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The National Security Council is holding a series of inter-agency meetings this month regarding changes to the US’ “nuclear posture,” according to the Washington Post. Unnamed officials told the paper a new nuclear policy would be announced in early 2022. President Joe Biden is said to be in favor of …

“The president was not announcing any change in our policy and there is no change in our policy,” a White House spokesman told journalists on Friday, commenting on Biden’s earlier statements. The US president raised eyebrows on Thursday when he said Washington would support Taiwan if China attacked it. Speaking …

As a parent of schoolkids, I’m all up for pastoral care, a bit of safeguarding, wellbeing and welfare protection but when that oversteps the mark into teachers and administrators deceiving mums and dads about what’s going on with their children, I’m sorry, that’s too much. If that deception, however, also …

“We need to have people on the ground in Afghanistan, in addition to our humanitarian workers,” Borrell wrote in a blogpost on Sunday, without specifying who those “people” might be. “So, the question is not if we should have a minimal EU presence on which all member states agree, but …

The modern EU bureaucracy may seem light years away from the rapacious colonial powers of olden Europe, but geopolitics seemingly still reigns in Brussels, with the fight this time over influence in the troubled West African nation of Mali. With Mali’s military-ruled government struggling to quell a wave of jihadism, …

The United States’ migrant crisis shows no sign of abating. First, they come by the thousands, illegally, and once settled, the second wave arrives with family and friends. And so the cycle continues. Yes, America is the land of freedom and opportunity, but open borders are a recipe for disaster; …

In a statement on Tuesday, DOJ officials unveiled a string of new department-wide policies for federal officers, which were said to be among “the important steps the department is taking to improve law enforcement safety and accountability.” Under the new directive, federal law enforcement will be banned from using ‘chokeholds’ …

On Friday, the First District Court of Appeals in Tallahassee overruled Leon County Judge John Cooper’s decision to block the enforcement of the mandate ban, meaning schools that try to force children to wear masks can be punished by the governor. “Upon our review of the trial’s court’s final judgment …

In a brief opinion on Tuesday, the court determined that the federal government can not legally put an end to the immigration rule, first implemented under then-President Donald Trump in 2019, upholding a previous decision by a federal judge in Texas. Three liberal justices – Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and …

Nearly a week after the fall of Kabul to Taliban forces, the US and other Western countries are still evacuating their citizens from Hamid Karzai International Airport, which remains the only lifeline between Kabul and the West. After thousands of desperate Afghans stormed the runway and attempted to get aboard …