U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday reaffirmed the need to keep sanctions on North Korea to achieve its denuclearization as they showcased their bilateral alliance, while Pence also urged Japan to do more to reduce the U.S. trade deficit.

Reflecting reluctance by the Trump administration to limit its options for using offensive and defensive cyberweapons, the United States declined on Monday to sign a vaguely worded international call to protect civilians against cyberattacks and discourage digital meddling in elections.

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U.S. national security adviser John Bolton said Tuesday that an audio recording of journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s death inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul did not appear to provide any link between the killers and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

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Rohrabacher is the living, breathing embodiment of the moral corruption that has seeped into a part of the Republican Party foreign policy establishment—the part that long ago stopped caring about U.S. leadership of the democratic world.

What China can give—and what the United States should accept—concerns investment, not trade.

The U.S. is stopping aerial refueling of warplanes bombing Yemen, dialing back support for a Saudi-led military coalition as criticism of the kingdom grows in Washington over the conflict’s civilian impact.

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence arrived in Tokyo on Monday to discuss North Korea and other issues with Japanese officials before heading to two regional summits.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday he had discussed U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs with President Donald Trump over the weekend and that he hoped to reach a resolution on the matter by the G-20 summit in Argentina.

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A United States Navy warplane crashed into the sea northeast of the Philippines on Monday, the second crash in less than a month involving aircraft from the carrier the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan.

Iraq’s president on Sunday urged the United States to consider Baghdad’s political and economic position as the countries negotiate on relief for Iraq from Washington’s reimposed sanctions against Iran.

Only well calibrated multilateral political, economic and diplomatic pressure brought to bear on Iran with many and diverse partners will produce the results we seek.

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

New sanctions on exports of the natural resource will punish Ankara more than Caracas.

Brazil’s top electoral authority said it has found irregularities in the campaign accounts of President-elect Jair Bolsonaro and gave him three days to explain.

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Mexico’s president-elect said Monday he will hold another public referendum later this month on his proposal for a railway to connect the main tourist attractions across the Yucatan peninsula.

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Thousands of people marched in Mexico City on Sunday to protest President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's plans to cancel a new $13 billion airport for the capital.

More from WPR: AMLO’s Move to Scrap an Airport Raises Fears of a Return to Mexico’s Statist Past

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday he had discussed U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs with President Donald Trump over the weekend and that he hoped to reach a resolution on the matter by the G-20 summit in Argentina.

More from WPR: Trump’s NAFTA Rebrand Looks More Like the TPP, Minus the Partnership

Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel met on Sunday with his Laotian counterpart, Bounnhang Vorachith, in Vientiane to sign cooperation agreements in the fields of economy and sports.

Dominican authorities deported an estimated 70,000 to 80,000 people of Haitian descent over three years. Those left behind live in a state of institutionalized terror.

Turkey reacted with fury on Monday after French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said President Tayyip Erdogan was playing a political game over sharing intelligence about the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

A court on Tuesday rejected prosecutors’ request that an Austrian army colonel suspected of spying for Russia for 26 years be remanded in custody pending trial.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was stopped at the border Tuesday and barred from leaving Russia as he was about to travel to a court hearing at the European Court for Human Rights in France.

Italy’s premier hosted a meeting Tuesday of Libya’s rival leaders on the sidelines of a conference aiming to help its former colony crack down on Islamic militants and human trafficking.

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Younger voters are fed up with the country’s history of pessimism and oppressive consensus.

In the shadow of a grand war memorial here, French President Emmanuel Macron marked the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I by delivering a forceful rebuke against rising nationalism, calling it a “betrayal of patriotism” and warning against “old demons coming back to wreak chaos and death.”

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It was meant to foster unity and celebrate the sacrifices of past generations in the creation of the modern Polish nation. But after days of wrangling and controversy, the country’s Independence Day celebration on Sunday ended up highlighting Poland’s deep divisions.

More from WPR: In Poland’s Local Elections, Voters Give Some Hope to Liberals Across Europe

Separatist leaders in eastern Ukraine have secured their hold on power in weekend local elections that have been denounced by Ukrainian authorities and the West as illegitimate.

Representatives of Libya’s quarrelling factions and of countries keen on stabilizing the North African nation were attending a conference in Sicily Monday aimed at finding a political settlement to bolster the fight against Islamic militants and stop illegal migrants from crossing the Mediterranean to Europe’s southern shores.

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Britain’s top diplomat met Monday with King Salman in Saudi Arabia, where he was expected to press the kingdom to fully cooperate with a Turkish investigation into last month’s killing of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi at the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul.

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Finland’s GPS signal was intentionally disrupted during NATO war games in the Nordic countries over the past few weeks and the culprit could be Russia, Prime Minster Juha Sipila said on Sunday.

Germany’s interior minister on Monday denied reports that he was planning on stepping down as the nation’s top security official but said he will relinquish his post as leader of the sister party to that of Chancellor Angela Merkel.

On the 11th day of the 11th month and at the 11th hour—the moment at which the armistice ending World War I was declared a century ago—the leaders of the nations that once murdered one another during that brutal conflict gathered in Paris. That was expected. The surprise was the degree to which a formal occasion so brilliantly exposed the relationships between former allies and former opponents today.

Democratic Republic of Congo’s main opposition party on Monday rejected a deal agreed by its leader just a day earlier to select a single opposition candidate for upcoming presidential elections.

Italy’s premier hosted a meeting Tuesday of Libya’s rival leaders on the sidelines of a conference aiming to help its former colony crack down on Islamic militants and human trafficking.

More from WPR: As Hurdles Mount, Diplomats Abandon Libya Election Timetable

Ethiopia arrested the former head of the military-run industrial conglomerate METEC on Tuesday, state media reported, a day after authorities announced investigations targeting senior members of the powerful security forces.

The United Nations Security Council is set to vote on Wednesday to lift a nearly decade-old arms embargo and targeted sanctions on Eritrea, diplomats said, after the country’s rapprochement with Ethiopia and thawing of relations with Djibouti.

Think economics, healthcare, and good governance.

Representatives of Libya’s quarrelling factions and of countries keen on stabilizing the North African nation were attending a conference in Sicily Monday aimed at finding a political settlement to bolster the fight against Islamic militants and stop illegal migrants from crossing the Mediterranean to Europe’s southern shores.

More from WPR: As Hurdles Mount, Diplomats Abandon Libya Election Timetable

Scores of Congolese opposition supporters demonstrated in the capital Kinshasa on Monday against the choice of a joint candidate in December’s presidential election instead of the country’s well-known opposition leader.

Nigeria has named its fifth commander in less than 2 years to lead the fight against the Boko Haram insurgency, the army said on Saturday, a move military sources say was related to continued attacks by Islamists.

More from WPR: ‘Year of the Debacle’: How Nigeria Lost Its Way in the War Against Boko Haram

Ethiopia has arrested 36 officials from its intelligence services over alleged corruption and human rights abuses following an investigation of several months, the attorney general said on Monday.

The health of Gabon’s President Ali Ben Bongo has greatly improved and he is recovering his physical abilities, his office said on Sunday, after sources said last month he suffered a stroke.

More from WPR: A Presidential Health Scare in Gabon Sparks Talk of Life After Bongo

Many cash machines in the Sudanese capital have run out of banknotes as the government scrambles to prevent economic collapse with a sharp devaluation and emergency austerity measures.

The U.N.’s plan offers the best hope of ending Libya’s chaos, but Italy and France are making things worse.

Israel carried out more air strikes on the Gaza Strip on Tuesday as Palestinians kept up rocket fire on Israeli territory in the worst surge of violence since a 2014 war.

Shortly after the journalist Jamal Khashoggi was assassinated last month, a member of the kill team instructed a superior over the phone to “tell your boss,” believed to be Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, that the operatives had carried out their mission, according to three people familiar with a recording of Mr. Khashoggi’s killing collected by Turkish intelligence.

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Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed faced lawmakers in a marathon debate Monday ahead of a vote of confidence needed to approve the government he reshuffled a week ago in a bid to end a months-long paralyzing political crisis.

In the Houthi narrative, all journalists are spies for the West and enemies of Yemen.

The U.S. is stopping aerial refueling of warplanes bombing Yemen, dialing back support for a Saudi-led military coalition as criticism of the kingdom grows in Washington over the conflict’s civilian impact.

A senior Israeli military officer and seven militants, including a Hamas commander, were killed late Sunday after a covert operation by Israel inside the Gaza Strip appeared to have been exposed, sparking an exchange of fire, airstrikes and later a barrage of rocket fire.

An audio recording tracking the dying moments of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul has been shared with Saudi Arabia, Britain, France and Germany in addition to the United States, the leader of Turkey said Saturday.

More from WPR: In the Wake of the Khashoggi Affair, a Tenuous Mending of Frayed U.S.-Turkey Ties

Anxieties over the availability of medicine are mounting in Iran with the reimposition this month of sanctions by the United States after President Trump withdrew from the nuclear deal.

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

Britain’s top diplomat met Monday with King Salman in Saudi Arabia, where he was expected to press the kingdom to fully cooperate with a Turkish investigation into last month’s killing of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi at the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul.

More from WPR: Why the Global Magnitsky Act Is the Best Way to Sanction Saudi Arabia

Iraq’s president on Sunday urged the United States to consider Baghdad’s political and economic position as the countries negotiate on relief for Iraq from Washington’s reimposed sanctions against Iran.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has approved amendments to a controversial law that allowed authorities to seize property left behind by civilians who fled the civil war.

More from WPR: The Shape of Syria to Come

A tougher stance from the United Nations would put pressure on Assad and Putin while improving the lives of ordinary Syrians.

As Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman tries to escape consequences for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, it has been revealing to see who has stepped forward to help him out. There have been fellow Arab dictators, such as Egypt’s Abdel Fatah al-Sissi. There have been cynical opportunists, like Russia’s Vladi­mir Putin. Then there’s Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of a nation whose right to exist has yet to be recognized by Saudi Arabia.

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday reaffirmed the need to keep sanctions on North Korea to achieve its denuclearization as they showcased their bilateral alliance, while Pence also urged Japan to do more to reduce the U.S. trade deficit.

When world leaders gather in this city-state and Papua New Guinea for regional summits this week, there will be a conspicuous absence: President Trump. It is summit season in Asia, with Association of Southeast Asian Nations meetings due to start Tuesday in Singapore.

India’s top court has agreed to re-examine a ruling that lifted a ban on women of menstruating age from entering a Hindu temple after near-constant protests backed by both India’s ruling party and the main opposition party.

China has halted a directive that partially legalized the domestic trade in farmed rhinoceros and tiger parts, two weeks after the move drew a torrent of criticism from conservation groups.

What China can give—and what the United States should accept—concerns investment, not trade.

Think economics, healthcare, and good governance.

New Delhi is funding an ambitious dam near Kabul that could reduce water flow to its rival downstream. The project might spark the world’s next conflict.

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence arrived in Tokyo on Monday to discuss North Korea and other issues with Japanese officials before heading to two regional summits.

Dozens of elite commandos were among the casualties suffered by Afghan security forces as the Taliban claimed to have taken a district in Ghazni province, stepping up battlefield pressure while seeking a political settlement with the United States.

More from WPR: A Taliban Assassination and the Myth of the U.S. Presence in Afghanistan

North Korea is moving ahead with its ballistic missile program at 16 hidden bases that have been identified in new commercial satellite images, a network long known to American intelligence agencies but left undiscussed as President Trump claims to have neutralized the North’s nuclear threat.

Sri Lanka plunged deeper into political crisis after the president issued a decree late Friday to dissolve Parliament and hold fresh elections, a move that experts called unconstitutional and opponents vowed to challenge in court.

More from WPR: Sirisena’s Sudden Appointment of Rajapaksa Throws Sri Lanka Back Into Turmoil

At least 12 Chinese labor activists have gone missing in recent days, in what sources close to them believe was a coordinated effort by authorities to silence the vocal group, most of them university students or recent graduates.

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

Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel met on Sunday with his Laotian counterpart, Bounnhang Vorachith, in Vientiane to sign cooperation agreements in the fields of economy and sports.

Authorities in Bangladesh agreed Monday to delay national elections by a week because of opposition demands for more time to prepare.

More from WPR: Bangladesh’s ‘Zero-Sum’ Political Contest Escalates Into a Civil Society Crackdown

Singapore’s leader vowed Monday to strengthen ties with Malaysia, which is now led by a historic rival following a game-changing election.

More from WPR: Mahathir Positions Malaysia as a Check on China’s Ambitions in Southeast Asia

School teachers walked off the job in New Zealand’s largest city, Auckland, on Monday, kicking off a week of national strike action as a three-month battle over wages and work conditions tests the Labour-led government.

More from WPR: Public Worker Strikes in New Zealand Are Jacinda Ardern’s First Major Headache

A trend continues: Beijing loves to scoop up key military technology to reverse engineer it.