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Worrying peaks in AsiaThe coronavirus pandemic is taking a bad turn in parts of Asia. In Japan and South Korea, which had long managed to avoid the worst, the falls are climbing fast. And because Hong Kong is struggling with a spike, a…

(Would you like to receive this briefing by email? Here is the registration.)Good Morning.We report the latest from the US election, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's quarantine and a turning point in Nagorno-Karabakh.More than a week after…

Biden's European allies greet a familiar facePolitical leaders across the continent showered the elected president with congratulations. Unlike President Trump, Joe Biden, who was elected the 46th President of the United States on…

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell cast a spell on Hillary Clinton Wednesday, and we're here for it! Amy Coney Barrett was retried in the Supreme Court on Monday - Hillary Clinton's 73rd birthday. Advertising - story continues below…

China links a single infection detected through routine tests with an outbreak in KashgarThe Chinese authorities have ordered sweeping testing and travel restrictions on the city of Kashgar in the far west of the country after a single…

Death and despair in Nagorno-KarabakhThree weeks of dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh, an ethnically Armenian enclave that belongs to Azerbaijan under international law, has embroiled itself in a brutal war of attrition.Azerbaijan has deployed…

One million new coronavirus cases in three daysMore than a million new cases have been reported worldwide in the past three days as France, Russia, Nepal and several American states set records for the highest daily number of new…

UPDATE, 12:49 p.m .: Donald Trump is on "uncharted territory" with his coronavirus condition, the former Celebrity Apprentice doctor said today when the patient announced he was going back to the White House. Dr. Sean Conley…

(Would you like to receive this briefing by email? Here is the registration.)Good Morning.We cover the takeaways by more than two decades of President Trump's tax return, the worldwide death toll from the coronavirus and the death of a man…