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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is making an unannounced, but widely anticipated, stop in Taiwan. The move is expected to increase already heightened tensions between the U.S. and China. (Image credit: SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

The seeds of the U.S. counterterrorism operation that killed al-Qaida’s leader were planted over many months.

If you want an illustration of the political perils of making huge oil and gas profits in the UK, look no further than a £400 charitable donation from the boss of BP Plc. That’s what Chief Executive Officer Bernard Looney

The House speaker left Malaysia headed toward Taiwan for meetings with President Tsai Ing-wen and local legislators, as Beijing bristled over what it said was interference with its core interests.

Raila Odinga, son of one of Kenya’s revered independence leaders, and William Ruto, whose campaign slogan is “every hustle matters,” are both from a political elite in which alliances and enmities shift with the political moment.

Officials are racing to clear a backlog of millions of metric tons of grain trapped by Russia’s invasion after the first shipment left the country, a task that could take months in an effort to boost wartime exports.

The US has no DNA confirmation of the death of al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul – but has verified his identity through “multiple” other sources, the White House has said.

LONDON (Reuters) – Russia on Tuesday said that the United States, the world’s top military power, was directly involved in the conflict in Ukraine because U.S. spies were approving and coordinating Ukrainian missile strikes on Russian forces. Russia’s invasion of

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