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July 15, 2021 at 12:54 PM

Merkel in Washington | France’s Sahel Drawdown | U.S. Drug Overdose Deaths

Daily News Brief July 15, 2021 Top of the Agenda Merkel, Biden to Meet at White House German Chancellor Angela Merkel is set to meet (NYT) with U.S. President Joe Biden and other top U.S. officials at the W…

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July 14, 2021 at 12:59 PM

EU Climate Package | South African Protests | France Fines Google

Daily News Brief July 14, 2021 Top of the Agenda EU Leaders: Proposed Climate Rules Are ‘Man on Moon’ Moment European Union leaders will today introduce thirteen proposed rules (FT) that would help the bloc…

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July 13, 2021 at 1:04 PM

WHO Slams Inequity of COVID-19 Boosters | EU Mission in Mozambique | Global Hunger Spikes

Daily News Brief July 13, 2021 Top of the Agenda WHO Slams COVID-19 Booster Shots in Rich Countries While Poor Still in Need World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus criti…

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July 12, 2021 at 1:07 PM

Cuban Protests | U.S. Investigators Sent to Haiti | Surrogacy for Same-Sex Israeli Couples

Daily News Brief July 12, 2021 Top of the Agenda Cuba Sees Largest Anti-government Protests in Decades Thousands of people in cities across Cuba yesterday protested against the country’s leadership (NYT) an…

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July 9, 2021 at 1:03 PM

Biden Defends Afghanistan Withdrawal | Israel-Jordan Ties | COVID-19 in Africa

Daily News Brief July 9, 2021 Top of the Agenda Biden Defends Afghanistan Withdrawal, Moves Deadline Forward In President Joe Biden’s first formal statements on the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan si…

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July 8, 2021 at 1:00 PM

Tokyo’s COVID-19 Emergency | Intra-Afghan Talks | Search for Haitian President’s Killers

Daily News Brief July 8, 2021 Top of the Agenda COVID-19 State of Emergency in Tokyo Will Extend Through Olympics Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced that Tokyo will be placed under a state of …

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July 7, 2021 at 12:50 PM

Haitian President Assassinated | Top Saudi Official in D.C. | Pentagon Cancels Cloud Contract

Daily News Brief July 7, 2021 Top of the Agenda Haitian President Assassinated Amid Political Unrest Haitian President Jovenel Moise was “fatally injured” (Miami Herald) and his wife was shot in an attack o…

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July 6, 2021 at 1:05 PM

OPEC+ Talks Collapse | Afghans Flee to Tajikistan | Tropical Storm Elsa

Daily News Brief July 6, 2021 Top of the Agenda OPEC+ Talks Collapse Amid Saudi, Emirati Dispute Amid a dispute between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting…

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July 2, 2021 at 1:11 PM

Global Tax Plan | Bagram Airfield Withdrawal | U.S. High Court Upholds Voting Restrictions

Daily News Brief July 2, 2021 Editor’s note: There will be no Daily Brief on Monday, July 5, in observance of Independence Day. Top of the Agenda 130 Countries Back Global Tax O…

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July 1, 2021 at 12:59 PM

Chinese Communist Party’s Anniversary | South African Vaccine Hub | Sentencing on Balkans Conflicts

Daily News Brief July 1, 2021 Top of the Agenda China’s Xi Strikes Defiant Tone on Party Anniversary Marking one hundred years since the founding of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), President Xi Jinping t…

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June 30, 2021 at 12:51 PM

Northwestern U.S. Heat Wave | Eswatini Protests | Brazil’s Pandemic Inquiry

Daily News Brief June 30, 2021 Top of the Agenda ‘Exceptional and Dangerous’ U.S. Heatwave Expected to Continue An “exceptional and dangerous” heatwave in the northwestern United States and western Canada i…

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June 29, 2021 at 12:52 PM

Ethiopian Cease-Fire | Israel-UAE Ties | UN Call for Reparations

Daily News Brief June 29, 2021 Top of the Agenda Ethiopia Declares Cease-Fire in Tigray as Rebels Occupy Regional Capital The Ethiopian government declared a cease-fire (WaPo) in its conflict with regional …

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June 28, 2021 at 1:12 PM

U.S. Strikes in Iraq, Syria | South Korean Missile Defense Shield | Swedish Prime Minister Resigns

Daily News Brief June 28, 2021 Top of the Agenda U.S. Air Strikes Target Iran-Backed Militias in Iraq, Syria The United States carried out air raids (FT) on facilities used by Iran-backed militias in Iraq a…

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June 25, 2021 at 1:10 PM

WHO Forecasts COVID-19 Boosters | Afghan Leaders at White House | Thai Protests

Daily News Brief June 25, 2021 Top of the Agenda Report: WHO Expects Yearly COVID-19 Boosters for Most Vulnerable The risks posed by coronavirus variants prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to fore…

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June 24, 2021 at 1:05 PM

New U.S. Intelligence Outlook on Afghanistan | China-Australia Trade Rift | Air Strike in Tigray

Daily News Brief June 24, 2021 Top of the Agenda U.S. Intelligence: Afghan Government Could Fall Sooner Than Previously Expected Afghanistan’s government could collapse as soon as six months after U.S. forc…

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June 23, 2021 at 1:04 PM

Conference on Libya | Hong Kong Newspaper to Cease Publication | U.S. Seizes Iran-Linked Sites

Daily News Brief June 23, 2021 Top of the Agenda Conference Seeks Progress in Libya’s Transition U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Berlin today for a conference cohosted by Germany and the United…

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June 22, 2021 at 1:05 PM

Ethiopian Elections | Tokyo to Allow Olympics Spectators | COVID-19 Tech Transfer Hub

Daily News Brief June 22, 2021 Top of the Agenda Ethiopia Holds Controversial Elections Amid Conflict in Tigray Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed faces his first real test at the ballot today in national …

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June 18, 2021 at 1:08 PM

Iranian Presidential Election | Zambia’s Founding President Dies | Nicaragua’s Crackdown

Daily News Brief June 18, 2021 There will be no Daily Brief on Monday, June 21, in observance of Juneteenth. Top of the Agenda Controversial Judiciary Chief Is Apparent Front-Ru…

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June 17, 2021 at 1:05 PM

Crackdown on Hong Kong Press | What’s Next for U.S.-Russia Relations | China’s Space Station

Daily News Brief June 17, 2021 Top of the Agenda Hong Kong Police Raid Pro-democracy Newspaper Hundreds of Hong Kong police officers raided the newsroom (NYT) of the pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily, arr…

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June 16, 2021 at 3:30 PM

Preparing Students for a Competitive World

CFR Education’s innovative civics curriculum     Preparing Students for a Changing World What is required to thrive in a world where threats like viruses and opportunities like scientific breakthroughs know no borders?   This …

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June 16, 2021 at 12:57 PM

Biden Meets Putin | Chinese Planes in Taiwan’s Airspace | Israeli Strikes in Gaza

Daily News Brief June 16, 2021 Top of the Agenda Biden, Putin Meet Amid Frayed U.S.-Russia Ties U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin are meeting in Geneva (NYT) for talks that could…

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June 15, 2021 at 1:00 PM

U.S.-EU Summit | Rohingya Data Sharing | Australia-UK Trade Deal

Daily News Brief June 15, 2021 Top of the Agenda U.S., EU End Yearslong Aircraft Dispute Ahead of Summit The United States and the European Union agreed to a truce (NYT) on a seventeen-year dispute over sub…

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June 14, 2021 at 12:59 PM

NATO Summit Kicks Off | Netanyahu Ousted | Suu Kyi’s Trial Begins

Daily News Brief June 14, 2021 Top of the Agenda NATO Summit to Echo G7’s Focus on China, Russia At today’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in Brussels, leaders are expected to echo commitm…

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June 11, 2021 at 12:48 PM

G7 Summit | French Drawdown in Sahel | Haiti’s Gang Violence

Daily News Brief June 11, 2021 Top of the Agenda G7 Kicks Off Summit With Focus on Vaccinations, Economic Recovery Leaders of Group of Seven (G7) nations and Australia, India, South Korea, and South Africa …

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June 10, 2021 at 12:48 PM

Biden-Johnson Meeting | China’s Sanctions Law | Fraud Charges in Peru Election

Daily News Brief June 10, 2021 Top of the Agenda Biden, Johnson Expected to Agree on New ‘Atlantic Charter’ U.S. President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson are expected to agree today on a…

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June 9, 2021 at 1:10 PM

U.S. Industrial Policy Bill | U.S. Afghanistan Withdrawal Half Complete | Somali Fighters in Tigray

Daily News Brief June 9, 2021 Top of the Agenda U.S. Senate Approves Industrial Policy Bill to Counter China The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passed a bill (NYT) that would devote nearly $250 billion to manuf…

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June 8, 2021 at 1:07 PM

Global Anti-crime Sting | Modi’s Vaccination Push | News Site Outages

Daily News Brief June 8, 2021 Top of the Agenda Law Enforcement Agencies Collaborate on Global Anti-crime Sting Law enforcement agencies in more than a dozen countries arrested at least eight hundred people…

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June 7, 2021 at 1:11 PM

Harris Visits Mexico, Guatemala | Global Tax Deal | Nigeria Bans Twitter

Daily News Brief June 7, 2021 Top of the Agenda Harris Kicks Off First Trip Abroad, Focuses on Migration U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is in Guatemala today to lay the ground for a new U.S. effort to re…

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June 4, 2021 at 1:06 PM

U.S. Vaccine Sharing | Ban on Hong Kong Tiananmen Vigil | Autonomous Drone in Libya

Daily News Brief June 4, 2021 Top of the Agenda White House Lays Out Global Vaccine Donation Plans Kicking off U.S. vaccine donations abroad, the Joe Biden administration announced (White House) that three…

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June 3, 2021 at 1:13 PM

Israel’s New Coalition | Nicaraguan Opposition Leader Detained | U.S. Threatens Tariffs Over Tech Tax

Daily News Brief June 3, 2021 Top of the Agenda New Israeli Coalition Threatens to Oust Netanyahu Ideologically diverse leaders of Israel’s opposition reached a deal (FT) to form a government that could uns…

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June 2, 2021 at 1:13 PM

‘Remain in Mexico’ Ends | UK in Talks to Join Asia-Pacific Trade Pact | WHO Approves Sinovac Vaccine

Daily News Brief June 2, 2021 Top of the Agenda U.S. Ends ‘Remain in Mexico’ Policy for Asylum Seekers The Joe Biden administration formally ended (Dept. of Homeland Security) a policy enacted under the Don…

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June 1, 2021 at 1:04 PM

WHO Calls for Pandemic Treaty | China Allows Parents Three Children | Peru’s New COVID-19 Toll

Daily News Brief June 1, 2021 Top of the Agenda Call for Pandemic Treaty Caps World Health Assembly At the close of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) annual World Health Assembly, WHO Director General T…

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May 28, 2021 at 1:05 PM

Taliban Takeovers | Open Skies Treaty | USAID Reportedly Hacked

Daily News Brief May 28, 2021 Editor’s note: There will be no Daily Brief on Monday, May 31, for Memorial Day. Top of the Agenda Taliban Takes Over Dozens of Afghan Government O…

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May 27, 2021 at 12:52 PM

Environmentalists Win Against Big Oil | WhatsApp Sues India | Switzerland-EU Tensions

Daily News Brief May 27, 2021 Top of the Agenda Climate Activists Celebrate Wins Against Big Oil In a single day, several of the world’s oil industry giants suffered blows (Politico) that revealed the growi…

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May 26, 2021 at 1:18 PM

New Calls to Probe Virus’s Origin | Syria’s Election | Afghanistan Troop Withdrawal

Daily News Brief May 26, 2021 Top of the Agenda U.S., Others Renew Calls for COVID-19 Origin Probe At the World Health Organization’s (WHO) main annual meeting, U.S. representatives called for (AFP) a new r…

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May 25, 2021 at 12:53 PM

Blinken’s Middle East Tour | One Year Since George Floyd’s Killing | Mali’s Leaders Detained

Daily News Brief May 25, 2021 Top of the Agenda Blinken Begins Mideast Tour to Bolster Gaza Truce U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken began a series of visits (AP) in the Middle East that aim to shore up…

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May 24, 2021 at 1:10 PM

Belarus Plane Diversion | China-Russia Talks | Ethiopia’s Telecom Deal

Daily News Brief May 24, 2021 Top of the Agenda EU Slams Belarus for ‘Hijacking’ Plane European Union leaders are considering sanctions against Belarus (FT) after a Ryanair plane was forced to land in Minsk…

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May 21, 2021 at 1:04 PM

Hamas-Israel Cease-Fire Begins | Biden Meets South Korea’s Moon | EU Freezes China Deal

Daily News Brief May 21, 2021 Top of the Agenda Cease-Fire Between Hamas, Israel Halts Fighting in Gaza The Palestinian militant group Hamas and Israel agreed to a cease-fire after eleven days of conflict t…

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May 20, 2021 at 1:06 PM

India Sets Record for COVID-19 Deaths | Cease-Fire in Gaza? | EU to Open Borders

Daily News Brief May 20, 2021 Top of the Agenda India Sets World Record for Single-Day COVID-19 Deaths India reported more than 4,500 deaths (WaPo) from COVID-19 yesterday, the highest number seen by any co…

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May 19, 2021 at 12:52 PM

Blinken-Lavrov Meeting | Palestinians Strike | Vote on Freezing EU-China Deal

Daily News Brief May 19, 2021 Top of the Agenda Blinken Warns of Militarization of the Arctic U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged countries to avoid militarizing the Arctic (RFE/RL) ahead of a meet…

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May 18, 2021 at 12:50 PM

U.S. to Boost Vaccine Donations | Biden Supports Gaza Cease-Fire | Colombia Protests

Daily News Brief May 18, 2021 Top of the Agenda U.S. to Increase COVID-19 Vaccine Donations President Joe Biden announced that the United States will send eighty million COVID-19 vaccine doses (WSJ) abroad,…

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May 17, 2021 at 12:57 PM

Israeli-Palestinian Clashes Continue | Blinken’s Arctic Trip | Chile’s Constitutional Convention

Daily News Brief May 17, 2021 Top of the Agenda Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Gaza Enters Second Week The Israeli military continued to strike Gaza today as the worst conflict with Palestinian militant gr…

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May 14, 2021 at 1:03 PM

New CDC Mask Guidance | Israel Weighs Gaza Ground Invasion | Trudeau Cleared of Wrongdoing

Daily News Brief May 14, 2021 Top of the Agenda CDC: Fully Vaccinated People Can Stop Wearing Masks in Most Places Americans who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 no longer need to wear masks (WaPo) or …

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May 13, 2021 at 12:53 PM

Biden’s Cybersecurity Directive | Austria’s Kurz Under Investigation | Report on WHO’s Pandemic Response

Daily News Brief May 13, 2021 Top of the Agenda Biden Signs Executive Order on Cybersecurity in Wake of Pipeline Shutdown President Joe Biden issued an executive order (White House) aimed at beefing up the …

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May 12, 2021 at 1:04 PM

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Escalates | Iran’s Ahmadinejad to Run Again | U.S. Gas Shortages

Daily News Brief May 12, 2021 Top of the Agenda Death Toll Rises in Worst Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Years Dozens of people have been killed, including women and children, in the worst fighting (AP) be…

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May 11, 2021 at 1:10 PM

Israeli Air Strikes in Gaza | China’s Census | FDA Approves Pfizer Jab for Some Children

Daily News Brief May 11, 2021 Top of the Agenda Israel Retaliates Against Rocket Attacks From Gaza Weeks of tensions in Jerusalem sharply escalated (Haaretz) yesterday as Israel carried out air strikes in G…

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May 10, 2021 at 1:03 PM

Cyberattack on U.S. Pipeline | Afghan Girls’ School Bombing | East Jerusalem Clashes

Daily News Brief May 10, 2021 Top of the Agenda Cyberattack Forces Closure of Major U.S. Pipeline A cyberattack forced one of the largest fuel pipelines in the United States to shut down over the weekend, e…

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May 7, 2021 at 12:47 PM

Iran Nuclear Talks Resume | Egypt, Turkey Meet | U.S. Mulls Aid to Ukraine

Daily News Brief May 7, 2021 Top of the Agenda Fourth Round of Iran Nuclear Deal Talks Begins in Vienna The fourth, and possibly final, round of talks over a potential U.S. return to the 2015 Iran nuclear d…

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May 6, 2021 at 1:04 PM

U.S. Backs Vaccine IP Waiver | Israel’s Lapid Gets Mandate | G7 Meeting Wraps

Daily News Brief May 6, 2021 Top of the Agenda U.S. Backs Effort to Waive Patents for COVID-19 Vaccines Under pressure from Democratic lawmakers and activists, the Joe Biden administration said it will back…

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May 5, 2021 at 1:07 PM

Israel’s Netanyahu Falls Flat | EU-China Deal’s Future | Facebook to Rule on Trump Ban

Daily News Brief May 5, 2021 Top of the Agenda Israel’s Political Turmoil Continues as Netanyahu Fails to Form Coalition Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to form a government (Haaretz) befor…

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