Despite significant tensions over a Russian troop buildup at the Ukrainian border, U.S. diplomats have overcome a months-long standoff with the Kremlin on the granting of visas for U.S. Embassy personnel in Moscow during a meeting with Russian counterparts in Vienna, said U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

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Mexico has agreed to allow the United States to restart a contentious Trump-era asylum program that requires certain migrants to wait in Mexico while their cases are pending, complicating the Biden administration’s efforts to roll back the former president’s restrictive immigration policies.

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Chinese ride-hailing group Didi Chuxing said it would delist from the New York Stock Exchange, accelerating China’s decoupling from U.S. capital markets as Beijing cracks down on the country’s leading technology groups.

America’s top diplomat Antony Blinken is expected to warn his Russian counterpart Thursday against invading Ukraine, as Moscow warns Kiev against any attempt to retake the Crimea peninsula.

A U.S. State Department official Wednesday expressed concern over reporters, corruption fighters and activists who have recently come under fire from the government.

Mexico’s foreign ministry has said the Mexican and U.S. foreign development agencies will work together on a project to address the root causes of migration from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.

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The U.S. and South Korea said they would update their joint wartime contingency plans for North Korea, as the Kim Jong Un regime has kept pursuing military advances amid a stall in nuclear talks.

Mexico has agreed to allow the United States to restart a contentious Trump-era asylum program that requires certain migrants to wait in Mexico while their cases are pending, complicating the Biden administration’s efforts to roll back the former president’s restrictive immigration policies.

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The government of incoming Honduran president Xiomara Castro does not plan to establish diplomatic ties with China as it prioritizes U.S. relations, a high-ranking ally of Castro said Thursday, signaling a reversal of her pre-election stance.

Peruvian prosecutors said Thursday they will question socialist President Pedro Castillo as part of an investigation into the promotion of certain military officers, adding to pressure on the leader as lawmakers weigh an impeachment process.

The midterm elections dealt a historic blow to President Alberto Fernandez and his Frente de Todos coalition, while solidifying Juntos por el Cambio as a competitive political rival.

A U.S. State Department official Wednesday expressed concern over reporters, corruption fighters and activists who have recently come under fire from the government.

Former Argentine President Mauricio Macri was formally charged Wednesday with illegally spying on relatives of sailors whose submarine sank in 2017, one of the most embarrassing incidents of his presidency.

Mexico’s foreign ministry has said the Mexican and U.S. foreign development agencies will work together on a project to address the root causes of migration from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.

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Argentina recorded more than 250 femicides in 2020, one every 35 hours. Forty-one of the victims had previously filed complaints.

Despite significant tensions over a Russian troop buildup at the Ukrainian border, U.S. diplomats have overcome a months-long standoff with the Kremlin on the granting of visas for U.S. Embassy personnel in Moscow during a meeting with Russian counterparts in Vienna, said U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

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Austria’s ruling party Friday named Interior Minister Karl Nehammer to lead the conservative camp and the country after the shock resignation of former chancellor Sebastian Kurz as party head caused fresh political upheaval.

The Russian military has deployed coastal defense missile systems near the Kuril Islands, a Pacific chain also claimed by Japan. The move appeared intended to underline Moscow’s firm stance in the dispute.

France announced multibillion-euro deals Friday to sell fighter planes and combat helicopters to the United Arab Emirates, aiming to boost military cooperation with its top ally in the Persian Gulf amid their shared concerns about Iran.

Bosnian police Friday arrested seven people suspected of war crimes against civilians during the 1992-95 conflict in the Balkan country, the security authorities said.

With a presidential election looming, French presidential hopefuls are hardening their positions against immigration even as other countries compete for migrant workers.

America’s top diplomat Antony Blinken is expected to warn his Russian counterpart Thursday against invading Ukraine, as Moscow warns Kiev against any attempt to retake the Crimea peninsula.

President Vladimir Putin of Russia demanded “legal guarantees” Wednesday that the NATO alliance would never expand eastward, ratcheting up the stakes as the West scrambled to respond to Russia’s military buildup near Ukraine.

Hungary and Poland’s legal challenge to the EU’s crackdown on rule of law breaches has suffered a serious setback after a legal opinion recommended their claim should be dismissed.

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Meta, the parent company of Facebook, said it has linked Belarus’s main security service, the KGB, to fake accounts on its social media platforms that criticized Poland during the countries’ recent border standoff.

Austria’s ex-chancellor Sebastian Kurz on Thursday said he was quitting politics, just two months after resigning as national leader following his implication in a corruption scandal.

Iran has provided European powers involved in its tattered nuclear deal with drafts on sanctions removal and nuclear commitments, Iran’s top nuclear negotiator said Thursday, as world powers and Tehran try to reinstate the pact.

The EU set the stage for Belarus’s cynical ploy.

Six candidates, including incumbent President Adama Barrow, vying for the country’s top post in Saturday’s election.

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Infighting among Anglophone separatists and denial by the Cameroonian government are escalating the ongoing conflict.

The U.N. chief had a piece of good news Wednesday in the midst of Ethiopia’s year-long war against forces from the Tigray region: 157 trucks with food and humanitarian aid arrived in Tigray’s capital for the first time in more than six weeks and another aid convoy was moving.

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A critical Chinese-African summit offers a chance for a U.S. policy rethink.

France announced multibillion-euro deals Friday to sell fighter planes and combat helicopters to the United Arab Emirates, aiming to boost military cooperation with its top ally in the Persian Gulf amid their shared concerns about Iran.

Lebanon’s information minister resigned Friday, saying he hoped the much anticipated move will open the way for easing an unprecedented diplomatic crisis with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Arab countries. That crisis has added to immense economic troubles facing Lebanon, already mired in a financial meltdown.

A Libyan court Thursday overturned a decision by the country’s top electoral body that disqualified the son of the late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi from running in upcoming presidential elections.

An attack by Islamic State militants on a village in northern Iraq killed at least 12 people, including a number of Kurdish forces, Kurdish media reported Friday.

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan named a loyalist as the country’s new finance minister Thursday, after the incumbent resigned over clashes with the longtime leader’s unconventional economic policies that have intensified a currency crisis shaking the country.

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Iran has provided European powers involved in its tattered nuclear deal with drafts on sanctions removal and nuclear commitments, Iran’s top nuclear negotiator said Thursday, as world powers and Tehran try to reinstate the pact.

The government of incoming Honduran president Xiomara Castro does not plan to establish diplomatic ties with China as it prioritizes U.S. relations, a high-ranking ally of Castro said Thursday, signaling a reversal of her pre-election stance.

The Russian military has deployed coastal defense missile systems near the Kuril Islands, a Pacific chain also claimed by Japan. The move appeared intended to underline Moscow’s firm stance in the dispute.

Chinese ride-hailing group Didi Chuxing said it would delist from the New York Stock Exchange, accelerating China’s decoupling from U.S. capital markets as Beijing cracks down on the country’s leading technology groups.

Philippine troops killed an Islamic rebel leader and four of his men in fighting in the volatile south in the latest setback for insurgent forces aligned with the Islamic State group, military officials said Friday.

The Taliban decreed Friday that they are banning the forced marriage of women in the war-torn country, in what appears to be a move to address criteria that developed nations consider a precondition to recognize their government and restore aid.

Indonesian police have confirmed the charging of eight Papuan students with treason after a demonstration this week marking what many people in the remote region regard as their own day of independence.

The Court of Appeals in the Philippines said Friday that it would allow the journalist Maria Ressa to travel to Norway to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, after the government tried to block her from attending the ceremony.

A bid by the new Taliban government in Afghanistan and the junta ruling Myanmar to gain international recognition suffered a blow Wednesday when the United Nations put off a decision on the rightful representatives of both countries.

Australia passed new rules Thursday that will make it easier to sanction accused human-rights abusers, becoming the latest U.S. ally to pass a law styled after the U.S. Magnitsky Act.

Cambodia’s strongman Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has led the country for more than three decades, on Thursday backed his eldest son to take over the top job, paving the way for a political dynasty.

The U.S. and South Korea said they would update their joint wartime contingency plans for North Korea, as the Kim Jong Un regime has kept pursuing military advances amid a stall in nuclear talks.

Beijing summoned the Japanese ambassador to China over former prime minister Abe Shinzo’s “extremely erroneous remarks” on Taiwan, the foreign ministry said Thursday, as tensions rise over the democratic island.

Four years after the #MeToo movement rocked global halls of power, one of its most politically consequential cases to date is unfolding in the unlikeliest of places: China. And unsurprisingly, the government there is trying to silence the dissent.

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