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Japan’s Fumio Kishida met President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv on Tuesday during a rare, unannounced visit by a Japanese leader that underscored Tokyo’s emphatic support...
Mexican president says more fentanyl enters the U.S. and Canada than Mexico
Greater quantities of synthetic opioid fentanyl directly enter the United States and Canada than Mexico, Mexico’s president said on Thursday, pushing back against U.S. criticism...
New U.S. sanctions target Iranian petroleum, petrochemical trade
The United States imposed sanctions on Thursday on firms it said had transported or sold Iranian petroleum or petrochemical products in violation of U.S. restrictions,...
Ukraine clings to Bakhmut, Blinken tells Lavrov U.S. will back Kyiv all the way
Ukrainian forces held out in the eastern city of Bakhmut against Russian attackers on Thursday, while the top U.S. diplomat told his Russian counterpart in...
Ex-producer Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 16 years on L.A. rape conviction
Harvey Weinstein, the onetime Hollywood titan who came to epitomize a culture of pervasive sexual misconduct by powerful men that ignited the #MeToo movement, was...
Biden says he’ll speak to China’s Xi about balloon incident
President Joe Biden said on Thursday he expects to speak with China’s President Xi Jinping about what the United States says was a Chinese spy...
Tesla recalls 362,000 U.S. vehicles over Full Self-Driving software
Tesla Inc TSLA.O said it would recall 362,000 U.S. vehicles to update its Full Self-Driving (FSD) Beta software after U.S. regulators said on Thursday the driver assistance...
One man’s battle to return Cyprus’ Moon rock
Missing for nearly 50 years, Cyprus’ Moon rock was finally returned in December. That we got it back at all is thanks to Joseph Gutheinz...
Two failed populist coups: compare and contrast
Pundits are making much of the similarities between the attempted coup in Washington by Trump supporters two years ago and the one by Bolsonaro supporters...
Chinese jet came within 10 feet of U.S. military aircraft – U.S. military
A Chinese military plane came within 10 feet (3 metres) of a U.S. air force aircraft in the contested South China Sea last week and...