After months of pushing for a permanent U.S. military presence in Poland as a bulwark against Russia, the Polish president offered President Trump a new incentive tailored to his real estate sensibilities: naming rights.

When President Trump announced in May that he was going to withdraw the United States from the nuclear agreement that the Obama administration and five other countries negotiated with Iran in 2015 and reimpose sanctions on the country, the decision was fraught with potential disaster. But the policy has been effective without either of those nasty consequences, at least so far.

More from WPR: U.S. Sanctions Take Effect, Putting Iran—and Trump’s Approach—to the Test

The email is written in a who, what, when, where, why format. The “why” says: "[Immigrant recruits] are currently suing the federal government claiming they were wrongfully discharged from the Army.”

The State Department released a report Wednesday identifying Iran as the leading state sponsor of terrorism with a “near-global reach” and accusing it of sending suspected operatives to the United States.

The United States is seeking to negotiate a treaty with Iran to include Tehran’s ballistic missile program and its regional behavior, the U.S. special envoy for Iran said on Wednesday ahead of U.N. meetings in New York next week.

Americans have forgotten that their long history of intervention in the Middle East started in Damascus. Now it might end there.

Beijing will explore new ways to hurt Washington, including a refusal to buy its debt.

More from WPR: What Is the Endgame for the Trump Trade Wars?

President Trump said Monday he will impose new tariffs on about $200 billion in Chinese goods and threatened to add hundreds of billions more as part of his campaign to pressure Beijing to change its commercial practices, escalating trade tensions between the world’s two largest economies.

More from WPR: What Is the Endgame for the Trump Trade Wars?

The United States will admit no more than 30,000 refugees in the coming fiscal year, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday, the lowest number in decades and a steep cut from the 45,000 allowed in this year.

The Trump administration is disowning a plan presented by U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley for President Trump to hold a meeting at the United Nations next week focused on Iran, according to diplomats familiar with the planning.

More from WPR: U.S. Sanctions Take Effect, Putting Iran—and Trump’s Approach—to the Test

Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland will hold fresh talks on renewing NAFTA with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer in Washington on Wednesday, a spokesman for Freeland said on Tuesday.

More from WPR: U.S. Trade Policy Has Suffered Through the Dog Days of Summer

Joint military exercises have kept the relationship strong despite Trump, but that could soon change.

For months, pundits have debated whether maintaining such dominance requires a Space Force. What these discussions often miss, however, is that space security depends at least as much on international cooperation as it does on national dominance.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Tuesday he may have to suspend a planned trip to the United Nations next week because of concerns his opponents would try to kill him if he travels abroad.

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

The governor of the western Mexico state of Jalisco has fired the director of the state morgue after a refrigerated truck carrying 157 unidentified bodies drew complaints from neighbors over the smell.

Puerto Rico’s government is suing insurance companies that officials say have not responded quickly enough to claims filed after Hurricane Maria hit nearly a year ago.

More from WPR: Another Hurricane Season Opens, but Caribbean Reconstruction Has Only Begun

Brazil’s leftist presidential candidate Fernando Haddad on Tuesday ruled out pardoning the jailed former head of state and his own party’s iconic leader Lula da Silva should he triumph in October’s elections.

More from WPR: Fed Up With Corrupt Politicians, Can Brazilians Resist the Lure of Demagogues?

A one-term city councilor in Toronto turned unlikely premier, Doug Ford is unreasonably fixated on local politics. His old stamping ground’s local politics, that is.

Saying that journalism is amid a deep metamorphosis worldwide is stating the obvious. But in Venezuela, there’s a deeper transition taking place under the weight of political repression. The ways that media and citizens are searching for and sharing information are changing at an accelerated process in Venezuela, triggered by direct censorship or self-censorship.

The government on Monday defied a ruling by Guatemala’s top court to allow the return of the man who heads a U.N.-backed anti-corruption commission, with officials arguing they have the right to force his replacement.

More from WPR: Why Guatemala’s Anti-Corruption Commission Faces a New Wave of Efforts to Derail It

A federal judge indicted former President Cristina Fernandez on Monday and asked for her arrest for allegedly heading a corruption scheme that collected bribes from business leaders in exchange for public work contracts.

The peace accords signed in 2016 by then-President Juan Manuel Santos and the rebels were meant to bring an end to five decades of fighting that left at least 220,000 dead and nearly 6 million people displaced from their homes. Behind the agreement, though, loomed a fear: That many of the thousands of fighters granted amnesty under the pact might sour on civilian life and pick up arms again.

More from WPR: Colombia’s New Conservative President Sets His Sights on the FARC Peace Deal

Puerto Rico will no longer put up with so many years of being a colony of the United States, the island’s non-voting member of the U.S. House of Representatives told EFE on Monday.

The anti-government protests continued on Sunday in Nicaragua despite the ongoing threats and attacks against the protesters, according to witnesses in Managua.

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

A group of Colombian coffee growers demonstrated on Monday before the European Union Embassy in Bogota to express their disagreement with the low prices for the beans on the international market.

Colombia’s President Ivan Duque assigned top officials to reactivate the government’s participation in a tripartite commission that monitors the country’s peace process with demobilized FARC guerrillas.

There are other, better steps to take. The U.S. should step up its $70 million in refugee aid. Europe and Latin America need to join Washington’s lead in identifying officials who have salted abroad billions of dollars of stolen funds, and sanction them. Concerned nations should pressure Venezuelan allies including China, a key business partner, and Cuba, which provides military intelligence.

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

Germany’s foreign minister says that Berlin is skeptical about the idea of a border correction in the talks between Kosovo and Serbia. Heiko Maas, visiting nearby Albania on Wednesday, said that “there exists the fear of a domino effect.”

More from WPR: The Feud That Captures the Fight for Serbia’s Future

British police are investigating a possible hate crime after a car hit pedestrians near a Muslim community center, injuring three people.

When Cecile Kyenge was appointed as Italy’s first black government minister in 2013, she was likened to an “orangutan” by a politician from the country’s hard right League Party. Five years later the League is Italy’s most popular party and has brought a defamation case against her for accusing it of racism.

Three senior members of Romania’s ruling Social Democratic Party on Wednesday urged the party’s powerful chairman to resign, saying he’s a liability due to a conviction for abuse of power.

More from WPR: Invoking Trump-Like Rhetoric, Romania’s Leaders Chip Away at Independent Institutions

French President Emmanuel Macron’s closest security officer, fired after video showed him beating May Day protesters, defended himself before a Senate inquiry on Wednesday, saying he was neither a police officer nor a genuine bodyguard.

Macedonia’s constitutional court has rejected two bids to declare illegal and unconstitutional the upcoming referendum on renaming the country “North Macedonia.”

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

A regional council in western Ukraine has passed a motion to ban all Russian-language books, films and songs in the region.

Hungary’s foreign ministry has summoned the Spanish ambassador over comments made by the Spanish foreign minister that labeled Hungary as xenophobic.

More from WPR: Another Orban Victory Will Entrench Authoritarian Drift, in Hungary and Beyond

Ill-advised land swaps and population transfers won’t bring peace. They’re more likely to revive the bloodshed that plagued the Balkans during the 1990s.

In the chaotic skies over Syria, one ally shot down a Russian plane, and Moscow blamed another.

The head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency lost his job Tuesday after his remarks downplaying anti-migrant violence became a battleground between Chancellor Angela Merkel and her conservative critics.

More from WPR: Has Its Showdown With Merkel Over Migration Already Backfired for Germany’s CSU?

France’s interior minister, one of President Emmanuel Macron’s closest allies, has announced plans to quit the government and run for election as mayor of Lyon in 2020, adding to doubts and instability around the young leader’s administration.

As President Andrzej Duda sets off for his first official visit to the White House on Tuesday, the transformation of the courts is nearly complete after a purge of the Supreme Court through the forced retirements of one-third of the justices.

More from WPR: The Struggle for Poland’s Future Is Playing Out on the Battlefield of History

German doctors treating a Pussy Riot activist who lost his sight, speech and mobility after spending time in a court in Moscow said on Tuesday that it was “highly plausible” that he had been poisoned, as their tests had found no evidence that he was suffering from a long-term illness.

Dozens of European countries are backing a plan to increase the use of hydrogen as an alternative to fossil fuels to cut the continent’s carbon emissions.

Some 2,000 asylum-seekers will be moved out of a severely overcrowded migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos this month, a Greek official said Tuesday as charities slammed conditions at the camp, which has raw sewage running out of its main entrance.

In a country where even the anti-corruption prosecutors abuse their power, it’s hard to say who the good guys are.

Instead of panicking over the U.S. president, Berlin needs to fix the disastrous state of its military and return to a reasonable foreign policy.

Bobi Wine, the Ugandan pop star turned opposition politician whose beating by soldiers last month prompted mass protests, has said he will return home on Thursday to prove that the “power of the people is greater than the people in power.”

More from WPR: Museveni Fears a Rival Unlike Any Other He Has Faced in Uganda

With “staggering brutality,” South Sudan government soldiers and allied militia targeted civilians by raping them, burning them alive, running them over with armored vehicles and hanging them in trees even as the government pursued a new peace deal to end a civil war, a new Amnesty International report says.

More from WPR: A Resurrected Peace Plan Is the Best Hope for Ending South Sudan’s Brutal War

Islamist militants have killed hundreds of soldiers in attacks in northeastern Nigeria in recent weeks, security and military sources say, forcing a turnaround in the course of an insurgency which the government has frequently claimed to have vanquished.

Eritrea has arrested a former minister who wrote books critical of the country’s leader, a rights group and a U.N. official said. British-based rights body Human Rights Concern - Eritrea said Berhane Abrehe, minister from 2000 to 2012, was arrested on Monday morning in the capital Asmara.

Zimbabwe’s president has sworn in members of a commission of inquiry into the killing of six people following military intervention after the disputed election.

More from WPR: Zimbabwe’s Election Was Never Going to Be Free and Fair

Liberia’s government says it is investigating the disappearance of newly printed bills worth about $100 million that were imported into the West African nation.

Zimbabwe is appealing to individual citizens and local companies for $35 million to help fight a cholera outbreak that has killed 31 and infected more than 5,000, the finance minister said.

Kenya’s president has proposed hiking taxes on mobile money transfer services and other money transfer services, documents sent to parliament this month showed, amid a tussle in government over how to boost revenues without hurting the poor.

The first documented U.S. direct military engagement in Tunisia since World War II has largely passed unnoticed, but it is a sign of things to come.

Germany and Algeria want to find ways to speed up the repatriation of Algerians living illegally in Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday during a visit to Algeria.

More from WPR: Has Its Showdown With Merkel Over Migration Already Backfired for Germany’s CSU?

A lawyer defending an alleged commander in Uganda’s shadowy Lord's Resistance Army accused of crimes including murder, sexual slavery and using child soldiers cast him Tuesday him as a victim of the rebel group and its brutal leader, Joseph Kony.

Zimbabwean opposition lawmakers on Tuesday walked out on President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s state of the nation address to parliament, signalling their lingering bitterness after losing a disputed July 30 presidential and parliamentary vote.

More from WPR: Zimbabwe’s Election Was Never Going to Be Free and Fair

Libyan authorities say fighting between rival militias in the capital of Tripoli has flared up again, breaking a cease-fire that began earlier this month. Generators that were damaged in the clashes have caused mass power outages across the country.

Burundi, beset by accusations of crimes against humanity, threatened on Monday to withdraw from the U.N. Human Rights Council and sue its critics.

More from WPR: ‘They Want Complete Control’: How Burundi Hunts Dissidents at Home and Abroad

South Africa’s highest court on Tuesday allowed the private use of marijuana, upholding a lower court’s ruling that found the criminalization of cannabis was unconstitutional.

Authorities in Cameroon’s Northwest region say they will not allow people without legitimate reasons to leave the area.

Boko Haram extremists have killed a Red Cross worker who was abducted earlier this year during an attack in the Kala Balge government area in northern Nigeria’s Borno State, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Monday.

More from WPR: The Many Questions Around Nigeria’s Mooted Offer of Amnesty to Boko Haram

After 32 years in power, President Yoweri Museveni’s government is for the first time shaking in its boots. Not because of me, not because of any opposition member, but because of the millions of young Ugandans who know they deserve better, and are now demanding better.

More from WPR: Museveni Fears a Rival Unlike Any Other He Has Faced in Uganda

The trial of a former LRA commander is meant to ensure justice. But many in northern Uganda are skeptical.

Syrians disagreed Tuesday about what a new Russia-Turkey deal means, casting into doubt whether it will ultimately prevent a potentially devastating war for control of the Syrian province of Idlib.

More from WPR: The Shape of Syria to Come

A construction workers union says 24 of its members have been detained in the aftermath of protests denouncing poor working conditions at Istanbul’s new airport.

Palestinians protested Wednesday at a new location along the perimeter fence between Israel and Gaza as Hamas intensified demonstrations at the border after Egyptian-led cease-fire talks stalled.

Thousands of people who were recently displaced by violence in northwest Syria have returned home following a Russia-Turkey deal that averted a government offensive on the last major rebel stronghold, Syrian opposition activists said Wednesday.

More from WPR: The Shape of Syria to Come

Jordan has embarked on an overseas lobbying campaign to replace funding that the Trump administration pulled last month for an agency that supports hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees in the kingdom.

More pressure on Tehran won’t work. Here’s what Trump should really do.

Russia as a Middle East bullyboy has been a nuisance for the United States. Russia as the hegemonic regional power that brokers peace deals may be a more serious problem.

Syrian anti-aircraft missiles shot down a Russian military aircraft carrying 15 service members off the Syrian coast Monday night, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

Palestinian residents say a 24-year-old Palestinian man has died after being arrested at his home by Israeli forces.

Gaza’s Health Ministry said early Tuesday that paramedics recovered two bodies after an overnight Israeli airstrike near the perimeter fence with Israel.

Some 120,000 primary, middle and high school students in Cyprus have stayed home as school teachers go ahead with a two-day strike to protest what they say was the government’s move to impose money-saving measures without consulting with them.

Turkey vowed to scale up its military presence in Idlib on Tuesday as it faced the difficult task of enforcing a deal to stave off an assault on Syria’s last opposition bastion.

More from WPR: The Shape of Syria to Come

Donors to Jordan’s economy must ensure that the country’s economy does not simply survive but becomes self-sustaining.

More from WPR: Anti-Austerity Protests Rattle Jordan, Reverberating Across the Middle East

Religious extremists will try to inherit the energy of the all-but-defeated rebellion, just as they did in Iraq after the surge.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un offered Wednesday to permanently dismantle the country’s main nuclear site, but only if the United States makes concessions first.

A Pakistani court suspended the prison sentences of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter and son-in-law on Wednesday and set them free on bail pending their appeal hearings.

Malaysia’s anti-graft agency said former Prime Minister Najib Razak was arrested on Wednesday and will face further charges of abuse of power over the multimillion-dollar looting of a state investment fund.

Pakistan’s new prime minister, former cricket player Imran Khan, is in Saudi Arabia as part of his first official overseas trip.

More from WPR: From the U.S. to Iran, Pakistan’s Khan Faces Five Foreign Policy Tests

China has reached out to the U.S. over reports that the Department of Justice has ordered two top Chinese state-run news outlets to register as foreign agents, a spokesman said Wednesday, adding that Beijing opposed “politicizing” the role of the media.

New Zealand plans to increase the number of refugees it takes each year from 1,000 to 1,500. Liberal Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on Wednesday that the new quota will take effect from 2020.

Afghanistan’s deputy foreign minister will visit Moscow on Thursday to discuss the dates of a new round of Moscow peace talks on Afghanistan, Interfax news agency reported on Wednesday citing Afghanistan’s embassy.

Police in Indian-controlled Kashmir fired tear gas and used batons on Wednesday to break up religious processions marking the Muslim month of Muharram.

More from WPR: ‘He Didn’t Fear Anything’: The Lure of Militancy in India’s Kashmir Valley

Office #39 is how Pyongyang breaks sanctions and gets cash through global crime.

Heavy lending to Pakistan as part of the Belt and Road Initiative could backfire.

More from WPR: How Debt Traps From China’s Belt and Road Initiative Could Upend the IMF

South Korean President Moon Jae-in began his third summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday with possibly his hardest mission to date—brokering some kind of compromise to keep North Korea’s talks with Washington from imploding and pushing ahead with his own plans to expand economic cooperation and bring a stable peace to the Korean Peninsula.

Beijing will immediately retaliate against President Trump’s new tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese imports, setting the stage for a protracted dispute that could raise prices of household goods in both countries.

More from WPR: The Ongoing Drama, or Farce, of Trump’s China Trade Policy

At least nine members of a local Afghan police force were killed when another policeman opened fire at them at a checkpoint in northern Balkh province, a provincial official said Tuesday, the latest so-called “insider attack” in Afghanistan.

Pakistan will raise import duties on 5,000 different items and slash spending on infrastructure projects in an attempt to balance its budget, the government of Imran Khan has announced.

More from WPR: How Debt Traps From China’s Belt and Road Initiative Could Upend the IMF

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev on Tuesday appointed his aide Alikhan Smailov as finance minister, continuing a broader government reshuffle.

Pakistan’s army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa began a three-day visit to China on Sunday, Pakistan’s military said, days after a Pakistani minister stirred unease about Chinese Silk Road projects in the South Asian nation.

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi is set to visit the Dominican Republic, Guyana and Suriname between Sept. 20-23, the Chinese government said on Monday.

Hong Kong’s government agreed, in a step toward greater recognition of gay rights, to grant dependency visas to foreigners in same-sex unions, a move long sought by multinational companies operating in the Chinese financial center.

Washington and Seoul cannot let Beijing unilaterally pursue its interests and influence without pushback.

Today’s feminists in China know from long experience to be wary of men’s claims that they support equal rights, whether they are government officials or liberal intellectuals and activists.