Afghanistan The U.S. and the Taliban swapped prisoners: the Taliban released civil engineer Mark Frerichs, who was abducted by a Taliban-linked group in Jan. 2020, and the U.S. released Bashir Noorza …

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Coming Up This Week The UN General Assembly - an annual meeting of world leaders - convenes in New York starting tomorrow. The U.S. reluctantly issued visas for the Russian delegation last week, foll …

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UkrainePresidents Putin and Xi met yesterday, and the readout makes it sound like it was a fairly friendly meeting, but Xi may have subtly rebuked Putin for his invasion of Ukraine: in their public re …

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Ukraine Pres. Zelensky turned up in Izium (near Kharkiv) just five days after Ukrainian troops retook it from Russian occupiers, and boosted morale by re-raising the Ukrainian flag. The location is s …

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Ukraine Reports from recently reclaimed parts of northeast Ukraine depict a retreating Russian army in chaos, leaving weapons and ammunition behind as they flee advancing Ukrainian forces.The Kremlin …

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Azerbaijan Azerbaijan and Armenia both accused each other of starting clashes in multiple cities along their shared border yesterday, and it seems like a bigger deal than their other recent flare-ups …

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