The United States reportedly maintains some 13,000 troops in Afghanistan, largely providing training missions to local Afghan forces while also conducting counterterrorism operations against terror groups.
The US this summer also has seen its greatest social unrest in 50 years, with nationwide anti-racism protests that even spread to some European cities.
The UK now faces the dire prospect of exiting the EU without a deal, as the nation concurrently hurtles toward what the Bank of England predicts will be its worst recession in three centuries. This is all in the context of the Huawei ban, which will cause an estimated two-year delay to the UK rollout of 5G services and all the supplementary benefits that technological milestone will bring.
The US recorded a death toll of 657 in the past 24 hours, said the Johns Hopkins University tracker. That was the third day in a row it had come in under 700, bringing the country's overall toll to 98,875 deaths.
The USDA reported US wheat export sales totaled 312,100 metric tons in the week ending Aug 29, below analysts' forecasts that ranged from 400,000 to 800,000 metric tons.
The US Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised the benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points, the third increase in 2017.
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The United States and Russia both announced over the weekend that they will suspend a major nuclear weapons agreement, known as the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, a decision that has triggered grave concerns over the possibility of a new arms race between the world's two largest nuclear powers.
The UBS report expects the current fragmented after-school tutoring market to consolidate, resulting in mergers of big national companies. Top tutoring companies, leveraging their visible and consistent tutoring qualities, appeal to quality tutors and brand recognition, and are better positioned to gain market share.
The US State Department meanwhile ordered its non-emergency staff to leave Venezuela but refused to comply with a full expulsion, saying it would maintain diplomatic ties with "the government of interim president Guaido".
The UK accounted for 23 percent of Alipay transaction volumes in Europe, the second-highest in the region. Germany, the strongest performer in Europe, accounted for 40 percent, while France generated 22 percent. Italy, where Alipay launched in April, accounted for a further 5 percent of transactions