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The White House on Tuesday welcomed a bill that would allow the United States to ban Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said in a statement.The bill was backed by Mark Warner, a senior US senator from the Democratic party, and John Thune, a South Dakot...
Business
The European Union is seeking a trade agreement with the United States that will allow the EU to access some benefits under President Joe Biden's ambitious climate plan, an EU official said Friday.Officials are hoping to make progress on this as early as next week, when Biden hosts European Comm...
The United States' candidate to head the World Bank, Ajay Banga, told reporters Thursday he is looking towards more private sector funding to tackle financing for global problems.Banga's comments came a week after President Joe Biden announced his nomination, and as the development lender ca...
World
The United States (US) announced a new $400 million security aid package for Ukraine on Friday that features various types of ammunition for Kyiv's forces."This military assistance package includes more ammunition for US-provided HIMARS and howitzers, which Ukraine is using so effectively t...
Former US president Donald Trump can be sued by police and others injured in the January 6, 2021 attack by his supporters on the US Capitol, the Justice Department said in a court filing Thursday.In an official legal opinion submitted to federal court in Washington, the department said although...
Legal reforms toward equal rights for women around the globe fell to the slowest pace in more than two decades last year, despite positive developments in sub-Saharan Africa, the World Bank said Thursday.Just 34 reforms to improve women's economic participation were made in the year to October 2...
The United States (US) is "confident" that China is considering providing lethal materiel to support the Russian forces invading Ukraine, senior officials said Sunday.And while they have seen no sign Beijing has done so yet, they underscored the US message this weekend that China should no...
US President Joe Biden said Thursday that Washington is nominating former Mastercard chief executive Ajay Banga to lead the World Bank, after its current chief David Malpass announced plans to step down early.The development lender has just started accepting candidate nominations in a process set to...
The World Bank (WB) said Wednesday it hopes to find a successor by early May to chief David Malpass, who has announced he will step down nearly a year early.The Washington-based development lender will begin accepting candidate nominations on Thursday, a process that will run until March 29. The ban...
President Joe Biden's administration proposed tough new restrictions on asylum seekers Tuesday, saying it wanted to head off a rush of migrants to the southern border when Covid-related controls are lifted.The new rules say migrants who arrive at the border and simply cross into the United State...
US space agency NASA and SpaceX on Tuesday pushed back by 24 hours the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket that is to carry four astronauts to the International Space Station.NASA's Stephen Bowen and Warren Hoburg, Russia's Andrey Fedyaev and Sultan al-Neyadi of the United Arab Emirates had been sch...
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President Joe Biden's surprise visit Monday morning to wartime Kyiv began in the dead of night at a military airport hangar outside Washington.At 4:00 am (0900 GMT) Sunday -- unbeknown to the world's media, the Washington political establishment or American voters -- the 80-year-old Democrat...
President Joe Biden will use a speech in Poland on Tuesday to send a message to Russia's Vladimir Putin that NATO will continue to support Ukraine's war effort for "as long as it takes," a spokesman said.Biden is leaving Monday for Warsaw on a brief trip to mark the first anniversa...
The IMF said Friday it has reached a staff-level agreement with Ukrainian authorities that opens doors to a full-fledged loan, which would also support the country's bid to join the European Union.Ukraine was seen to have "strong" performance under a four-month program with the Interna...
Six people were killed Friday in a shooting rampage in a rural area of the southern US state of Mississippi, local media reported.Police said a man who is now in custody shot a person at a store in the small town of Arkabutla, and then went to a nearby house and killed a woman, according to media in...
President Joe Biden on Thursday said he would talk to his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in the wake of the US Air Force shooting down what Washington says was a high-tech Chinese spy balloon earlier this month."I expect to be speaking with President Xi and... we're going to get to the bott...
Entertainment
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky joined Hollywood actor Sean Penn by video link on Thursday at the opening of the Berlinale, Europe's first major film festival of the year, calling for the entertainment world to maintain its "solidarity" with his besieged country.The 73rd annual ...
World Bank chief David Malpass announced Wednesday he would step down nearly a year early, ending a tenure at the head of the development lender that was clouded by questions over his climate stance.The veteran of Republican administrations in the United States was appointed to the role in 2019 when...
Joe Biden will complete a routine medical checkup on Thursday, a crucial step for the oldest-ever US president ahead of his expected fight for reelection in 2024.The White House has promised to release the report by the 80-year-old president's doctor, as it also did during his previous checkup i...
US President Joe Biden has called on Congress to act against America's epidemic of gun violence, one day after a new massacre on a Michigan university campus killed three people and injured five.As the leader of a nation plagued by daily shootings, Biden on Tuesday said he had promised the state...
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