Author: Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY

The move is in keeping with President Donald Trump’s pledge to cut the number of U.S. military personnel deployed overseas.

A British court will decide whether Julian Assange is sent to the U.S. to stand trial where he faces a maximum sentence of up to 175 years in prison.

“Meddling in the Ballot Box” says the U.S. has meddled in 81 foreign elections since WWII, while Russia/Soviet Union has in 36 (including America’s).

Germany tested the Russian opposition leader and found the same poison used against former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Britain.

Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, says he’s resigning because a chronic illness has resurfaced.

Less than half of Americans and Britons had a good impression of their government’s handling of COVID-19 compared with 73% who gave good reviews in Denmark, Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, South Korea, Italy and Sweden.

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Alexei Navalny, the effective face of opposition to Putin, fell ill after drinking tea on a flight to Moscow.

“Big surge in New Zealand … it’s terrible,” Trump said. New Zealand has 13 new cases and prime minister Jacinda Ardern has something to say.

On Aug. 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb nicknamed “Little Boy” over Hiroshima, Japan, instantly killing 70,000 people. By 1950, 200,000 died.

The Pentagon is proceeding with President Donald Trump’s plan to move 12,000 U.S. troops out of Germany, which will cost billions of dollars.