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| August 11, 2021, 3:00 am SEOUL—Kim Jong Un’s sister vowed North Korea would amp up its national defense and deterrence after joint U.S.-South Korea military exercises that she demanded be |
| August 10, 2021, 9:38 pm PARIS—Julien Zerbos turned away some would-be diners on Monday from the brasserie on Paris’s Champs-Élysées where he works because they didn’t have the European Union’s |
| August 10, 2021, 9:00 pm Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed urged “all capable Ethiopians” to join the army, special forces and regional militias to support the fight against rebel Tigrayan |
| August 10, 2021, 6:00 pm KABUL—Afghanistan’s foreign minister called for international sanctions to be reimposed on Taliban leaders as the insurgent movement seized another province, tightening its grip on the |
| August 10, 2021, 6:00 pm HONG KONG—Outbreaks of the Covid-19 Delta variant are threatening to slow China’s economic recovery and raising concerns about the costs of the country’s strict coronavirus |
| August 10, 2021, 3:40 pm Monday’s report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change indicated that among other consequences of global warming, heavy rains fueled by warmer air will increase |
| August 10, 2021, 3:00 pm In most of the world, the Covid-19 pandemic was a blunt reminder for governments of how valuable their healthcare workers really are. Not in Myanmar.
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| August 10, 2021, 12:00 pm MINSK, Belarus—Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko struck a defiant note at an hourslong televised briefing a year after claiming victory in a disputed election, scoffing at |
| August 10, 2021, 12:00 pm HONG KONG—A Chinese court reaffirmed the death penalty for a Canadian national convicted of drug smuggling in a case that has taken on increased geopolitical |
| August 10, 2021, 12:00 pm SEOUL—Kim Jong Un’s sister vowed North Korea would amp up its national defense and deterrence after joint U.S.-South Korea military exercises that she demanded be |
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