The Justice Department reached an agreement Friday clearing the way for a senior executive of Huawei Technologies, the Chinese telecommunications giant, to return to China after admitting some wrongdoing in a sanctions violation case, removing one major irritant between the two superpowers.

U.S. President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan will travel to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates along with the U.S. special envoy to Yemen, the White House National Security Council said Monday.

U.S. officials are set to tour Latin America this week to scout infrastructure projects as they prepare a counter to Chinese President Xi Jinping’s multi-trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative.

If Biden is serious about fighting corruption, he needs to regulate 10 key white-collar professions.

The United States needs to prepare for a major war, not because its rival is rising but because of the opposite.

U.S. officials are set to tour Latin America this week to scout infrastructure projects as they prepare a counter to Chinese President Xi Jinping’s multi-trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative.

The latest round of negotiations between Venezuela’s government and the country’s opposition were suspended Friday when the government’s delegates failed to appear in Mexico City.

Peruvian Prime Minister Guido Bellido on Sunday said that companies which exploit natural gas in Peru will need to agree to pay higher taxes or else face nationalizations, a sharp warning to the sector from the new leftist government.

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Cuba said Saturday it had exported its three-shot Abdala coronavirus vaccine for the first time, sending an initial shipment to Vietnam as part of a contract to supply five million doses to the Southeast Asian country.

A treaty with rebels in 2016 called for the end of a decades-long war. But that is not the same as achieving peace, and the window for doing so may be closing.

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The body of Abimael Guzman, the leader of Peru’s brutal Shining Path insurgency who died on Sept. 11, was cremated Friday.

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When leaders reclaim criticism about violence, dictatorship, and racism as a badge of honor, they move one step closer to authoritarianism.

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As Germany’s election results came into sharper focus Monday, no party won decisive majority but the loser was clear: Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats.

The United Kingdom, hoping to ease a supply-chain crisis and forestall a Christmas logjam, will grant temporary visas to more than 10,000 foreigners to work as truck drivers and in the food industry.

Voters in Switzerland overwhelmingly decided Sunday to legalize same-sex marriage, making the country one of the last in Western Europe to do so.

Tensions escalated along the disputed Kosovo-Serbia border at the weekend as ethnic Serbs set a government office ablaze and hurled hand grenades at another, in protest over a ban on cars with Serbian license plates entering Kosovo.

Mali has asked a private Russian military company to help it fight against insurgents, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said Saturday at the United Nations.

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The Royal Navy said a British warship was sailing through the Taiwan Strait on Monday, a rare voyage by a non-U.S. military vessel through the sensitive waterway that is likely to strain ties with Beijing.

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s 16 years in charge of Germany are coming to a close. Just not quite yet.

Mali could push back presidential and legislative elections from late February to avoid their validity being contested, its prime minister handling a post-coup transition said.

Mahamat Idriss Deby, the head of Chad’s military government, has named 93 members of a new interim parliament, five months after declaring himself leader following the death of his father, longtime President Idriss Deby.

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Sudan’s military says it has repelled an attempted incursion by Ethiopian forces in the border area between the two countries.

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Mali has asked a private Russian military company to help it fight against insurgents, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said Saturday at the United Nations.

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Rwandan forces will help secure and rebuild areas of northern Mozambique destroyed by an Islamist insurgency, Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame said Friday, as Mozambican officials began encouraging civilians to return to the gas-rich region.

U.S. President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan will travel to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates along with the U.S. special envoy to Yemen, the White House National Security Council said Monday.

Hundreds of protesters have rallied in Tunisia’s capital to protest against President Kais Saied’s move to seize governing powers.

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More than 100 prominent officials of Tunisia’s Islamist Ennahda party, including lawmakers and former ministers, resigned Saturday in protest at the leadership’s performance, the biggest blow yet to the party which is facing a severe split.

The U.N. nuclear watchdog said Sunday that Iran had failed to fully honor the terms of a deal struck two weeks ago to allow the watchdog’s inspectors to service monitoring equipment in the country.

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The government has held high-level meetings with Palestinian officials and aided the Palestinians economically, a sharp change from the previous government.

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Israeli troops conducted a series of arrest raids against suspected Hamas militants across the occupied West Bank early Sunday, sparking a pair of gun battles in which five Palestinians were killed and two Israeli soldiers were seriously wounded.

The Justice Department reached an agreement Friday clearing the way for a senior executive of Huawei Technologies, the Chinese telecommunications giant, to return to China after admitting some wrongdoing in a sanctions violation case, removing one major irritant between the two superpowers.

Cuba said Saturday it had exported its three-shot Abdala coronavirus vaccine for the first time, sending an initial shipment to Vietnam as part of a contract to supply five million doses to the Southeast Asian country.

Widening power shortages in China have halted production at numerous factories including many supplying Apple and Tesla, while some shops in the northeast operated by candlelight and malls shut early as the economic toll of the squeeze mounted.

The Royal Navy said a British warship was sailing through the Taiwan Strait on Monday, a rare voyage by a non-U.S. military vessel through the sensitive waterway that is likely to strain ties with Beijing.

Thousands of Indian farmers blocked traffic on major roads and railway tracks outside of the nation’s capital Monday, marking one year of demonstrations against government-backed laws that they say will shatter their livelihoods.

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The United States needs to prepare for a major war, not because its rival is rising but because of the opposite.