Iran The five Americans who were released as part of the latest U.S.-Iran hostage swap were flown back to the U.S. yesterday.One of the freed Americans - Siamak Namazi, who Iran held for eight years …

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Coming Up This Week The UN's Sustainable Development Goals summit starts today and ends tomorrow. Protesters plan to gather outside the meetings to urge world leaders to do more to combat climate cha …

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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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