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South Korea can now develop missiles of whatever range and payload it wants, but analysts worry it could stoke tension.
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WeChat, TikTok, other apps targeted by Trump are eligible for review by Biden’s team, sources say.
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Turkey will take lead in securing Kabul airport after US troops depart, Biden and Erdoğan agree.
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Experts are pointing fingers at climate change, saying it is ‘a long-term tax on the water budget of the west’.
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Danny Fenster makes appearance on ‘incitement’ charge, but the US consular authorities have not been able to see him.
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Long drive to make Juneteenth a national holiday succeeds amid the US’s new reckoning with its history of racism.
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The decision follows the resolution of a long-standing trade dispute between the US and EU.
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The first meeting between US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin ended with little agreement.
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The governor of Texas signed into law a bill allowing unlicensed, concealed handguns to be carried in public.
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The delays at Yantian Port are further snarling trade routes and lifting record freight prices even higher.
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House of Representatives votes to repeal 2002 authorisation of Iraq war as President Biden backs a review of US posture.
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The summit between Putin and Biden showed only that they have not learned much from the mistakes of their predecessors.
![The Nestle-Cargill case involves a law enacted by the very first United States Congress in 1789, the Alien Tort Statute, which permits foreign citizens to sue in US courts for human rights abuses, but the question for the Supreme Court justices in this case was whether it permits lawsuits against American companies [File: Alex Brandon/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/AP21146590506844-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
The court ruled against Malians who said they were taken from their country as kids and forced to work on cocoa farms.
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The decision was a victory for a Catholic agency that barred same-sex couples from applying to become foster parents.