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WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – Climate change will exacerbate instability around the world and drive vulnerable people to flee hard-hit regions, the Biden administration warns as it…
View More US intelligence reports warn of climate-linked global instability
NEW YORK (REUTERS) – The United States has offered to meet North Korea without preconditions and made clear that Washington has no hostile intent toward…
View More US to North Korea: It's time for sustained, substantive talks
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Mr Nicholas Burns, President Joe Biden’s nominee to be United States ambassador to China, said on Wednesday (Oct 20) that China’s “genocide…
View More US nominee for ambassador to China Burns says Xinjiang 'genocide' must stop
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The career diplomat US President Joe Biden named to lead the Central Intelligence Agency is creating a high-level unit aimed at sharpening…
View More Biden's CIA director creates high-level unit focusing on China
A new trade and technology partnership aims to counter China, but tensions over issues like metal tariffs remain. By Ana Swanson WASHINGTON — The United…
View More U.S. and Europe Announce New Trade Cooperation, but Disputes Linger
WASHINGTON/PARIS (REUTERS) – The United States has reached out to China diplomatically about reducing its purchases of Iranian crude oil, US and European officials said…
View More US has reached out to China about cutting oil imports from Iran, officials say
CANBERRA, Australia — When Australia’s prime minister, Scott Morrison, proclaimed a new “forever partnership” strengthening military ties with the United States, it was a decisive…
View More Australia Took On China. Did It Get It Right?
The Justice Department has reached an agreement that will allow Huawei Technologies’ chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, to return to China in exchange for admitting…
View More The Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou is set to be released.
WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Joe Biden cut a beleaguered figure Thursday (Sept 23) as he raced to extinguish political fires on the left and right,…
View More US President Biden scrambles between multiple political fires
PARIS (AFP) – US President Joe Biden and French counterpart Emmanuel Macron are to speak later on Wednesday (Sept 22) by telephone for the first…
View More Macron, Biden to speak Wednesday: France
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – President Joe Biden will push world leaders on Wednesday (Sept 22) to do more to curb the Covid-19 pandemic, and announce a…
View More Biden to pledge 500 million new vaccine donations to rally global pandemic fight
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) – US President Joe Biden told the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday (Sept 21) that the United States does not seek a…
View More Biden says US does not seek 'new Cold War', in reference to China
The new U.S. alliance with Australia and Britain against China has put Europe closer to a question it has tried to avoid: Which side are…
View More The Sharp U.S. Pivot to Asia Is Throwing Europe Off Balance
Australia is set to announce a new nuclear-powered submarine fleet using American and British technology, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation said in a report on Wednesday…
View More Australia to get nuclear-powered submarines in pact with US, UK: Report