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Biden Still Wants Summit With Putin Despite Tensions over Ukraine
US President Joe Biden said he still wants to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin 'despite Russia's troop build-up near Ukraine'. 'It does not impact my desire to have a one-on-one meeting and if you notice, he had more troops before, he’s withdrawn troops. There are still troops amassed but significantly less than a month ago,' Biden told reporters at the White House on Friday.He added that he expects to meet ...
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19 dead, 846 injured in days-long Colombia protests
TEHRAN, May 04 (MNA) – The office of Colombia's human rights ombudsman said 18 civilians and a police officer died in violence during the protests that began throughout the country on April 28, while 846 people, including 306 civilians, were injured.
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COVAX Gets Boost from Moderna Deal, Sweden’s Donation of COVID-19 Vaccines
Moderna will supply 34 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine this year and Sweden donated 1 million AstraZeneca shots to the global COVAX program, a small boost as it struggles to get stocks to inoculate the world's poorest people. The advance purchase contract agreed with Moderna is for up to 500 million doses, but the roll out will only start in the fourth quarter, with 34 million doses available this year, the ...
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Clinton Warns of “Huge Consequences” over Biden’s Afghanistan Drawdown Plan
Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has warned of 'huge consequences' over Joe Biden administration's decision to withdraw American troops from war-ravaged Afghanistan. In an interview with CNN, Clinton said there are 'two huge consequences,' that Washington should worry about: potential collapse of Kabul and Taliban's takeover of the country, and the resumption of global terrorist activities. 'Probably with a resumption of civil war in certain parts of the country, but ...
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North Korea Says Biden Blundered by Calling Its Self-defense Efforts ‘Serious Threats’
After US President Joe Biden's speech to Congress, Pyongyang said the US will face “a very grave situation” because its leader “made a big blunder.” “His statement clearly reflects his intent to keep enforcing the hostile policy toward the DPRK [Democratic People’s Republic of Korea] as it had been done by the US for over half a century,” Kwon Jong-gun, North Korean Foreign Ministry director general for US affairs, said on Sunday. ...
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