Pakistan celebrates its Independence Day on August 14.

On Independence Day, protests under the banner "Free America" criticized President Trump's policies, including his $5 trillion tax cut bill, which includes significant austerity cuts to social services, reduced food aid, and the loss of medical insurance for nearly 20 million people.

Volodymyr Zelensky accused President Vladimir Putin of threatening everyone with a nuclear war.

India celebrates the 78th anniversary of its independence from the colonial British rule.

Iran’s interim foreign minister says the expansion of ties with India is important to promotion of regional peace and stability.

South Koreans celebrate the 105th anniversary of independence from Japan, with many opposing Seoul's policy of patching up relations with Tokyo.

“What to the slave is the Fourth of July," asked Frederick Douglass in his scathing speech at the US Independence Day function on July 5, 1852. These words of a former slave turned author and orator who spearheaded a popular movement to abolish slavery in the US ring true even 171 years on.