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The total number of monkeypox cases in the United States reaches 300.
2022-06-28

Tonga is hit by ashfall and a tsunami after the eruption of Hunga Tonga, destroying homes as locals struggle to find higher ground. Major flooding is reported in the capital Nukuʻalofa. Shock waves from the eruption are detected as far away as Alaska, United States. Other Pacific countries have also advised their citizens to seek higher ground. Internet access has reportedly been disrupted in Tonga.
2022-01-15

The first death from coronavirus in the United States is confirmed after a man dies in a hospital in the Seattle area.
2020-02-29

The United States target Al-Shabaab in a series of airstrikes that killed four. The strikes were in coordination with the government of Somalia.
2019-12-29

A student shoots his parents dead in a dorm at Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, United States.
2018-03-2

South Korean president Moon Jae-in states that North Korea is willing to enter talks with the United States in an effort to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula.
2018-02-25

The United States agrees to a plan to return some land, used by the US Military's Futenma Airbase in Okinawa, to Japan.
2013-04-5

Almazbek Atambayev, the newly elected President of Kyrgyzstan, states that a lease for a United States air base in Manas will not be renewed when it expires in 2014.
2011-11-1

The BBC apologises after offending the sensibilities of Japanese viewers by broadcasting jokes targeting Tsutomu Yamaguchi, who survived both atomic bomb attacks carried out by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
2011-01-23

The United States announces it is to deploy troops along the US-Mexico border in August in what it sees as an effort to improve its security.
2010-07-20