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Earlier this month, senior U.S. and Chinese trade negotiators held a virtual round of talks to discuss concerns over the state of bilateral commercial...
With its rich natural gas reserves and strategic location, the Gulf monarchy of Qatar has long played an important role in regional and global diploma...
After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, the United States and its allies enjoyed a near monopoly on economic, military and...
The government of Lithuania caused a stir this summer when it announced that it would allow Taiwan to open a de facto embassy in the capital, Vilnius,...
According to a report released last week, 2020 was the deadliest year on record for environmental and land rights activists around the world. The huma...
The history of Europe’s Age of Exploration and Empire usually follows a familiar narrative. Starting in the late 15th century, European explorers set ...
The 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly will kick off next week in New York, and over the course of the following week, the assembly w...
Most African countries have fared relatively well in their responses to the coronavirus pandemic, reporting rates of infection and mortality that are ...
Relief efforts are continuing in Haiti following the 7.2-magnitude earthquake that hit the country on Aug. 14, causing widespread destruction in the s...
The results of China’s once-a-decade census, released in May after a one-month delay, showed that the population of mainland China grew at an average ...