The United States will be challenged in coming years by nations that exploit “the weakening of the post-WWII international order and dominance of Western democratic ideals” and “increasingly isolationist tendencies in the West,” according to a new intelligence document published Tuesday.

More from WPR: The Liberal World Order Is Dying. What Comes Next?

The Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday issued an emergency directive to all non-national-security agencies requiring them to take steps to protect their networks against a cyber-hijacking campaign that private-sector researchers suggest may be linked to Iran.

More from WPR: How the U.S. Approach to Cyber Conflict Evolved in 2018—and What Could Come Next

Iran said Tuesday it had formally protested the FBI’s arrest of an American newscaster who works for the Iranian government’s Press TV, and her family said rallies in Washington and elsewhere were planned if she was not freed.

More from WPR: Sanctions Alone Won’t Alter Iran’s Behavior in the Middle East

Some pre-9/11 plotters have not yet been brought to justice, even as a new generation of suspects is taking their place.

Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine detained in Moscow on spy charges, was given a flash drive containing a “state secret,” his lawyer said Tuesday, delivering the first official details in a mysterious case that has been wrapped in silence for weeks.

U.S. intelligence officials have met with North Korean counterparts secretly for a decade, a covert channel that allowed communications during tense times, aided in the release of detainees and helped pave the way for President Trump’s historic summit last year with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

The United States will proceed with the formal extradition from Canada of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, Canada’s ambassador to the United States told the Globe and Mail, as Beijing vowed to respond to Washington’s actions.

More from WPR: A Chinese Executive’s Arrest Could Open a New Front in the ‘High-Tech Trade War’

Border security is imperative, but so is ensuring that U.S. federal law enforcement, the intelligence community and other security professionals are able to support their families and fulfill their mission.

More from WPR: A Border Wall Won’t Improve America’s Security—but That’s Beside the Point

A storm is brewing in America’s oldest security alliance in the Indo-Pacific and the Trump administration needs to act quickly to head it off.

What will happen once the United States pulls out.

Amid sharply rising tensions between Washington and Caracas, the U.S.-backed opposition here sought Wednesday to fill the streets with protesters and spark the beginning of a sustained uprising aimed at ousting President Nicolás Maduro from office.

More from WPR: Venezuela’s New Opposition Leader Launches a Bold Gambit to Unseat Maduro

Evo Morales celebrated his 13 years as president on Tuesday—the longest tenure in Bolivian history—with a message of continuity for his economic and social policies, while hoping to govern until 2025.

More from WPR: Reversing His Pledge, Bolivia’s Morales Wants to Push Term Limits Again

The leadership of the Colombian ELN rebel group, which has been in Havana for peace negotiations since last year, has denied any role in a fatal car bombing in Bogota last week, even though the guerrilla organization took responsibility for the attack.

More from WPR: Colombia’s Other Insurgents: Why Peace With the ELN Is Proving Elusive

There’s a good chance that Justin Trudeau and his Liberal Party will continue to govern Canada after the October election. Last week, Trudeau shuffled his cabinet to bring a few new faces to the table. But the change-up reflects a prime minister who seems comfortable with his starting lineup ahead of the big game—and of his chances of winning it.

The death toll from a fuel pipeline explosion in central Mexico last week rose to 91 on Monday as Petroleos Mexicanos defended its response to one of the deadliest incidents to hit the state-run oil company in years.

Members of the Venezuelan National Guard were detained in the capital early Monday, the military said, after online videos showed a group of soldiers pledging allegiance to an opposition leader seeking to oust President Nicolas Maduro.

More from WPR: Venezuela’s New Opposition Leader Launches a Bold Gambit to Unseat Maduro

Venezuelans who want to enter Ecuador will now have to present an official document showing any brushes with the law, the government announced Monday, two days after the killing of a 22-year-old woman sparked a wave of unrest against migrants.

More from WPR: Venezuela’s Neighbors Scramble to Cope With the Region’s Worst Refugee Crisis

The body of a slain journalist was found in northwestern Mexico, authorities said on Monday, adding to a long list of reporters who have fallen victim to record levels of violence in the country.

More than a month after Nicaraguan police raided and occupied his news outlets’ offices, prominent journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro has fled to Costa Rica.

More from WPR: Nicaragua Is Teetering on the Edge of a Civil War

Chilean President Sebastian Pinera announced on Monday a bill to set stiffer fines and jail time for serious violations of the country’s environmental laws, marking a shift toward increasing environmental scrutiny in the world’s top copper producer.

Colombia is pressuring Cuba to turn over leaders of the South American nation’s last remaining rebel group who had been on the island for peace talks that have been stifled by the bombing of a police academy that left 21 dead.

More from WPR: Colombia’s Other Insurgents: Why Peace With the ELN Is Proving Elusive

Russia showed foreign military attaches and journalists a cruise missile system on Wednesday that the United States says breaches a Cold War-era arms control pact, its latest attempt to disprove an allegation it denies and stop Washington quitting the treaty.

Greek lawmakers began debating a historic agreement aimed at normalizing relations with Macedonia in a stormy parliamentary session Wednesday.

More from WPR: It’s Too Early to Call Greece and Macedonia’s Name Agreement a Done Deal

A Russian oligarch allied with Vladi­mir Putin will, along with close associates, maintain majority control of a major energy company from which the Treasury Department is lifting sanctions despite the Trump administration’s promise to hold him accountable as a key beneficiary of Moscow’s “malign activity” worldwide.

More from WPR: Lifting U.S. Sanctions on a Russian Aluminum Giant Is Not a Gift to the Kremlin

As Syria courts investors to rebuild its war-shattered cities, it may find a fresh round of European sanctions standing in its way.

More from WPR: Talk of the Endgame in Syria Dodges the Question of Recovery

Scenes from Switzerland’s annual gathering of the rich and clueless.

When a refugee killed a fourteen-year-old girl, Germany’s far right saw opportunity in tragedy.

Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine detained in Moscow on spy charges, was given a flash drive containing a “state secret,” his lawyer said Tuesday, delivering the first official details in a mysterious case that has been wrapped in silence for weeks.

After her Brexit plan went down to the most resounding defeat in modern British history, Prime Minister Theresa May was told to come back with a Plan B. She did that Monday. But her Plan B looked a lot like Plan A, setting the stage for another battle royale with rebellious British lawmakers over Brexit, or the process of withdrawing Britain from the European Union.

More from WPR: Can Theresa May Pull Off a Brexit Breakthrough in a Divided Britain?

German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Tuesday against rising nationalism in Europe and called for a revival of cross-border cooperation as she and her French counterpart signed a pact renewing their countries’ decades-long friendship.

More from WPR: Macron, Merkel, May: Drama, Tragedy and Farce in the EU

The European Union sanctioned on Monday two senior Russian military intelligence officials and two of their officers blamed for poisoning a former Russian double agent in Britain last year, a decision Moscow dismissed as groundless.

Unidentified attackers threw petrol bombs at a police station in the Portuguese city of Setubal and torched cars in the capital Lisbon, hours after a protest against police violence ended in clashes, authorities said.

Any deal to end a territorial row with Japan needs public backing, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday after meeting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, giving a nod to widespread Russian opposition to ceding territory to Japan.

More from WPR: Will Abe Be the Japanese Leader to Finally Sign a Peace Treaty With Russia?

A car driving the wrong way down a street struck a policeman near the Polish president’s headquarters Tuesday before speeding off and ramming into a metal barrier protecting the driveway of the building, officials said. A man was detained at the scene.

Google has been fined nearly $57 million by French regulators for violating Europe’s tough new data-privacy rules, marking the first major penalty brought against a U.S. technology giant since the regionwide regulations took effect last year.

Spain’s minority Socialist government suffered its first major legislative defeat on Tuesday when its main ally in Parliament, Podemos, sided with the opposition to throw out its decree on housing, exposing the administration’s weakness.

More from WPR: The Honeymoon Is Over for Spain’s New Socialist Government

Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has revoked special visas for European Union diplomats and officials traveling regularly between Beirut and Damascus, complicating efforts to distribute aid to civil war victims, three senior EU diplomats said.

More from WPR: Talk of the Endgame in Syria Dodges the Question of Recovery

Germany has banned Iran’s Mahan Air from landing in the country with immediate effect, citing security concerns and the airline’s involvement in Syria, officials said Monday.

More from WPR: Going It Alone, Trump’s Iran Sanctions Will Backfire

In Poland, hateful language is ubiquitous. Its consequences can be deadly.

Spain has long resisted the rise of the far-right, because Basque and Catalan separatism animated nationalist passions—but the rise of Vox in Andalusia shows that the country is not immune from xenophobic politics.

More from WPR: Andalusia’s Regional Elections Signal Trouble Ahead for Spain’s Established Parties

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa promised on Tuesday to investigate a brutal crackdown by security forces on anti-government protesters, as two of his supporters spoke of a possible plot to remove him from office.

As many as 20,000 women and girls are feared to have been trafficked from Nigeria to Mali where they are stranded after being forced into prostitution, the head of Nigeria’s anti-trafficking agency said on Tuesday.

Atiku Abubakar, the leading opposition challenger to Nigeria’s president, has said he would seek to overhaul oil production deals with international companies and push for energy reforms if he won next month’s presidential election.

More than a year after the ousting of long-serving President Robert Mugabe in a military coup, and six months after the election of new President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Zimbabwe is once more in crisis. Security forces have cracked down brutally on large-scale protests, leaving at least 12 dead, hundreds injured and more than 600 detained. To resolve the crisis, leaders in Zimbabwe, the region and internationally will have to look beyond the artificially constrained choices of the past.

Both the president and his main challenger failed to show up last Saturday, but the debate battled on anyway.

The Constitutional Court of the Democratic Republic of Congo ruled early Sunday on the results of the country’s highly contested election, determining that the opposition candidate Felix Tshisekedi was in fact the winner and rejecting a challenge from another opposition figure who was the runner-up.

More from WPR: Kabila Is Finally Departing, but Congo’s Future Is as Uncertain as Ever

The crackdown has led to 12 deaths, 78 gunshot wounds, hundreds of instances of assault or torture, and enough arrests to fill prisons beyond capacity, according to the Zimbab­we Human Rights NGO Forum, an umbrella organization that compiles reports from observers across the country.

Sudan’s embattled president is flying to Qatar, the tiny but wealthy Gulf state that has offered him help as he faces protests initially sparked by the country’s economic woes but shifting to calling on him to step down.

More from WPR: Can Bashir, a Brutal Survivor, Ride Out the Growing Wave of Protests in Sudan?

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa called on Tuesday for sanctions against Zimbabwe to be lifted and said his government was in discussions with Harare about how best to help.

Uganda has deported a French and a Rwandan executive from telecoms group MTN, accusing them of planning to compromise national security, while other employees were being investigated for alleged incitement to violence, police said on Tuesday.

Burkina Faso’s president has nominated a new prime minister after a mass resignation last week.

More from WPR: Jihadists Open a New Front in Burkina Faso as the Army Plays Into Their Hands

Kenya’s security services failed to heed warnings of an impending attack, but otherwise responded much more quickly and effectively than before.

More from WPR: Deadly Hotel Attack by al-Shabab Sends a Message to Kenya—and Washington

The Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday issued an emergency directive to all non-national-security agencies requiring them to take steps to protect their networks against a cyber-hijacking campaign that private-sector researchers suggest may be linked to Iran.

More from WPR: How the U.S. Approach to Cyber Conflict Evolved in 2018—and What Could Come Next

Iran said Tuesday it had formally protested the FBI’s arrest of an American newscaster who works for the Iranian government’s Press TV, and her family said rallies in Washington and elsewhere were planned if she was not freed.

More from WPR: Sanctions Alone Won’t Alter Iran’s Behavior in the Middle East

As Syria courts investors to rebuild its war-shattered cities, it may find a fresh round of European sanctions standing in its way.

More from WPR: Talk of the Endgame in Syria Dodges the Question of Recovery

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has arrived in Moscow for Syria-focused talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin as their governments bargain over zones of influence in the war-torn country.

With few independent outlets left, more journalists in Turkey now face jail time, fines, or getting fired for doing their job.

More from WPR: Muzzling the Press: Turkey’s Long War Against the Media

Sudan’s embattled president is flying to Qatar, the tiny but wealthy Gulf state that has offered him help as he faces protests initially sparked by the country’s economic woes but shifting to calling on him to step down.

More from WPR: Can Bashir, a Brutal Survivor, Ride Out the Growing Wave of Protests in Sudan?

Egypt said Tuesday at least seven troops, including an officer, have been killed in clashes with militants in recent operations in restive northern Sinai Peninsula, where its security forces have been battling a long-running insurgency led by a local affiliate of the Islamic State group.

A car bombing targeted a joint American-Kurdish patrol in Syria on Monday, injuring a number of fighters from a Kurdish-led force allied with the United States. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack.

More from WPR: The Shape of Syria to Come

Suleiman al-Afari recounted his recruitment and life under the Islamic State in a rare interview inside the fortresslike headquarters of the Kurdistan Regional Government’s Counterterrorism Department. An affable, neatly groomed man, Afari is among the few known participants in the Islamic State’s chemical weapons program to be captured alive.

Israel made the unusual move Monday of announcing a strike on Iran-linked forces in Syria after a rocket attack, as it enters into an increasingly open confrontation with its arch foe that is also increasing friction with Moscow.

An Israeli tank fired into the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, killing a Hamas militant in what the army described as retaliation for the wounding of a soldier and a brief incursion during a violent Palestinian border protest.

Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has revoked special visas for European Union diplomats and officials traveling regularly between Beirut and Damascus, complicating efforts to distribute aid to civil war victims, three senior EU diplomats said.

More from WPR: Talk of the Endgame in Syria Dodges the Question of Recovery

Germany has banned Iran’s Mahan Air from landing in the country with immediate effect, citing security concerns and the airline’s involvement in Syria, officials said Monday.

More from WPR: Going It Alone, Trump’s Iran Sanctions Will Backfire

A political alliance between Israel’s left wing and Arab parties could topple Benjamin Netanyahu.

More from WPR: Why Israel’s Upcoming Election Is a Show About Nothing

What will happen once the United States pulls out.

About a dozen Chinese labor activists and university students have either gone missing or been detained by police this week, sources told Reuters, amid a deepening crackdown on activists seeking improved rights for factory workers.

More from WPR: A Campaign of Suppression on Chinese Campuses Ensnares Young Communists

South Korea’s military accused Japan of a “clear provocation” over what it said was a threatening low-altitude flight by a Japanese patrol plane over a South Korean warship on Wednesday.

More from WPR: In South Korea, a Supreme Court Decision Opens Up Deep Historical Wounds

Afghanistan’s main spy agency said on Wednesday it had killed the Taliban commander behind a deadly attack on one of its bases this week, and vowed to hunt down and kill all the rest of those involved.

More from WPR: Afghanistan’s Islamic Emirate Returns: Life Under a Resurgent Taliban

U.S. intelligence officials have met with North Korean counterparts secretly for a decade, a covert channel that allowed communications during tense times, aided in the release of detainees and helped pave the way for President Trump’s historic summit last year with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

A Taliban suicide bomber in a captured U.S. Humvee crashed through the entrance to a provincial training compound of the Afghan intelligence service, followed by several gunmen, in an attack Monday that left scores of trainees and others dead or wounded.

More from WPR: Afghanistan’s Islamic Emirate Returns: Life Under a Resurgent Taliban

Days after the White House announced plans for a second nuclear summit between the United States and North Korea, a think tank report has identified a secret North Korean ballistic missile base about 160 miles northwest of Seoul that is reportedly the headquarters of the country’s strategic missile force.

The Chinese economy grew last year at its slowest rate since 1990, adding to the urgency for President Xi Jinping to reach a trade deal with the United States.

The United States will proceed with the formal extradition from Canada of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, Canada’s ambassador to the United States told the Globe and Mail, as Beijing vowed to respond to Washington’s actions.

More from WPR: A Chinese Executive’s Arrest Could Open a New Front in the ‘High-Tech Trade War’

Any deal to end a territorial row with Japan needs public backing, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday after meeting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, giving a nod to widespread Russian opposition to ceding territory to Japan.

More from WPR: Will Abe Be the Japanese Leader to Finally Sign a Peace Treaty With Russia?

China has pledged $588 million in aid to Cambodia from 2019 to 2021, Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Tuesday, highlighting strong ties between Beijing and Phnom Penh amid a European Union threat of trade sanctions.

Indonesia’s president said on Tuesday a radical Muslim cleric linked to the 2002 Bali bombings would only be released from jail if he pledged loyalty to the state and its ideology, after news he would be freed unconditionally sparked criticism.

More from WPR: Religion Again Looks to Dominate Indonesia’s Contentious Presidential Election

Muslims in the southern Philippines voted Monday in a referendum on a new autonomous region that seeks to end nearly half a century of unrest, in what their leaders are touting as the best alternative to a new wave of Islamic State group-inspired militants.

More from WPR: Is Duterte’s Green Light for Autonomy in the Southern Philippines a Path to Peace?

A storm is brewing in America’s oldest security alliance in the Indo-Pacific and the Trump administration needs to act quickly to head it off.

Political reform paved the way for the collapse of the Qing dynasty, and it is coming for Beijing once again.