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August 10th, 2020

US Plans To Build Up Syrian Proxy Forces to Guard Oilfield French Expert: Dangerous Chemicals Remain in Beirut Port
Pakistan Ambassador Not Ruling Out Another War With India Over Disputed Kashmir Region Indian Army Starts Enquiry After Families Allege Militants Killed in Kashmir Were Laborers
Four Taliban Rebels Killed by Own IED Blast in Ghazni UN Envoy Says Guinea-Bissau in Fragile State After Elections
Afghanistan to Release 400 'Hard-Core' Taliban Prisoners in Bid for Peace Iran Nuclear Deal at Risk as UN Council Prepares to Vote on Arms Embargo
Hong Kong Activist Agnes Chow Arrested, Says Fellow Activist Belarusian Protester Reported Dead, Says He Survived Police Beating
At Least Six Killed as Somalia Security Forces Put Out Prison Uprising Venezuela Opposition Party Says Govt Supporters Take Over Its HQ
Tunisia PM Designate to Form Technocratic Government Without Parties At Least 10 Dead in Ethiopia Protests Over Autonomy
US State Department Says Inspector General Found US Arms Sales to Saudi Did Not Break Law: Official TikTok Cannot Continue in US as It Is, Treasury Secretary Warns
Lebanon's Leaders Warned in July About Explosives at Port Bolivia Protests Rattle Political Truce as Military Mobilized
US Space Force Publishes First Ever Doctrine Called 'Spacepower' 5th Time's the Charm? Pentagon Has Yet Another Civilian Leader of Special Operations in 3 Years
Soldiers Demolish a Palestinian Home Near Bethlehem Eight Civilians Killed, Two Wounded in Bomb Attacks in Afghanistan
Ghani Signs Decree to Release 400 Taliban Prisoners ACLU Calls for Dissolving of Department of Homeland Security
High Court Forbids Razing Home of Palestinian Charged With Killing IDF Soldier IDF Scales Back Reinforcements on Lebanese Border, but Stays on Alert
Israeli Forces Beat Elderly Palestinian Man Amid Overnight West Bank Raids Sudan Imposes Curfew After Tribal Clashes Kill 4
Palestinian-Israeli Mother and Son Injured in Haifa Shootout Lebanese Soldiers Attack Journalists Covering Blast Outrage
Here's the Current US Plan to Build Up Syrian Proxies, Including an Oilfield Guard Force Beijing Will Honor US Phase One Deal by Opening Financial Sector Wider, Its Central Bank Chief Says
Hong Kong Arrest of Media Tycoon Jimmy Lai Sparks International Condemnation Ban 'Killer Robots' With International Treaty, Says Human Rights Watch
Palestinian Family in Cave Home Faces Israeli Eviction Russian Jet Intercepts US Reconnaissance Planes Over Black Sea
Bolivia's Military, Police Chiefs Call for Easing of Tensions Trump Vows 'Deal With Iran' Within Four Weeks of Reelection
New Clashes in Belarus as West Condemns Crackdown After Election Philippine Navy Wants to Protest Chinese Ships in Disputed Sea
Explosion Targets Convoy Carrying US Military Equipment Near Iraq-Kuwait Crossing: Sources Nigerian Sharia Court Sentences Singer to Death for Blasphemy
Hong Kong Media Tycoon Jimmy Lai Arrested, Newsroom Raided Under China's New Security Law Turkey Flexes Military Muscle in Maritime Feud With Greece
Pompeo Says After Lai Arrest, Unlikely That China Will Rethink Hong Kong Stance Iran Wants US to Lift Sanctions Against Lebanon
Greek National Security Council Meets Amid Turkey Tension Germany Expresses 'Displeasure' at US Threat Over Russia Pipeline
Algeria Jails Journalist for Three Years Over Protest Coverage Hong Kong: China Imposes Tit-For-Tat Sanctions on US Legislators
Chicago Sees Violence, Looting After Cop-Involved Shooting Belarus Election Challenger Asks Lukashenko to Quit Amid Protests
Investigation: Excessive Force Used Against Beirut Protesters Bomb Kills Six in Pakistan's Balochistan
19 Killed in Massacre in Eastern DR Congo's Ituri Hamas Fires Rockets Into Sea in 'Message' to Israel
Iran Shuts Down Newspaper Over Virus Cover-Up Allegations Hong Kong Media Tycoon Jimmy Lai Arrested Under Controversial National Security Law
US Angers China With High-Profile Taiwan Visit Lebanon Government Resigns Amid Outrage Over Beirut Blast
Saudi Arabia Turns Off America's Oil Taps Again

August 9th, 2020

Iraq Daily Roundup: Turkish Soldier Among Eight People Killed Germany Pullout: Esper Says Troops Are Moving Closer to Russia
Gulf Alliance Pressures UN to Extend Iran Arms Embargo Taiwan Sends 200 Marines to Island in South China Sea
US Begins Highest Level Taiwan Visit in Decades Esper Says There Will Be Less Than 5,000 US Troops in Afghanistan by November

August 6th, 2020

Trump Administration's Wild Plan to Wall Off China From the US Internet
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