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China Fires Missiles Near Taiwan After Pelosi’s Visit

A day after Nancy Pelosi’s trip, China has begun military drills near Taiwan. They appear to be designed as a trial run for sealing off the island.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/03/world/asia/taiwan-china-military-exercises.html

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Pelosi’s Taiwan Visit Ends, China Gears Up for Military Drills: Latest Updates

Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House, met with Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, in a series of high profile meetings. Ms. Pelosi was presented with an award given to those who have made outstanding contributions to Taiwan.CreditCredit...Taiwan Presidential Office, via Reuters

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Nancy Pelosi Arrives in Taiwan: Live Updates

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taiwan on Tuesday, making the highest-level visit by a U.S. official in 25 years and setting up a tense standoff with China that could lead to more aggressive military posturing.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/08/02/world/pelosi-taiwan

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Latest Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates

MYKOLAIV, Ukraine — Breaking through the monthslong Russian blockade of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports, a ship loaded with corn became the first to sail out since the invasion Monday, raising hopes that desperately needed grain will soon reach destinations in the Middle East and Africa and ease a global food crisis.

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Latest Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates

ODESA, Ukraine —President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, visiting a port in the Odesa region on Friday, expressed hope that grain exports could begin within the coming days, as U.S. and European ambassadors called on Russia to heed a deal to get the grain moving.

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Ukraine-Russia War: Latest News

Ukraine expressed a heightened sense of urgency on Thursday over its looming counteroffensive in the south, saying Russia was racing to bolster its forces in the region and taking further steps to solidify its political hold in the territory it controls.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/07/28/world/ukraine-russia-news-war

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Anti-U.N. Protests in Congo Leave 15 Dead, Including 3 Peacekeepers

Demonstrators have accused international forces of failing to deter armed groups responsible for a wave of deadly attacks.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/27/world/africa/congo-un-peacekeepers.html

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Ukraine Live Updates: E.U. Agrees to Sweeping Curbs on Energy Use to Counter Moscow’s Leverage

BRUSSELS — European Union energy ministers on Tuesday hammered out a deal to curb their natural gas consumption, finding enough common political ground for a quick compromise intended to avert an energy meltdown as Russia toys with the union’s fuel supplies.

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Brittney Griner Trial and Russia-Ukraine War: Live Updates

Overnight missile strikes on a residential tower and a recreational center in a coastal town southwest of the Black Sea port city of Odesa early Friday killed at least 19 and injured dozens of others, Ukrainian officials said.

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Latest Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates

MADRID — NATO has continued to emphasize member nations’ unity against Russia. But as the alliance concludes its annual summit meeting on Thursday — in the same week that the Group of 7 industrialized nations held their own gathering in Germany — there is an abiding question about how Western leaders can keep their publics committed to backing Ukraine against Russia’s invasion.