nomination

Daily News Brief August 28, 2020 Top of the Agenda Japan’s Prime Minister Resigns Over Health Issues Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he will resign (NYT) for health reasons, ending wee…

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August 27, 2020 at 1:19 PM

Iranian Nuclear Sites | UN Investigates Israel-Hezbollah Clash | Pence Vows ‘Law and Order’

Daily News Brief August 27, 2020 Top of the Agenda Iran Allows International Access to Suspected Former Nuclear Sites Iran agreed to allow (BBC) the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) a…

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August 26, 2020 at 1:06 PM

Hong Kong Lawmakers Arrested | UN Rejects Iran Sanctions | Floods in Afghanistan, Pakistan

Daily News Brief August 26, 2020 Top of the Agenda Hong Kong Authorities Arrest Two Legislators Hong Kong police arrested (Straits Times) two opposition Legislative Council members amid a grow…

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August 25, 2020 at 1:00 PM

U.S.-China Trade Deal | Africa Eliminates Wild Polio | Republicans Renominate Trump

Daily News Brief August 25, 2020 Top of the Agenda U.S., China Forge Ahead on Trade Deal Despite Souring Relations Despite rising tensions in other areas, the United States and China reiterate…

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August 24, 2020 at 12:56 PM

Belarus Protests Continue | Christchurch Shooter Sentencing | Pompeo Visits the Middle East

Daily News Brief August 24, 2020 Top of the Agenda Belarusian Opposition Leader to Meet With U.S. Diplomat Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya will meet (RFE/RL) with U.S. Depu…

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August 21, 2020 at 12:55 PM

Tensions Over Iran Sanctions | Navalny’s Transfer Blocked | Biden Accepts Nomination

Daily News Brief August 21, 2020 Top of the Agenda U.S. Moves to Reimpose Sanctions on Iran U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered letters (NPR) to UN leaders accusing Iran of violating…

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August 20, 2020 at 12:45 PM

Putin Critic Hospitalized | U.S. Ends Hong Kong Agreements | EU Rejects Belarusian Election

Daily News Brief August 20, 2020 Top of the Agenda Russian Opposition Leader Hospitalized After Suspected Poisoning Prominent Russian opposition leader and anticorruption advocate Alexey Naval…

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August 19, 2020 at 12:47 PM

Mali’s President Resigns | Hezbollah Member Convicted on Hariri Killing | EU Meets on Belarus

Daily News Brief August 19, 2020 Top of the Agenda Mali’s Keita Steps Down Amid Military Coup Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita resigned after mutinous soldiers arrested him (Al Jazeera)…

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August 18, 2020 at 12:40 PM

Court Rules on Hariri Killing | U.S. Restrictions on Huawei | Rockets Strike Kabul

Daily News Brief August 18, 2020 Top of the Agenda Court Finds Hezbollah Leadership, Syria Not Responsible for Hariri Assassination ​ An UN-backed tribunal in the Netherlands has begun issuing…

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August 17, 2020 at 12:49 PM

Belarus Protests Grow | New Zealand Delays Election | UAE Summons Iranian Diplomat

Daily News Brief August 17, 2020 Top of the Agenda Protests Escalate in Belarus Over Disputed Election Protesters held what might have been the largest demonstration in Belarus’s history (NYT)…

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August 14, 2020 at 12:52 PM

Landmark Israel-UAE Deal | U.S. Confiscates Iranian Oil | Belarusian Protesters Allege Abuse

Daily News Brief August 14, 2020 Top of the Agenda Israel, UAE to Normalize Diplomatic Ties in Major Agreement After months of secretive talks, Israel and the United Arab Emirates have announc…

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August 13, 2020 at 12:58 PM

Belarusian Protests Continue | France Ups Mediterranean Presence | Ship Drained in Mauritius

Daily News Brief August 13, 2020 Top of the Agenda Deadly Protests Stretch On in Belarus Over Contested Election A second protester died as Belarus endured a fourth straight night of demonstra…

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August 12, 2020 at 1:10 PM

Biden’s Historic VP Choice | U.S.–Middle East Arms Transfers | Mexican Ex-President Accused of Graft

Daily News Brief August 12, 2020 Top of the Agenda Joe Biden Picks Kamala Harris as Running Mate Democratic presidential contender and former Vice President Joe Biden selected (NYT) Senator Ka…

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August 11, 2020 at 12:50 PM

Lebanese Government Quits | Belarusian Opposition Leader Flees | Hong Kongers Back Newspaper

Daily News Brief August 11, 2020 Top of the Agenda Lebanon’s Government Steps Down Following Public Pressure After less than eight months in power, Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab’s govern…

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August 10, 2020 at 12:57 PM

U.S.-Taiwan Meeting | Thousands Protest Belarus Election Results | Afghanistan to Release Taliban Prisoners

Daily News Brief August 10, 2020 Top of the Agenda U.S. Health Secretary, Taiwanese President Meet as Beijing Cracks Down on Hong Kong U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar pra…

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August 7, 2020 at 12:46 PM

U.S. Cracks Down on Chinese Apps | Lebanon Investigates Explosions | African Coronavirus Cases Pass One Million

Daily News Brief August 7, 2020 Top of the Agenda Trump Orders U.S. Entities to Stop Dealing With Chinese-Owned Apps U.S. President Donald J. Trump issued a set of executive orders (FT) giving…

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August 6, 2020 at 12:47 PM

Lebanon Seeks Justice | Japan Remembers Hiroshima | U.S. Ups Pressure on Chinese Apps

Daily News Brief August 6, 2020 Top of the Agenda Lebanon Seeks Justice After Devastating Explosion Pressure is mounting for Lebanese authorities to deliver justice after a pair of explosions …

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August 5, 2020 at 12:51 PM

Explosions Rock Beirut | U.S. Announces Taiwan Visit | Egypt Withdraws From Dam Talks

Daily News Brief August 5, 2020 Top of the Agenda Explosions Devastate Beirut, Trigger Outpouring of International Support A set of explosions rocked Lebanon’s capital city of Beirut, devastat…

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August 4, 2020 at 1:05 PM

Virus Cases Soar in Latin America | Kashmir Lockdown | Former Spanish King Flees

Daily News Brief August 4, 2020 Top of the Agenda Latin American Coronavirus Cases Top Five Million Latin America, the region hit hardest by the pandemic, has passed five million coronavirus c…

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August 3, 2020 at 1:00 PM

Microsoft Mulls TikTok Buy | Afghan Prison Attacked | Guyana Installs New President

Daily News Brief August 3, 2020 Top of the Agenda Microsoft Considers Buying TikTok Amid Concerns About Chinese Technology U.S. software giant Microsoft announced it is negotiating (CNBC) to b…

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July 31, 2020 at 1:04 PM

Hong Kong Delays Election | Intra-Afghan Cease-Fire Begins | Eurozone Enters Record-Setting Recession

Daily News Brief July 31, 2020 Top of the Agenda Hong Kong Delays Election, Deepening Concern About Crackdown Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam used her emergency powers (SCMP) to push th…

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July 30, 2020 at 12:56 PM

U.S. to Withdraw Troops in Germany | Hong Kong Disqualifies Opposition Candidates | New Syria Sanctions

Daily News Brief July 30, 2020 Top of the Agenda U.S. Cuts Troops in Germany, Signaling Cracks in Alliance The United States will withdraw nearly twelve thousand troops (DW) from Germany in a …

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July 29, 2020 at 12:51 PM

Yemen Peace Prospects | Intra-Afghan Cease-Fire | Iranian Missiles Put U.S. Bases on Alert

Daily News Brief July 29, 2020 Top of the Agenda Yemeni Separatists Raise Peace Prospects by Abandoning Self-Rule  Yemen’s separatist Southern Transitional Council (STC) abandoned its claim of…

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July 28, 2020 at 1:03 PM

Israel-Hezbollah Tensions | Former Malaysian Prime Minister Convicted | U.S.-Russia Nuclear Talks

Daily News Brief July 28, 2020 Top of the Agenda Israel, Hezbollah Clash Over Alleged Border Incursion Israel’s military accused Lebanon’s Hezbollah of launching a raid (Al Jazeera) across the…

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July 27, 2020 at 12:55 PM

U.S. Consulate in Chengdu Closes | Israel Warns Against Attacks | Gunmen Kill Dozens in Darfur

Daily News Brief July 27, 2020 Top of the Agenda U.S. Consulate in China Closes Amid Diplomatic Row Chinese officials took control (SCMP) of the U.S. consulate in Chengdu today, ending a thirt…

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July 24, 2020 at 1:14 PM

China Shutters U.S. Consulate | U.S. Jets Buzz Iranian Airliner | Taliban Proposes Intra-Afghan Talks

Daily News Brief July 24, 2020 Top of the Agenda China Closes U.S. Consulate as Tensions Escalate Chinese officials demanded that the U.S. consulate in the city of Chengdu cease operations by …

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July 23, 2020 at 12:51 PM

Canada Ends Immigration Deal | China Launches Mars Mission | Trump to Dispatch Federal Forces

Daily News Brief July 23, 2020 Top of the Agenda Canadian Judge Rules Against Asylum Agreement With U.S. A Canadian judge struck down Canada’s Safe Third Country Agreement with the United Stat…

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July 22, 2020 at 12:41 PM

U.S. Closes Chinese Consulate | Pakistan Warns TikTok | African Countries’ Debt Burden

Daily News Brief July 22, 2020 Top of the Agenda U.S. Orders China to Close Houston Consulate The United States ordered China to close its consulate office in Houston (WaPo) amid deteriorating…

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July 21, 2020 at 12:46 PM

EU Stimulus Plan | U.S. Blacklists Chinese Companies | Sudan’s Bashir on Trial

Daily News Brief July 21, 2020 Top of the Agenda EU Leaders Agree on Massive Coronavirus Recovery Package After a grueling four days of negotiations, European Union leaders agreed on a mammoth…

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July 20, 2020 at 12:51 PM

EU Summit Drags On | Flooding in South Asia | UAE Mars Mission

Daily News Brief July 20, 2020 Top of the Agenda EU Leaders Debate Economic Rescue Package at Marathon Summit European Union leaders are trying to break a deadlock (AP) over a proposed economi…

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July 17, 2020 at 1:08 PM

Coronavirus Cases Soar | India, U.S. Talk Trade | EU Leaders Meet

Daily News Brief July 17, 2020 Top of the Agenda Coronavirus Cases Continue Surging Worldwide The pandemic shows no sign of abating as cases continue to skyrocket in the United States while th…

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July 16, 2020 at 12:53 PM

EU Court Ends Data Sharing With U.S. | Flooding in South Asia | OPEC to Boost Production

Daily News Brief July 16, 2020 Top of the Agenda EU Court Invalidates Data-Sharing Agreement With U.S. ​ The European Union’s top court struck down a data-sharing agreement (WaPo) with the Uni…

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July 15, 2020 at 12:57 PM

U.S. Ends Hong Kong’s Special Status | OPEC+ Meeting | Armenia-Azerbaijan Border Clash

Daily News Brief July 15, 2020 Top of the Agenda Trump Ends Hong Kong’s Special Status U.S. President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order ending Hong Kong’s preferential trading status (…

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July 14, 2020 at 12:51 PM

South China Sea Tensions | U.S. Closes Afghanistan Bases | UK Bans Huawei

Daily News Brief July 14, 2020 Top of the Agenda Pompeo: China’s Claims in South China Sea Are Unlawful U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared that most of China’s claims in the disputed…

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July 13, 2020 at 12:57 PM

Coronavirus Surging | Singapore Election Results | China-Iran Deal

Daily News Brief July 13, 2020 Top of the Agenda Global, U.S. Coronavirus Cases Continue to Surge The World Health Organization (WHO) reported more than 230,000 new coronavirus cases (Reuters)…

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July 10, 2020 at 1:06 PM

Philippines to Close TV Network | Coronavirus in Syria | Bolivia’s President Tests Positive

Daily News Brief July 10, 2020 Top of the Agenda Philippines to Shutter Largest TV Network Critical of Duterte In the latest blow to press freedom in the Philippines, lawmakers voted to shut d…

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July 9, 2020 at 12:56 PM

Low Point in U.S.-China Relations | Ivorian Prime Minister Dies | New U.S. Asylum Rules

Daily News Brief July 9, 2020 Top of the Agenda China’s Foreign Minister: U.S.-China Relationship at Its Nadir The U.S.-China relationship faces its most serious challenges in four decades (SC…

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July 8, 2020 at 12:56 PM

UN Report on Syria | AMLO Meets Trump | U.S. Pulls Out of WHO

Daily News Brief July 8, 2020 Top of the Agenda UN Report Details Rights Abuses, War Crimes in Syria ​ Civilians in Syria endured “unfathomable suffering” during an offensive launched late las…

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July 7, 2020 at 12:48 PM

ICE Rule for Foreign Students | Uighurs Push for ICC Probe | UK Sanctions

Daily News Brief July 7, 2020 Top of the Agenda Foreign Students Must Leave U.S. If Classes Only Online Foreign students attending colleges and universities that move fully online cannot remai…

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July 6, 2020 at 1:04 PM

South China Sea Rivalry | Croatian Elections | Scientists Warn of Airborne Coronavirus

Daily News Brief July 6, 2020 Top of the Agenda U.S., China Hold Dueling Naval Exercises in South China Sea The United States and China both conducted naval exercises (SCMP) in the disputed So…

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July 2, 2020 at 12:55 PM

Putin President for Life? | UK, Australia Open Doors to Hong Kongers | Protests in Ethiopia

Daily News Brief July 2, 2020 Editor’s note: There will be no Daily Brief on Friday, July 3, in observance of Independence Day. Top of the Agenda Russian Voters Ap…

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July 1, 2020 at 12:58 PM

USMCA Takes Effect | Russia Votes on Putin’s Rule | No West Bank Annexation Yet

Daily News Brief July 1, 2020 Top of the Agenda New North American Trade Deal Takes Effect A new trade deal among Canada, Mexico, and the United States takes effect today (Reuters), replacing …

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June 30, 2020 at 12:40 PM

Beijing Passes Hong Kong Law | Iran’s Arrest Warrant for Trump | New Burundi Cabinet

Daily News Brief June 30, 2020 Top of the Agenda China Adopts New National Security Law for Hong Kong China’s rubber-stamp legislature approved a new national security law (SCMP) for Hong Kong…

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June 29, 2020 at 12:54 PM

Russian Bounties for U.S. Troops | EU to Ban U.S. Travelers | Malawi’s Election

Daily News Brief June 29, 2020 Top of the Agenda Reports: Russia Offered Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops in Afghanistan Russia offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants (NYT) for killing coali…

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June 26, 2020 at 12:54 PM

Child Starvation in Yemen | EU Virus Alarms | DRC Ebola Outbreak Ends

Daily News Brief June 26, 2020 Top of the Agenda UNICEF: Millions of Yemeni Children at Risk of Starvation Millions of children in Yemen could be pushed to the “brink of starvation” as humanit…

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June 25, 2020 at 12:55 PM

Grim IMF Forecast | Korean War Anniversary | Kosovo’s President Indicted

Daily News Brief June 25, 2020 Top of the Agenda IMF Projects Worse Economic Toll From Coronavirus Pandemic The International Monetary Fund (IMF) expects the global economy to shrink by nearly…

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June 24, 2020 at 1:22 PM

Polish President Meets Trump | North Korea Drops Threats | U.S. Mulls Canada Tariffs

Daily News Brief June 24, 2020 Top of the Agenda Polish President Visits White House Amid Pandemic Polish President Andrzej Duda will meet President Donald J. Trump at the White House today, t…

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