Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, hospital officials in Moscow said.

Taiwan fired warning shots at a Chinese drone that buzzed an offshore islet on Tuesday shortly after President Tsai Ing-wen said she had ordered Taiwan’s military to take “strong countermeasures” against what she termed Chinese provocations.

“Team Biden’s debacle in Afghanistan heralded the arrival of American weakness,” Pompeo wrote. This weakness, Pompeo said, emboldened Russian President Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine, China to threaten Taiwan, and Iran to put bounties on Americans. 

The “God Loves You Tour,” a six-city endeavor that has become Graham’s annual effort to spread the Gospel and bring hope to a domestic audience, begins in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on Sept. 24.

The capital city of 150,000 people and 30,000 in surrounding communities could go without running water indefinitely, as officials warned anyone with access to tap water should boil it for three minutes.

Former President Donald Trump’s social media platform Truth Social has not yet been approved for distribution on Alphabet Inc’s Google Play Store due to insufficient content moderation, according to a Google spokesperson on Tuesday.

Dr. Takeshi Kasai, the WHO’s Regional Director for the Western Pacific, has been placed on an indefinite leave after an investigation into alleged racism and abuse.

Powerful storms toppled trees and downed thousands of power lines on Monday, including one that electrocuted a 14-year-old girl.