The U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, hosted the foreign ministers from the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Republic of Kazakhstan, on August 3, 2016, in Washington. It is the second meeting of its kind, in the C5+1 format. The topic discussed concerned regional security, economic connectivity, humanitarian issues, environmental issues and climate change. Furthermore, the U.S granted a support up to $15 million. Washington recalibrates its foreign policy in Central Asia prior to the presidential election in the country. As a matter of fact, the American presence and interest in Central Asia were not the priority of Obama’s governance, more focused on other countries such as Iran or Cuba.

Fifty of the nation’s most senior Republican national security officials, sent a letter to Trump with declaring, that he has “lacks the character, values and experience” to be president and “would put at risk our country’s national security and well-being.” The letter questions his knowledge of and belief in the Constitution and characterized him with words: “demonstrated repeatedly that he has little understanding” of the nation’s “vital national interests, its complex diplomatic challenges, its indispensable alliances and the democratic values” on which American policy should be based. 

The turmoil began several spectators were expelled from Olympic arenas for displaying anti-government banners and T-shirts. Judge Joao Augusto Carneiro Araujo made the ruling after a request by the Ministerio Publico do Brasil, an independent body defending the public interest. They argued that the International Olympic Committee, the Brazilian government and the Rio organizing committee had overstepped their authority when they banned peaceful political protests from Olympic venues.

To avoid criticism and rift inside the party, Donald J.Trump has endorsed House of Representative Speaker Paul Ryan, Arizona Sen. John McCain as well as New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte. Recently, Trump declined to endorse them, but for improved appreciation of his candidature and odds from high ranked officials, he’d made that decision for party unity. "It's time to unite our Party and deny third term of Obama. I have officially endorsed Paul Ryan -- and together, we will fight for YOU, and together we will Make America Great Again!"

On Saturday, Brazilian’s media outlet Veja reported that jailed former executive at the Odebrecht company has told prosecutors he contributed illegally to the election campaign of now-interim President Michel Temer in 2014. In the plea bargain viewed by Veja, Odebrecht said Temer asked him for campaign funds in 2014 when he was vice president and seeking re-election on the ticket of now-suspended President Dilma Rousseff.

Mark Pieth, Swiss anti-corruption expert, and Joseph Stiglitz joined a seven-member commission whose aim is to investigate Panama’s immensely opaque financial system, but both quit the group on Friday, saying that the country’s government refused to guarantee the committee’s report would be made public. The Panamanian government defended the committee’s “autonomous” management in a statement and it said the resignations of Stiglitz and Pieth were due to unspecified “internal differences”.