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| July 27, 2021, 9:00 am SEOUL—North Korea reopened direct communication lines with South Korea, raising the prospect that the Kim Jong Un regime could be ready for engagement after a |
| July 27, 2021, 9:00 am HONG KONG—The first person charged under a national-security law imposed by Beijing was found guilty of inciting secession and terrorism, a court ruled Tuesday, in |
| July 27, 2021, 9:00 am TOKYO—Russia’s military doesn’t stand down for the Olympics.
On Tuesday, Moscow was set to begin military exercises |
| July 27, 2021, 9:00 am TOKYO—Tokyo on Tuesday set a new daily record for Covid-19 cases, reporting 2,848 new infections on the fifth day of the Summer Olympics, which are |
| July 26, 2021, 11:52 pm China’s main technology-sector regulator ordered the country’s internet giants to fix certain anticompetitive practices and data security threats, building on a regulatory campaign to reform |
| July 26, 2021, 11:52 pm BioNTech SE said it would invest some of the profits from the Covid-19 vaccine it markets with Pfizer Inc. into developing shots for |
| July 26, 2021, 11:52 pm VAN, Turkey—When the Taliban swept across northern Afghanistan in June, burning shops and executing government soldiers, Jamal Naser and Farida Kohi fled with their four |
| July 26, 2021, 11:52 pm KABUL—Civilian casualties of war in Afghanistan surged in the first half of the year as the U.S. began withdrawing forces from the country and the |
| July 26, 2021, 11:52 pm WASHINGTON—President Biden said the U.S. combat mission in Iraq would conclude by the end of 2021, but the U.S. military would continue to work with |
| July 26, 2021, 11:52 pm Scores of Cubans who participated in recent mass protests have received sentences of up to one year in prison or house arrest in summary trials |
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