US President Joe Biden has announced that he plans to request additional funding from Congress to develop a new Covid-19 vaccine, adding that it is likely everybody will be encouraged to take the new shot. Speaking to reporters on Friday, the president was asked if the White House was planning …
Read More »Man shot by FBI after making threats toward Biden
US federal agents have fatally shot a Utah man accused of making threats against President Joe Biden and other public figures, the FBI said, just hours before the commander in chief arrived in the state for an official visit. The shooting unfolded early on Wednesday morning as FBI agents attempted …
Read More »Biden offered Erdogan IMF support to ratify Sweden NATO bid – Hersh
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh claimed on Thursday that US President Joe Biden offered his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan more than $11 billion in IMF assistance to ratify Sweden’s bid to join the NATO bloc. In an article posted to his Substack account, Hersh wrote that he had been …
Read More »Biden to meet with Zelensky at NATO summit – media
US President Joe Biden will reportedly hold a one-on-one meeting with Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky during this week’s NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania as a demonstration of unity amid disagreements over the Western military alliance’s proposed security commitments to Kiev. The talks will be held on Wednesday on the sidelines …
Read More »US preparing ‘Israel-style’ security guarantees for Ukraine – Biden
The US is willing to offer Kiev a sort of security arrangement currently offered to Israel instead of membership in NATO, President Joe Biden told CNN in an interview previewed on Friday. “I don’t think it’s ready for membership in NATO,” Biden said of Ukraine. “I don’t think there is …
Read More »US officials caught off guard by Biden’s ‘Xi dictator’ remarks – NBC
Senior US officials were taken aback by US President Joe Biden’s remarks labeling Chinese President Xi Jinping a “dictator,” which came shortly after a landmark visit of Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Beijing, NBC reported on Wednesday, citing sources. On Tuesday, speaking at a fundraiser in California, the US …
Read More »Biden compares himself to Kissinger
US President Joe Biden has boasted about his vast foreign policy experience during a fundraiser for his 2024 re-election campaign, claiming that even veteran diplomat Henry Kissinger, who turned 100 in May, couldn’t surpass him. “I’m going to say something outrageous. I think I know as much about American foreign …
Read More »In Hiroshima, Biden promises Japan nuclear umbrella
The US will defend Japan with atomic weapons if necessary, the Japanese government announced on Thursday, citing the readout of a meeting between President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. The discussion took place in the city of Hiroshima, infamously destroyed by a US nuclear bomb in 1945. “President Biden reiterated the …
Read More »Biden lays out US chemical weapons plans
The US will destroy its last remaining chemical weapons by the fall of 2023, President Joe Biden announced on Friday, ahead of next week’s international arms control conference in The Hague. “We are on track to complete the destruction of our chemical weapons stockpile by this fall – a disarmament …
Read More »Ireland visit was to make sure ‘Brits don’t screw around’ – Biden
US President Joe Biden said at a Democratic Party event in New York on Wednesday that his four-day visit to Ireland last month was designed to make sure that “the Brits didn’t screw around” when it came to London’s commitments towards Northern Ireland and its relations with the leadership in …
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