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The United States gives Ukraine permission to strike Russian territory near Kharkiv Oblast with U.S.-supplied weapons, but not with long-range missiles.
2024-05-30

The United States vetoes a UN Security Council resolution supporting the State of Palestine joining the United Nations. The vote was 12 in favor, the United States opposed, and two abstentions, from the United Kingdom and Switzerland.
2024-04-18

India surpasses nine million total cases of COVID-19, becoming the second country in the world to reach that milestone after the United States.
2020-11-20

A resolution is adopted by the United Nations Human Rights Council with 19 votes in favour, 7 against and 21 abstentions, accusing Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro government of thousands of extrajudicial murders, forced disappearances, and torture, after being proposed by the Lima Group and backed by many European countries. The UN resolves to send an investigative mission to the country. Maduro says the motion was "produced by the United States to run a hate campaign". Another Venezuelan representative calls the UN a "small group" that they "will not cooperate with".
2019-09-27

The governments of the United States and South Korea begin their Foal Eagle and Key Resolve military drills.
2018-04-1

Former presidential candidate Manuel Baldizón is captured in the United States accused of receiving bribes from Odebrecht.
2018-01-20

The United States launches a prosecution against Liberty Reserve, based in Costa Rica, for money laundering worth $6 billion.
2013-05-28

3 Doors Down bass player Todd Harrell is charged in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, with vehicular homicide by intoxication after being involved in a car crash which killed another driver.
2013-04-20

Two police officers are fatally shot outside a supermarket in Topeka, Kansas, United States. A 22-year-old man wanted in connection with crime, David Edward Tiscareno, is at large.
2012-12-16

A series of coordinated bombings at the U.S. consulate in Peshawar and at a ruling party rally in the Pakistani North-West Frontier Province kills fifty people and injures one hundred.
2010-04-5