Author: Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY

Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, says he’s resigning because a chronic illness has resurfaced.

Less than half of Americans and Britons had a good impression of their government’s handling of COVID-19 compared with 73% who gave good reviews in Denmark, Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, South Korea, Italy and Sweden.

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Alexei Navalny, the effective face of opposition to Putin, fell ill after drinking tea on a flight to Moscow.

“Big surge in New Zealand … it’s terrible,” Trump said. New Zealand has 13 new cases and prime minister Jacinda Ardern has something to say.

On Aug. 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb nicknamed “Little Boy” over Hiroshima, Japan, instantly killing 70,000 people. By 1950, 200,000 died.

The Pentagon is proceeding with President Donald Trump’s plan to move 12,000 U.S. troops out of Germany, which will cost billions of dollars.

Footage on Iranian state TV showed the replica being struck as part of an exercise Iran called “Great Prophet 14.”

The FBI believes that a Chinese scientist with links to Beijing’s military is hiding out in China’s consulate in San Francisco to evade arrest.

The U.S. State Department said in a statement that the closure was to protect American intellectual property and private information.