Iran The U.S. and Iran finalized an agreement that will secure the release of five American citizens jailed (but recently moved to house arrest) in Iran in exchange for the U.S. allowing Iran to clai …

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Coming Up This Week Pres. Biden is in Vietnam this week and formally upgraded U.S.-Vietnam diplomatic relations to the highest status: "comprehensive strategic partnership." As part of that partnersh …

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Russia Ukraine's military intelligence agency released a video featuring Capt. Maksim Kuzminov, who last month became the first Russian pilot to defect to Ukraine since the war began. A WSJ article p …

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China The WSJ reports that Italy is trying to negotiate a smooth end to its participation in China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which hasn't proven to be as prosperous as Italy had hoped it wo …

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Gabon Many reports suggest the coup in Gabon has strong popular support: Gabonese are fed up with economic stagnation over 56 years of Bongo family rule. If it holds - which appears likely, given the …

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Russia Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin and other members of Wagner's top brass were killed by an apparent explosion aboard their Embraer Legacy 600 private plane over Russia.Western officials …

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