North Korea Fires Ballistic Missile Over Japan, Prompting Evacuation Order

By Michelle Ye Hee Lee | The Washington Post

North Korea launched a suspected intermediate-range ballistic missile over Japan, Japanese and South Korean officials said Tuesday. The missile, which was the first North Korean projectile to pass through Japanese airspace since 2017, landed in the Pacific Ocean.

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Colombia, U.S. Discuss Drug Trafficking, Differences Remain

By Humeyra Pamuk | Reuters

Colombian President Gustavo Petro and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday discussed stepping up intelligence sharing and other drug trafficking measures but announced no agreements and remained at odds on extraditing drug criminals.

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U.S. Said to Plan New Limits on China’s AI and Supercomputing Firms

By Paul Mozur, Ana Swanson & Edward Wong | The New York Times

The Biden administration is expected to announce new measures to restrict Chinese companies from getting access to technologies that enable high-performance computing, according to several people familiar with the matter, the latest in a series of moves aimed at hobbling Beijing’s ambitions to craft next-generation weapons and automate large-scale surveillance systems.

Officials: U.S. to Send Ukraine More Advanced Rocket Systems

By Lolita C. Baldor & Matthew Lee | Associated Press (free)

The U.S. will soon deliver to Ukraine four more of the advanced rocket systems credited with helping the country’s military gain momentum in its war with Russia.

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U.S. Sanctions Bosnian Minister in Anti-Corruption Effort

By Fatima Hussein | Associated Press (free)

The U.S. government imposed sanctions Monday on the head of Bosnia’s autonomous Bosniak-Croat Federation and others, acting less than a week after it levied sanctions on a state prosecutor accused of being complicit in corruption and undermining democratic processes in the Western Balkans.