Belarusian presidential candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya has reportedly fled to Lithuania after visiting with Belarus's election commission to dispute President Alexander Lukashenko’s victory in the country's Aug. 9 election, Euronews reported Aug. 11.
Russia has officially registered a COVID-19 vaccine named “Sputnik V,” becoming the first country in the world to approve a vaccine for use to prevent the novel virus, Novaya Gazeta reported Aug. 11.
Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab and his ministerial cabinet resigned amid renewed anti-government protests following last week’s deadly port explosion in Beirut, The Daily Star reported Aug 10.
European Commission Executive Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis said that the bloc’s debt and deficit rules for national budgets will remain suspended until at least 2022 due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, the Financial Times reported Aug. 10.
Chinese exports unexpectedly increased by 7.2 percent in U.S. dollar terms in July while imports were down 1.4 percent, Bloomberg reported Aug. 7.
Bilateral trade between China and Russia is moving away from the U.S. dollar, bringing the two countries closer to a “financial alliance,” according to an Aug. 6 report released by Nikkei Asian Review.
China’s foreign ministry said it firmly opposes any official U.S. exchanges with Taiwan, warning that a visit to the island by a U.S. Cabinet official would threaten “peace and stability” in the region, AFP reported Aug. 5. The statement comes a day after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that Secretary Alex Azar would lead a delegation to Taipai in the coming days to discuss Taiwan’s successful COVID-19 strategy.
Saudi Arabia worked with China to construct a facility to produce yellowcake uranium from uranium ore in a remote area of northwestern Saudi Arabia, The Wall Street Journal reported Aug. 4.
Colombia's Supreme Court on Aug. 4 ordered former Colombian President and sitting Sen. Alvaro Uribe placed under house arrest for alleged witness tampering and obstruction of justice, Reuters reported Aug. 4.
In a campaign speech, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko accused the Russian government of lying and attempting to destabilize Belarus, pointing to the July 29 arrests of Russian mercenaries outside Minsk, RBC reported Aug 4.
