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| August 11, 2021, 6:00 pm KABUL—Afghan President Ashraf Ghani replaced the country’s army chief on Wednesday and flew to the besieged northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif, trying to organize its defenses |
| August 11, 2021, 6:00 pm The conclusion of the latest report by the United Nations advisory body on climate—that temperatures are rising, and some effects are irreversible—wasn’t surprising. Those views |
| August 11, 2021, 6:00 pm MOSCOW—Belarus announced retaliatory action against Washington, including rescinding its consent of the appointment of the U.S. ambassador, in response to the latest U.S. sanctions on |
| August 11, 2021, 6:00 pm WASHINGTON—The White House urged OPEC to boost oil production Wednesday, saying recent planned increases are insufficient as countries around the world seek to emerge from |
| August 11, 2021, 3:00 pm Ethiopian authorities have launched reprisals against ethnic Tigrayans across the country, arresting hundreds and accusing members of the minority group of supporting rebels who have |
| August 11, 2021, 12:00 pm LONDON—The latest surge of Covid-19 cases in the U.K. is giving rise to growing optimism among doctors and scientists that the highly transmissible Delta variant |
| August 11, 2021, 12:00 pm NEW DELHI—India is in negotiations with Western vaccine makers in an effort to secure tens of millions of doses in the next few months, which |
| August 11, 2021, 12:00 pm BERLIN—Germany’s Green Party wants to overhaul the economic, foreign and climate policies of the continent’s largest economy in a political realignment that could have a |
| August 11, 2021, 6:00 am HONG KONG—A Chinese court sentenced entrepreneur Michael Spavor to 11 years in prison on espionage charges in the first of two national-security cases involving Canadian |
| August 11, 2021, 3:14 am A Chinese court sentenced Canadian entrepreneur Michael Spavor to 11 years in prison on espionage charges in the first of two national-security cases involving Canadian |
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