Our Monday morning stroll around the world

🇸🇲 San Marino hired Ted Lasso. San Marino, a country nestled inside Italy with a population of ~33,000, defeated Liechtenstein by a score of 1-0 in an official competitive match last Thursday to earn its first-ever competitive win in men’s international soccer. Prior to the victory, the San Marino men’s soccer team had an overall competitive record of 0-171-5 since they first began competing on the global stage in 1990.

🇨🇳 China is ending foreign adoptions of its children by non-relatives. Since 1992, international families have adopted 160,000+ Chinese children, with just over half being placed with US families. Over the years, the international adoption program became a means for Chinese families to evade punishment for violating Beijing’s one-child policy, which was scrapped in 2015. China’s recent decision to halt foreign adoptions comes as the country faces a declining birth rate and rapidly aging population.

🇪🇸 Venezuela’s opposition leader was granted political asylum in Spain. Venezuelan presidential candidate Edmundo González fled to Spain yesterday in response to an arrest warrant from Venezuelan authorities accusing him of terrorism, conspiracy, and other crimes related to July’s disputed presidential election. Incumbent Nicolás Maduro was declared the winner of the election by local officials, despite the main opposition party and some Western nations – including the US – claiming González won the presidency.