Google Alert - World

	World Daily update ⋅ August 5, 2021
	NEWS
	The New York Times Belarus Sprinter's Defection Sheds Light on a Dictator's Levers of Control The New York Times Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, and authoritarian leaders before him, have used sports as a propaganda tool. But defections have had a long history of puncturing their aura of invincibility. Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Belarusian dissidents fear the regime will put them into detention camps. It may have already built one CNN A possible prison camp for political dissidents is seen an hour's drive from the Belarusian capital, Minsk. Vilnius, Lithuania (CNN) Three layers of ... Flag as irrelevant
	The Washington Post Effort to repeal Middle East war authorizations advances in Senate with bipartisan backing The Washington Post A bipartisan majority of the panel voted 14 to 8 in favor of repealing authorizations Congress passed in 1991 and 2002 to approve of hostilities against Saddam Hussein's erstwhile regime, first to push Iraqi troops out of Kuwait and later to depose him. Flag as irrelevant
	CNN What we still don't know about Beirut's port explosion CNN No two stories of human tragedy are alike, and most interactions between people here end not with a goodbye, but with an invocation that Lebanon's ruling elite be toppled. The political class is, overwhelmingly, blamed for the disaster. Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times Collapse: Inside Lebanon's Worst Economic Meltdown in More Than a Century The New York Times Lebanon, a small Mediterranean country still haunted by a 15-year civil war that ended in 1990, is in the throes of a financial collapse that the World Bank has said could rank among the world's worst since the mid-1800s. Flag as irrelevant
	Politico Senate nears pivotal 60-vote threshold for scrapping Iraq war authorizations Politico Congress is on track to mark a 50-year milestone this year as the Senate closes in on the votes it needs to repeal outdated authorizations for the use of military force in Iraq. The historic, years-long push to rein in executive branch war-making authorities isn't ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times The Exodus of Expertise Under Trump The New York Times Hundreds of scientists and policy analysts left the government during the last administration. That's a problem for President Biden's climate agenda. Flag as irrelevant
	The Washington Post WHO calls for moratorium on booster vaccine shots through September, citing global disparity The Washington Post The World Health Organization is calling for a moratorium on booster shots of coronavirus vaccines through at least September as poorer countries struggle to access the shots, even for high-risk populations such as health-care workers and the elderly. Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Olympic sprinter Kristina Timanovskaya lands in Austria after refusing to fly back to Belarus CNN Timanovskaya was seen arriving at Tokyo's Narita airport on Wednesday morning with luggage and wearing blue jeans and a blue sweatshirt. She later boarded Austrian Airlines flight OS52, which took off at 11 a.m. local time. Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times Turks Wage War on Social Media as Raging Fires Turn Political The New York Times ISTANBUL — As Turkey battles its worst forest fires in decades, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is under ferocious attack for his handling of the disaster, as well as his broader management of a country that was already battered by an economic crisis and the ... Flag as irrelevant
See more results | Edit this alert

You have received this email because you have subscribed to Google Alerts. Unsubscribe | View all your alerts

Receive this alert as RSS feed

Send Feedback