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Pentagon must realize Afghanistan cannot afford complacency

Afghan Commandos listening to a briefing for an imminent operation to retake a nearby Taliban-held village, base near Farahrud Bazaar, Bolo Bluk district, Farah province, March 7, 2018. /Getty Im

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South Korea Prime Minister Chung Resigns in Bid For Presidency

South Korea’s prime minister resigned his post to prepare for a run in next year’s presidential race, facing a battle to win voters upset over runaway real estate price

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Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal resembles Trumpian tendencies

Kandahar Air Field, a NATO-led coalition forces' military base, in Daman district of Kandahar province, Afghanistan, April 15, 2021. /Xinhua Editor's note: Thomas O. Falk is a London-based pol

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India hits 100 million vaccinations as Covid-19 cases surge

India has been gripped by a life or death race against Covid-19, as the country of nearly 1.4 billion people rolls out one of the fastest vaccination drives in the worl

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Tokyo governor says will ask government for emergency measures to stem COVID-19 rise

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said on Thursday she would ask the central government to impose emergency measures in the capital region to stem a surge of COVID-19 infecti

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Scientists warn of more contagious coronavirus variants in U.S.

Residents line up to get COVID-19 vaccine in Florida, U.S., December 31, 2020. /CFP While the number of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths have fallen from their peaks in the U.S., an

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Washington's return to the JCPOA is geopolitical necessity

A meeting of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) Joint Commission is held in Vienna, Austria, December 6, 2019. /Xinhua Editor's note:Thomas O. Falk is a London-based political anal

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For VC Hans Tung, the personal becomes public in a growing campaign to ‘stop Asian hate’

Longtime venture capitalist Hans Tung is a big guy. His size might just be lifesaving.A first-generation Taiwanese-American who came to the U.S. and to L.A. specifically in 1984, it was a fraught time

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Japan's malls and restaurants brace for Olympics without foreigners

Shopping malls and restaurants in Japan will miss out on a business boom, as Tokyo expects to hold the Olympics without overseas spectators, dealing another blow to ind

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NASA's Mars rover sends back grinding, squealing sounds of driving

This photo provided by NASA shows tire tracks left by the Mars Perseverance rover. /AP NASA's newest Mars rover has sent back the first-ever sounds of driving on the red planet – a grinding, c

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Regenerative agriculture is the next great ally in fight against climate change

It seems that every week a new agribusiness, consumer packaged goods company, bank, technology corporation, celebrity or Facebook friend announces support for regenerative agriculture.For those of us

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India giving COVID-19 vaccines to more people as cases rise

India is expanding its COVID-19 vaccination drive beyond health care and front-line workers, offering the shots to older people and those with medical conditions that p

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Deterrence rationales missing from U.S. military's China assessment

Editor's note: Hamzah Rifaat Hussain is a former visiting fellow at the Stimson Center in Washington and serves as assistant researcher at the Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI) in Pakista

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Americas COVID-19 death toll hits 1 million, hospitals brimming: PAHO

A patient is moved from an ambulance into the COVID-19 treatment center at Dr. Carlos MacGregor Sanchez General Hospital in Mexico City, Mexico, January 10, 2021. /AP Over one million people h

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China's fourth quarter GDP hits pre-virus rate of 6.5%

A view of Luijiazui Finance District, Shanghai, China. /CFP China on Monday reported agross domestic product (GDP) increase of 6.5 percent in the fourth quarter of 2020, bringing the country's

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Pfizer vaccine appears effective against coronavirus variants: study

A member of the medical staff prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine at the Notre-Dame hospital in Brussels, Belgium, December 28, 2020. /CFP Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech's COVID-

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US to require negative COVID-19 test from UK travelers

The United States will require airline passengers from Britain to get a negative COVID-19 test before their flight, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention annou