VOA60: August 5, 2022

China says it is stopping all talks on major issues with the United States following a U.S. congressional delegation’s visit to Taiwan.

In Iraq, a United Nations representative holds talks with Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to get his followers to end their occupation of parliament.

Three more ships carrying grain leave Ukraine for Istanbul under an agreement with Russia and the U.N.

And Russia says it could negotiate a prisoner exchange, one day after a court ordered a nine-year prison sentence for American basketball player Brittney Griner for a drug offense.

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