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September 22, 2021 at 12:49 PM

Biden’s Global Vaccination Push | Taliban Seek UNGA Slot | South American Vaccine Hubs

Daily News Brief September 22, 2021 Top of the Agenda Biden Pushes for Increased COVID-19 Vaccine Access on Heels of UNGA Climate Pledges U.S. President Joe Biden will meet (NYT) with foreign leaders and re…
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September 21, 2021 at 12:54 PM

UNGA Speeches Kick Off | Sudanese Coup Attempt | Trudeau’s Lackluster Victory

Daily News Brief September 21, 2021 Top of the Agenda Global Tensions Will Be on Display at UNGA Debate Speeches by world leaders kick off today (NYT) at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York City, tho…
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September 20, 2021 at 12:50 PM

Climate Appeals Ahead of UNGA | Russian Elections | Haitians Deported

Daily News Brief September 20, 2021 Top of the Agenda UN’s Guterres, Britain’s Johnson Host Climate Session Ahead of UNGA General Debate UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and British Prime Minister Bori…
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September 17, 2021 at 12:44 PM

China’s Bid to Join CPTPP | Migrant Camp in Texas | Abraham Accords Turn One

Daily News Brief September 17, 2021 Top of the Agenda China Applies to Join Trade Pact Originally Meant to Counter Its Influence In a bid to increase its economic clout in the Pacific, China filed an applic…
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September 16, 2021 at 12:44 PM

Nuclear Subs for Australia | France Kills Sahel Jihadi Leader | First All-Civilian Space Flight

Daily News Brief September 16, 2021 Top of the Agenda U.S., UK to Help Australia Acquire Nuclear-Powered Submarines Heralding the beginning of a new security alliance, the leaders of Australia, the United K…
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September 15, 2021 at 12:59 PM

North, South Korea Test Missiles | EU Calls for Security Autonomy | U.S. General’s De-escalation Steps

Daily News Brief September 15, 2021 Top of the Agenda Koreas Test Missiles as Nuclear Negotiations Remain Stalled North Korea and South Korea both tested ballistic missiles (CNN) today, adding new pressure …
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September 14, 2021 at 12:49 PM

Blinken Grilled on Afghanistan Exit | Egypt-Israel Ties | UN General Assembly Kicks Off

Daily News Brief September 14, 2021 Top of the Agenda Blinken Faces Congress Questioning on Afghanistan Pullout U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will testify (Foreign Policy) before the Senate Committ…
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September 13, 2021 at 12:51 PM

UN Appeals for Afghanistan Aid | Iran-IAEA Agreement | Norwegian Elections

Daily News Brief September 13, 2021 Top of the Agenda UN Appeals for $600 Million in Aid for Afghanistan At a conference it hosts today, the United Nations will call for $600 million (DW) to fund humanitari…
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September 10, 2021 at 1:02 PM

U.S. Vaccine Requirements | Civilian Flight From Kabul | Twenty Years Since 9/11

Daily News Brief September 10, 2021 Top of the Agenda Biden Announces Sweeping COVID-19 Vaccine Requirements As part of a package of new pandemic-containment measures, U.S. President Joe Biden announced fed…
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September 9, 2021 at 12:48 PM

COVAX Slashes 2021 Delivery Forecast | Morocco’s Election Upset | China-Uruguay Trade Talks

Daily News Brief September 9, 2021 Top of the Agenda COVAX Vaccine Equity Program Cuts Expected 2021 Deliveries By a Quarter COVAX, the UN-backed mechanism for improving global access to COVID-19 vaccines, …
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September 8, 2021 at 2:24 PM

How the World Has Changed: 20 Years After 9/11

Insight on the terror attacks and aftermath     Twenty years after the attacks of September 11, 2001, the war in Afghanistan has come to an end, but U.S. foreign policy—including counterterrorism, human rights, migration, and surveillance—has been…
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September 8, 2021 at 12:56 PM

Taliban Announce Government | Trial for 2015 Paris Attacks | Mexico’s Abortion Ruling

Daily News Brief September 8, 2021 Top of the Agenda Taliban Announce Caretaker Government With Longtime Leaders in Top Positions  The Taliban announced a caretaker cabinet (NYT) that includes many hard-lin…
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September 7, 2021 at 1:01 PM

Guinea’s Coup | Myanmar Opposition Calls for Armed Resistance | Rallies for Brazil’s Bolsonaro

Daily News Brief September 7, 2021 Top of the Agenda Guinean Military Consolidates Power in Wake of Coup The soldiers who carried out a coup against Guinean President Alpha Conde on Sunday announced that mi…
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September 3, 2021 at 12:51 PM

Japan’s Suga to Resign | Calls for EU Military Force | Venezuela Talks

Daily News Brief September 3, 2021 Editor’s note: There will be no Daily Brief on Monday, September 6, for Labor Day. Top of the Agenda Japanese Leader to Step Aside After One Y…
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September 2, 2021 at 12:55 PM

China’s Warning on Climate Cooperation | New Taliban Government | Ivory Coast Oil Find

Daily News Brief September 2, 2021 Top of the Agenda Beijing Tells Washington That Climate Action Is Inseparable From Broader Relations Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told top U.S. climate diplomat John K…
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September 1, 2021 at 12:58 PM

Ukraine’s Zelensky in Washington | Biden’s Afghanistan Address | Venezuelan Opposition’s Election Boycott Ends

Daily News Brief September 1, 2021 Top of the Agenda U.S. Security Support for Ukraine in Focus as Zelensky Meets With Biden Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet with U.S. President Joe Biden (A…
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August 31, 2021 at 12:57 PM

U.S. Completes Afghanistan Withdrawal | U.S. Climate Envoy in Asia | Israeli-Palestinian Talks

Daily News Brief August 31, 2021 Top of the Agenda U.S. Completes Military Pullout From Afghanistan, Ending Twenty-Year War The final U.S. military forces departed Afghanistan (TOLOnews) yesterday, finalizi…
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August 30, 2021 at 1:04 PM

U.S. Intercepts Rockets in Kabul | North Korea’s Nuclear Program | UK Study on Delta Variant

Daily News Brief August 30, 2021 Top of the Agenda U.S. Intercepts Rockets at Kabul Airport as Withdrawal Deadline Nears Ahead of tomorrow’s deadline for the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, the United Sta…
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August 27, 2021 at 12:57 PM

Scores Killed in Kabul Attack | Japan-Taiwan Talks | Fed’s Annual Meeting

Daily News Brief August 27, 2021 Top of the Agenda U.S. Vows to Continue Evacuations From Afghanistan After Deadly Attack President Joe Biden vowed to hunt down the attackers (White House) responsible for k…
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August 26, 2021 at 1:05 PM

Israel’s Bennett at White House | Security Threats in Kabul | Iran’s New Cabinet

Daily News Brief August 26, 2021 Top of the Agenda Israeli Prime Minister Bennett to Meet With Biden Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who took office in June as part of an ideologically diverse coali…
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August 25, 2021 at 1:08 PM

‘Remain in Mexico’ Ruling | Deadline for Afghanistan Withdrawal | Algeria-Morocco Ties

Daily News Brief August 25, 2021 Top of the Agenda U.S. Supreme Court Allows ‘Remain in Mexico’ Program to be Reinstated The U.S. Supreme Court refused to block a Texas federal court’s ruling (WaPo) that or…
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August 24, 2021 at 1:00 PM

CIA-Taliban Meeting | Egypt Closes Gaza Border | U.S. FDA Approves Pfizer Jab

Daily News Brief August 24, 2021 Top of the Agenda CIA Director Meets With Taliban Leader Ahead of G7 Gathering CIA Director William Burns met with the Taliban’s top political leader, Mullah Abdul Ghani Bar…
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August 23, 2021 at 1:04 PM

Medical Aid to Afghanistan Delayed | DNA-Based COVID-19 Shot Approved | Chad’s Sahel Drawdown

Daily News Brief August 23, 2021 Top of the Agenda Medical Aid to Afghanistan Delayed Amid Tense Airport Evacuations Five hundred tons of medical supplies due to be delivered to Afghanistan this week have b…
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August 20, 2021 at 1:07 PM

Delays in Kabul Airlifts | Chinese Data Privacy Law | Merkel-Putin Meeting

Daily News Brief August 20, 2021 Top of the Agenda Airlifts From Kabul Continue as Taliban Tightens Grip More than eighteen thousand people have been evacuated (Reuters) from Afghanistan since the Taliban t…
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August 19, 2021 at 12:59 PM

U.S. Announces COVID-19 Boosters | IMF Blocks Afghanistan Funds | EU Criticizes Belarus

Daily News Brief August 19, 2021 Top of the Agenda U.S. to Offer COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters Despite Inequity Warnings The White House announced that beginning September 20, the United States will offer COVID…
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August 18, 2021 at 1:06 PM

Nearly Two Thousand Dead in Haiti Quake | Taliban Press Conference | South Africans Protest Vaccine Exports

Daily News Brief August 18, 2021 Top of the Agenda Death Toll in Haiti Earthquake Nears Two Thousand Haitian authorities said the confirmed death toll from Saturday’s earthquake has risen (Miami Herald) to …
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August 17, 2021 at 1:08 PM

Taliban Consolidates Control | Haiti Earthquake Relief | Israel-Poland Dispute

Daily News Brief August 17, 2021 Top of the Agenda Taliban Consolidates Control of Afghanistan as Biden Defends U.S. Withdrawal In the first signals of what Taliban rule in Afghanistan could look like in th…
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August 16, 2021 at 1:08 PM

Afghan Government Collapses | Earthquake Strikes Haiti | Zambian Opposition Wins Election

Daily News Brief August 16, 2021 Top of the Agenda Afghan Government Collapses Amid Taliban Takeover, Chaotic U.S. Evacuation President Ashraf Ghani fled Afghanistan (Economist) yesterday as Taliban leaders…
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August 13, 2021 at 12:56 PM

Taliban Surges | Venezuela Talks | Census Shows More Multiracial U.S.

Daily News Brief August 13, 2021 Top of the Agenda As Taliban Gains Ground, Western Countries Scramble to Assist Withdrawal The Taliban gained control of Afghanistan’s second- and third-largest cities by ea…
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August 12, 2021 at 12:59 PM

Beijing’s Five-Year Regulatory Plan | Zambia Votes | Biden’s Democracy Summit

Daily News Brief August 12, 2021 Top of the Agenda Beijing Lays Out Plan to Tighten Economic Regulation The Chinese government published (SCMP) a blueprint for increasing regulation (FT) of economic sectors…
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August 11, 2021 at 12:44 PM

Abiy’s Call to Arms in Ethiopia | China Sentences Canadian | Taliban Takes Three More Capitals

Daily News Brief August 11, 2021 Top of the Agenda Abiy Calls ‘All Capable Ethiopians’ to Fight Tigrayan Rebels Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed called for “all capable Ethiopians” to join government for…
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August 10, 2021 at 1:08 PM

Qatar Talks on Afghan Security | Marburg Virus in Guinea | U.S. Military to Require COVID-19 Vaccines

Daily News Brief August 10, 2021 Top of the Agenda U.S. Envoy in Doha for Talks on Afghan Security The U.S. State Department said special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad has traveled to Doha, Qatar, for talks with r…
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August 9, 2021 at 1:21 PM

Climate Report Is ‘Code Red for Humanity’ | Taliban Takeovers | Polish Judicial Panel

Daily News Brief August 9, 2021 Top of the Agenda New Report Predicts Global Warming Will Cross 1.5°C Threshold A new report written by 234 scientists for the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Clim…
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August 6, 2021 at 1:05 PM

Hezbollah, Israel Trade Fire | China’s Vaccine Pledge | Top Afghan Official Killed

Daily News Brief August 6, 2021 Top of the Agenda Hezbollah, Israel Exchange Fire in Border Escalation Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement and the Israeli military exchanged cross-border fire (Bloomberg) in a flar…
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August 5, 2021 at 1:05 PM

Iran Swears In New President | Spyware Complaint at India’s Top Court | U.S. Electric-Vehicles Target

Daily News Brief August 5, 2021 Top of the Agenda Hard-Line Iranian President Sworn In Amid Stalled Nuclear Talks Hard-line cleric and former judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi will be sworn in today (CNN) as Ir…
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August 4, 2021 at 1:03 PM

U.S. Vaccine Donations | Sudan Moves to Join ICC | Turkey’s Objections on Afghan Refugees

Daily News Brief August 4, 2021 Top of the Agenda White House Says It Has Donated 110 Million COVID-19 Vaccine Doses The White House announced it has donated and shipped 110 million doses (NPR) of COVID-19 …
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August 3, 2021 at 1:05 PM

IMF Greenlights Recovery Funds | Asia’s Coal-Fired Plants | U.S. Visa Program for Afghans

Daily News Brief August 3, 2021 Top of the Agenda IMF Approves $650 Billion in Reserves for Pandemic Recovery The International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s board approved its largest-ever disbursement (FT) of $65…
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August 2, 2021 at 1:10 PM

Myanmar’s Junta Extends Emergency | China’s COVID-19 Restrictions | U.S. Blames Iran for Tanker Attack

Daily News Brief August 2, 2021 Top of the Agenda ASEAN Leaders Meet on Myanmar as Junta Extends Emergency Rule Foreign ministers from Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries and other nati…
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July 30, 2021 at 1:30 PM

New U.S. COVID-19 Guidelines | Eurozone Growth | Guatemalan Protests

Daily News Brief July 30, 2021 Top of the Agenda Biden Urges Increased Coronavirus Vaccination Amid Delta’s Spread U.S. President Joe Biden announced that federal employees must be vaccinated (CNN) against …
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July 29, 2021 at 12:59 PM

Grim Report on Afghan State Capacity | China’s New U.S. Ambassador | Mass Trials in Cuba

Daily News Brief July 29, 2021 Top of the Agenda Watchdog: U.S. Spent Billions on Afghanistan but State Capacity Remains Low The U.S. Congress’s independent watchdog on Afghanistan concluded in its latest r…
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July 28, 2021 at 3:01 PM

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July 28, 2021 at 1:04 PM

Blinken Visits India | Tokyo COVID-19 Cases | U.S. Local-Content Rules

Daily News Brief July 28, 2021 Top of the Agenda Blinken’s Visit to New Delhi Highlights U.S. Focus on India as Strategic Partner U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in New Delhi today (Hindu) for mee…
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July 27, 2021 at 12:56 PM

Koreas Restore Military Hotlines | U.S. to End Iraq Combat Mission | Vatican Corruption Trial

Daily News Brief July 27, 2021 Top of the Agenda North Korea, South Korea Restore Military Hotlines  North Korea and South Korea reopened cross-border military hotlines (Yonhap) that had been severed last y…
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July 26, 2021 at 12:58 PM

Tunisia’s Political Crisis | U.S. Air Strikes in Afghanistan | G20 Hung Up on Coal

Daily News Brief July 26, 2021 Top of the Agenda Tunisian President Sacks Prime Minister, Suspends Parliament Tunisian President Kais Saied fired Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi and suspended parliament (Reu…
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July 23, 2021 at 1:21 PM

Tokyo’s Unusual Olympics | Taliban Lays Out Peace Conditions | New Front in Ethiopia War

Daily News Brief July 23, 2021 Top of the Agenda Tokyo Olympics Kick Off Amid Rising COVID-19 Cases The Summer Olympic Games officially began (Kyodo) in Japan today, with an opening ceremony in a largely em…
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July 22, 2021 at 1:07 PM

Nord Stream 2 Deal | Beijing Rejects New COVID-19 Probe | African Vaccinations

Daily News Brief July 22, 2021 Top of the Agenda U.S., Germany Reach Truce on Nord Stream 2 Pipeline The United States and Germany reached an agreement (DW) that will end U.S. objections to the near-complet…
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July 21, 2021 at 1:31 PM

IEA Projects Record Emissions in 2023 | Pegasus Fallout in India | Iranian Water Protests

Daily News Brief July 21, 2021 Top of the Agenda Watchdog Projects Record Carbon Emissions in 2023 Carbon dioxide emissions will rise to a record high in 2023 and continue rising afterward (FT) if countries…
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July 20, 2021 at 12:59 PM

Accusations of Chinese Cyberattacks | Peru’s New President | Haiti’s Power Transition

Daily News Brief July 20, 2021 Top of the Agenda U.S., Allies Accuse China of Cyberattacks The United States and allies including the European Union and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) countries c…
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July 19, 2021 at 1:06 PM

Reported Surveillance of Journalists, Activists | Moon Scraps Tokyo Visit | OPEC+ Reaches Agreement

Daily News Brief July 19, 2021 Top of the Agenda Governments Reportedly Used Israeli Military-Grade Spyware on Journalists, Activists A joint investigation by seventeen media organizations found that spywar…
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July 16, 2021 at 1:00 PM

China’s New Carbon Exchange | Lebanon’s PM-Designate Resigns | Europe Floods

Daily News Brief July 16, 2021 Top of the Agenda China Opens World’s Largest Carbon-Trading Exchange China opened the world’s largest carbon-trading market (SCMP) today after originally pledging to do so ah…
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