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US to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11
President Joe Biden plans to withdraw the remaining 2,500 U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, 2021, 20 years to ...Japan to release contaminated Fukushima water into sea after treatment
Japan will release more than 1 million tonnes of contaminated water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear station into the sea, ...Banker Lasso wins surprise victory in Ecuador election
Ecuadorean banker Guillermo Lasso unexpectedly won the nation’s presidency on promises to revive an economy battered by coronavirus as his ...England’s lockdown eases again as shops and pub gardens reopen
People queued up outside retailers across England on Monday to release their pent-up shopping fever and some grabbed a midnight ...South African variant can ‘break through’ Pfizer vaccine
The coronavirus variant discovered in South Africa can “break through” Pfizer/BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine to some extent, a real-world data study ...China fines Alibaba record $2.75 billion for anti-monopoly violations
China slapped a record 18 billion yuan ($2.75 billion) fine on Alibaba Group Holding Ltd on Saturday, after an anti-monopoly ...Prince Philip, husband of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, dies at 99
Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth’s husband and a pivotal figure in the British royal family for almost seven decades, has died ...Iran frees South Korean ship, captain after promise to help with frozen funds
Iran released on Friday a South Korean ship and its captain detained since January after South Korea promised to try ...Russian force on Ukraine border larger than any time since 2014, U.S. says
Russia has more troops on Ukraine’s eastern border than at any time since 2014, when it annexed Crimea and backed ...Nile countries trade blame as dam talks end without breakthrough
Ethiopia on Tuesday accused Egypt and Sudan of obstructing talks on its contested dam on the Nile, which ended with ...