The US Department of Defense has expressed concern about the security situation in Afghanistan, but still plans to completely withdraw US troops by the end of August.
A Chinese court has upheld a Canadian man's death sentence for drug smuggling. Observers say the ruling appears designed to increase pressure on Canada to release a detained executive of Chinese tech giant Huawei.
Athletes generally compete without masks, but one Brazilian volleyball player at the Tokyo Olympics said he decided to keep his on for the sake of his family.
The United States says two Myanmar citizens have been arrested in New York for allegedly plotting to injure or kill the South Eastern Asian nation's ambassador to the United Nations.
US report: Origins of UFOs remain unknown
The US government says the origins of objects commonly referred to as UFOs remain unknown, but it warns that such objects could pose a national security risk.
A report compiled by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence was released on Friday.
The report states there have been 144 observations of what the government officially calls "unidentified aerial phenomena," or UAP, since 2004.
It says that except for one case attributed to a large, deflating balloon, the other sightings remain unexplained, due largely to a lack of sufficient data. It suggests a possibility that they may represent unknown technologies deployed by China or Russia.