The US will not conduct tests of satellite-killer missiles and urges all other countries to make the same commitment, Vice President Kamala Harris has announced after meeting with Space Force and Space Command officials in California. The head of Russia’s space agency was skeptical, however. “I am pleased to announce …
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US President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke by phone for just under an hour on Sunday, with Biden promising that the US would respond “swiftly and decisively” to any potential Russian military action. However, Biden didn’t stray from his promise not to put US troops in Ukraine. …
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Former US President Donald Trump has said he will pardon supporters who stormed the Capitol on January 6 last year if he wins the election in 2024. Addressing the crowd at a ‘Save America’ rally in Conroe, Texas late on Saturday, Trump promised to make sure they were treated fairly …
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President Moon Jae-in says meaningful peace with North Korea can’t be achieved without some kind of formal agreement. A peace deal between the two nations was not signed at the end of the Korean War in the 1950s. “I will not stop efforts to institutionalize sustainable peace,” Moon said in …
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In the post-summit communique, the leaders of the world’s largest economies called for “meaningful and effective” action to limit global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, Reuters reported shortly before the final document’s release. Though the 1.5-degree target is more ambitious than the two degrees goal set out …
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Some 34 companies joined the Tent Foundation’s Coalition for Afghan Refugees and have pledged to train, hire, and “help integrate” refugees into the American economy, the Tent Foundation announced on Tuesday. The companies include Facebook, Uber, UPS, Pfizer, Chobani, Trip Advisor, Western Union, Hilton, Gap, Mastercard and Amazon – the …
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To provide the necessary funding, the government is to increase National Insurance contributions to ensure that, from October 2023, no one will pay more than £86,000 ($118,650) for social care and those with assets less than £20,000 ($27,590) will have all their care costs covered. The proposal, unveiled in Parliament …
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“The US should lift sanctions on Iran and also should give guarantees that Trump’s mistakes will not happen again, then we can talk within the framework of JCPOA,” Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said on Monday, referring to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad …
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The companies’ executives are scheduled to speak before the US House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce on Tuesday. According to Pfizer Chief Business Officer John Young’s written testimony, the company will have 120 million doses of the vaccine available for shipment by the end of March and an …
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The petition, which asks the British government to commit not to impose the so-called immunity passports on the general public, crossed the threshold on Sunday. Public support grew from 10,000 over 20 days ago and surged since last week, when the petition had almost 37,000 signatures. Several similarly-themed petitions in …
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