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Voters Protest Disqualification of Leading Venezuelan Candidate
From: VOA About 500 supporters of a Venezuelan gubernatorial opposition candidate who was retroactively disqualified as the vote…
Belgian Police Use Water, Tear Gas on COVID Protesters
From: VOA Belgian police used water cannon and tear gas Sunday to disperse some rowdy protesters in Brussels…
US Agrees to Force Migrants to Stay in Mexico While Asylum Claims Considered
From: VOA The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Thursday it will comply with a court order and…
U.S. To Lead Global Initiative to Limit Surveillance by Authoritarian Regimes
From: Axios The Biden administration on Thursday announced a global initiative aimed to prevent authoritarian governments from using…
U.S. Faces Urgent Anti-Hacker Crisis
From: Axios The Biden administration is accelerating efforts to fill nearly 600,000 vacant cybersecurity positions in the public…
Oklahoma Sues to Exempt National Guard From Pentagon Vaccine Mandate
From: The Hill The state of Oklahoma filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday seeking to stop the Biden…
Mossad Head Vows No Iran Nukes ‘Ever,’ as Credibility of Military Option Scrutinized
From: Times of Israel The head of the Mossad spy agency said Thursday that a bad nuclear deal…
Afghanistan: Hamid Karzai Says the Taliban Are His Brothers
From: BBC The former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, has described the Taliban as his "brothers" in an…
U.S. And E.U. Signal “Converging” Views on China
From: Axios The U.S. and the European Union are adopting "increasingly convergent" views on the threat posed by…
Beijing Warns China-linked US Businesses: You Cannot ‘Make a Fortune in Silence’
From: Guardian Beijing has urged US business groups with interests in China to “speak out” and lobby the US government…