The White House laid out a plan Monday to share 55 million U.S. COVID-19 vaccine doses globally, with roughly 75 percent of the doses allocated to Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia and Africa through the COVAX international vaccine-sharing program.

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The United States is in talks with some of the key actors in Libya over the withdrawal of foreign forces ahead of elections planned for December, Washington’s top Libya envoy said Monday.

The United States, the European Union and Britain imposed sweeping sanctions on Belarusian entities and officials Monday and called on Minsk “to end its repressive practices against its own people.”

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China’s longest-serving ambassador to Washington, Cui Tiankai, said Tuesday he will be leaving his post after eight years, amid strained relations between the world’s two largest economies.

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The U.S. sent 2.5 million doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to Taiwan on Sunday, tripling an earlier pledge in a donation with both public health and geopolitical meaning.

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U.S. President Joe Biden plans to host Israel’s new president, Reuven Rivlin, at the White House on June 28, the White House said Saturday.

Iranian President-elect Ebrahim Raisi opposes talks on limiting Tehran’s ballistic missile program or support for regional proxy forces, the new hard-line leader said Monday.

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But he needs a plan to manage the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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Mexico’s president announced Monday he is replacing the head of the government’s anti-corruption agency, saying more reforms are needed.

Nicaragua police announced late Monday they had placed former first lady María Fernanda Flores Lanzas, wife of ex-President Arnoldo Aleman, under house arrest for alleged crimes against the state.

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A Peruvian judge Monday declined a prosecutor’s request to return presidential election candidate Keiko Fujimori to remand prison for allegedly failing to comply with her bail conditions over charges of money laundering and corruption she faces.

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Brazil’s lower house of Congress on Monday approved a bill allowing the privatization of state-controlled energy company Eletrobras, sending the measure to President Jair Bolsonaro for his signature.

Prosecutors in the northern Mexico border state of Sonora said Monday tests have confirmed that a badly decayed corpse is that of an Indigenous rights leader who disappeared almost four weeks ago.

The United States lacks reliable partners in the region. Here’s how to hold them accountable.

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Fear has invaded the Mexican border city of Reynosa after gunmen in vehicles killed 14 people, including taxis drivers, workers and a nursing student, and security forces responded with operations that left four suspects dead.

While many of the thousands of demonstrations that have roiled Colombia over the last two months have been peaceful, security forces have responded to some with force. The government ombudsman reported 548 human rights violations through June 7, and 20 deaths.

Chilean President Sebastian Pinera said Sunday the assembly to draft a new constitution for the copper-producing country, replacing the one inherited from the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, will hold its first session July 4.

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Anti-government protesters took to the streets in more than a score of cities across Brazil on Saturday as the nation’s confirmed death toll from COVID-19 soared past half a million—a tragedy many critics blame on President Jair Bolsonaro’s attempt to minimize the disease.

Supporters of socialist Pedro Castillo and conservative Keiko Fujimori took to the streets by the thousands in Peru on Saturday, as tensions rose over the result of the June 6 presidential election.

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As negotiations between the government and the strike committee stall, what can Colombia expect in the last year of Duque’s presidency?

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The United States, the European Union and Britain imposed sweeping sanctions on Belarusian entities and officials Monday and called on Minsk “to end its repressive practices against its own people.”

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Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Tuesday pardoned all nine Catalan separatist leaders jailed for their role in a failed independence bid in the region in 2017, one of whom reacted with defiance to news of his impending release.

Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party named Jeffrey Donaldson as its new leader Tuesday, the third person in a tumultuous few weeks to lead the British province’s largest party during crucial post-Brexit talks.

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The Greens candidate Monday pulled out of a run-off election in southeastern France set for next Sunday, making it harder for far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s party to beat the center-right and take control of the region.

A suicide bomber in a car attacked a French reconnaissance mission in central Mali on Monday, wounding six of the soldiers and four residents, the French army said.

Stefan Lofven became the first Swedish prime minister to lose a no-confidence vote, throwing the Scandinavian country’s politics into turmoil as it continues to struggle with the emergence of a large, populist, anti-immigration party.

French voters Sunday inflicted a sharp setback on the far-right National Rally party in the first round of nationwide regional elections, dashing Marine Le Pen’s hopes of turning the vote into a springboard for next year’s presidential race.

Armenia’s acting prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, has kept power in a parliamentary election despite being widely blamed for a military defeat last year in the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave.

A 35-day manhunt in Belgium that involved helicopters, armored vehicles, 400 soldiers and police officers, as well as reinforcements from Germany and the Netherlands, culminated Sunday in the discovery of a body believed to be that of a missing soldier with links to the far right.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said his government would pardon the nine jailed leaders of Catalonia’s failed 2017 independence bid Tuesday as a first step towards ending the political conflict over the wealthy region.

A suicide bomber in a car attacked a French reconnaissance mission in central Mali on Monday, wounding six of the soldiers and four residents, the French army said.

A vote count is under way in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, for the parliamentary elections after polls finally closed following a three-hour extension.

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Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed plunged Ethiopia into a war in the Tigray region that spawned atrocities and famine. On Monday, his country goes to the polls.

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Guinea has declared an end to an Ebola outbreak that emerged in February and killed 12 people, according to the World Health Organization.

Three children have died following a school kidnapping of 94 students and eight staff in northwest Nigeria this week, the establishment’s principal said Sunday.

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The prime minister’s party is likely to consolidate power in today’s elections. How he will use this power is less clear.

The United States is in talks with some of the key actors in Libya over the withdrawal of foreign forces ahead of elections planned for December, Washington’s top Libya envoy said Monday.

Kuwait’s parliament approved the 2021-22 state budget Tuesday but failed to quell a bad-tempered standoff between government and opposition that has blocked economic reforms and hampered decision-making at the Gulf state’s sovereign wealth fund.

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Palestinians and Jewish settlers hurled stones, chairs and fireworks at each other overnight in a tense Jerusalem neighborhood where settler groups are trying to evict several Palestinian families, officials said Tuesday.

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Syrian government forces and insurgent groups exchanged shell fire in northwestern Syria on Monday that killed at least 10 people, the vast majority of them in rebel-held areas, state media and opposition activists said.

U.S. President Joe Biden plans to host Israel’s new president, Reuven Rivlin, at the White House on June 28, the White House said Saturday.

Iranian President-elect Ebrahim Raisi opposes talks on limiting Tehran’s ballistic missile program or support for regional proxy forces, the new hard-line leader said Monday.

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Jordan’s version of a trial of the century gets under way Monday when a relative of King Abdullah II and a former chief of the royal court are to be ushered into the defendants’ cage at the state security court to face charges of sedition and incitement.

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Saudi Arabia has agreed to restart oil aid to Pakistan worth at least $1.5 billion annually in July, according to officials in Islamabad, as Riyadh works to counter Iran’s influence in the region.

Israel’s new foreign minister will head to the United Arab Emirates next week for the first known visit by a top Israeli diplomat to the Gulf Arab country, the ministry said Monday.

But he needs a plan to manage the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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Iran’s next president is a conservative obsessed with power—but less of a zealot than he seems.

President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines has threatened to send anyone who refuses a coronavirus vaccine to jail, as the country grapples with one of the worst current outbreaks in Asia.

With U.S. troops leaving, the Taliban advancing, and a steady collapse of security force bases and outposts, the Hazara and other ethnic groups in Afghanistan are raising militias.

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China’s longest-serving ambassador to Washington, Cui Tiankai, said Tuesday he will be leaving his post after eight years, amid strained relations between the world’s two largest economies.

Australia said Tuesday it will fight against plans to downgrade the Great Barrier Reef’s World Heritage status due to climate change, while environmentalists have applauded the U.N. World Heritage Committee’s proposal.

The prospect of an open-ended mission to restore democracy in Myanmar is making the Southeast Asian bloc’s leaders uneasy.

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The U.S. sent 2.5 million doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to Taiwan on Sunday, tripling an earlier pledge in a donation with both public health and geopolitical meaning.

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Saudi Arabia has agreed to restart oil aid to Pakistan worth at least $1.5 billion annually in July, according to officials in Islamabad, as Riyadh works to counter Iran’s influence in the region.

The Taliban entered two provincial capitals in northern Afghanistan on Sunday, local officials said, the culmination of an insurgent offensive that has overrun dozens of rural districts and forced the surrender and capture of hundreds of government forces and their military equipment in recent weeks.

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has reinforced the ruling Workers’ Party discipline and appointed new members of its powerful politburo, state media KCNA reported Saturday.

In the 26 years since its founding, Hong Kong’s Apple Daily newspaper has been unrestrained in its criticism of the Chinese Communist Party and unwavering in its support for the pro-democracy movement. It has survived multiple raids, boycott campaigns and the arrest of its founder Jimmy Lai under the draconian new national security law. But now with its assets frozen by the Hong Kong government, the Chinese-language Apple Daily could cease operations as soon as Friday, according to an internal memo seen by The Washington Post.

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Olympic organizers will allow spectators at this summer’s Tokyo Games but cap attendance at 10,000 people or 50 percent of a venue’s capacity, whichever is smaller, they announced Monday.

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The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution Friday condemning Myanmar’s military leaders and calling for a halt in arms sales to the country.

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Beijing has challenged the geopolitical order that enabled the rise of east Asia.