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The Senate passes debt ceiling bill that prevents the U.S. from defaulting. A mom takes on YouTube over deadly social media blackout challenge. The U.S. and China headline a global defense summit.
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U.S. says China has rejected an invitation to meet at summit in Singapore
The defense chiefs from the U.S. and China are headlining an international defense summit in Singapore, but it appears they will not directly meet with each other.
A pop-up restaurant in Kabul is run by women for women. The Taliban is watching
This start-up aims to provide both food and economic opportunity to Afghan women. But success means first overcoming economic crises, cultural taboos and Taliban interference.
Australia's most decorated soldier loses defamation case for alleged war crimes
An Australian federal court judge ruled that newspaper articles published in 2018 were substantially true about a number of war crimes committed by Ben Roberts-Smith in Afghanistan.
Decoupling reliance on China has been a difficult to sell to U.S. business leaders
U.S.-China relations continue to sour. NPR's A Martinez talks to Yale University senior fellow Stephen Roach, who outlines a roadmap for relations with China in his book: Accidental Conflict.
The plan to remove a mosque's domes in China sparks rare protest
Hundreds of people gathered outside a mosque in southwestern China. They were protesting the planned removal of the mosque's domes, part of a nationwide campaign to eliminate Islamic influences.
In the Philippines, the Marcos family is a blueprint for authoritarianism
NPR's history podcast Throughline examines the rise and fall — and the eventual return of the Ferdinand Marcos family to political power in the Philippines.
U.S. and its allies condemn North Korea's failed attempt to launch a spy satellite
North Korean state media reported the rocket's second stage malfunctioned, and the projectile fell in the Yellow Sea, off South Korea's West Coast. North Korea says it will try again.
North Korea says its attempt to launch its first spy satellite ended in failure
Following the launch, officials in South Korea's capital of Seoul sent alerts for residents to prepare for evacuation, but there were no immediate reports of damages or disruption.
Morning news brief
Russia launched a pre-dawn air raid on Ukraine's capital. Republican presidential hopefuls head to Iowa. China launches a new crew into space, including its first civilian astronaut.