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The United States walked out of a UN disarmament forum in protest after Venezuela took up the conference’s rotating chairmanship, insisting it would not participate “US boycotts arms control conference in protest at Venezuela”

While details of NATO’s new military strategy are still unknown, odds are the alliance is simply falling in line with recent updates to US doctrine “Obeying Washington? ‘New’ NATO strategy parrots hawkish US posture”

Malaysia has announced it will send 3,000 metric tonnes of non-recyclable plastic back to developed nations that illegally shipped it there, drawing a line in “‘We will not be world’s dumping ground’: Malaysia to return 3,000 tonnes of waste”

Senior Taliban officials including the group’s top political advisor met with Afghan political figures in Moscow on Tuesday, saying they were committed to peace in “Taliban insurgents want peace, senior leader says at Moscow talks”

Planned Parenthood has said that Missouri State officials may not renew their license, which could bar the clinic, the last in the state, from performing “Missouri may become the only state with zero abortion clinics”

Britain’s equality watchdog is launching a formal investigation to determine whether Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party has “discriminated against, harassed or victimized people because they are “UK equality watchdog opens anti-Semitism probe into Labour party”

Violent protests targeting a minority community in a predominantly Muslim area have erupted in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province after a Hindu vet was accused of “Blasphemy charge against local vet triggers violent anti-Hindu riot in Pakistan (PHOTOS)”

Whoever wins the bitter trade row between the two biggest world economies, the US or China, the consequences are set to spread far beyond… erasing “US-China trade war could cost global economy $600 billion”

Russian Washington Capitals star forward Evgeny Kuznetsov has denied using illicit drugs after a video of him sitting beside two lines of white powder circulated “‘Not in love with the coco?’ NHL star Kuznetsov denies drug use as ‘cocaine’ video appears online”

Several Russian media outlets have caused confusion by reporting that the Russian Orthodox Church is opening a new temple in Westeros – not the fantasy “Confusion over new Russian Orthodox Church in Westeros (no, really)”