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June 11 (UPI) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet with President Joe Biden in mid-July the White House has announced.

June 11 (UPI) -- Taiwanese semiconductor giant TSMC is reviewing plans to build a plant in Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture, according to a Japanese press report.

June 11 (UPI) -- South Korea's parliament shut down after several people affiliated with the ruling Democratic Party tested positive for COVID-19.

June 11 (UPI) -- First Lady Jill Biden and Kate Middleton held an early education roundtable while visiting the Connor Downs Academy in Hayle, West Cornwall, on Friday afternoon.

June 11 (UPI) -- President Joe Biden joined other world leaders in Britain at the G7 Summit on Friday as they prepared to discuss a range of issues that include the coronavirus pandemic, global warming and free trade.

June 11 (UPI) -- North Korea's second-in-command inspected a construction site for 10,000 new apartment units in Pyongyang, state media said.

June 11 (UPI) -- Yamina Party leader Naftali Bennett will take over as Israeli prime minister Sunday in the first substantial leadership change in the past two decades.

SEOUL, June 11 (UPI) -- South Korea's main opposition People Power Party announced 36-year-old Lee Jun-seok as its chairman at its convention on Friday, making him the youngest-ever leader of a major political party in the country's history.

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June 11 (UPI) -- The Biden administration has blacklisted a smuggling network it accuses of aiding Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in war-torn Yemen.

June 10 (UPI) -- President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson signed a new Atlantic Charter on Thursday ahead of Friday's G7 Summit in Britain.

June 10 (UPI) -- Damien Tarel, the man who slapped French President Emmanuel Macron in the face earlier this week, was sentenced to four months in prison on Thursday.

June 10 (UPI) -- A residential building collapsed in Mumbai, India, amid heavy rains, killing 11 people, local officials said.

June 10 (UPI) -- The European Space Agency has approved a new mission to study Venus -- the third new mission to Venus to be announced in the past two weeks.

June 10 (UPI) -- The United Nations ramped up their response Thursday to the famine in Ethiopia's Tigray, calling for unfettered humanitarian access and urgent funding.

June 10 (UPI) -- China's top diplomat to South Korea said Seoul should take into consideration Beijing's views on the South China Sea and Taiwan.