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- Israeli firm’s spyware linked to attacks on websites in UK and Middle East
- Prince Andrew’s £1.5m loan paid off by firms linked to Tory donor – report
- At least three killed in suicide bomb attacks in Ugandan capital, Kampala
- US reportedly plans diplomatic boycott China 2022 Winter Olympics
- Liverpool bomb suspect sought help from MP over asylum claim
- Soaring pollution has Delhi considering full weekend lockdown
- Germany suspends approval for Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline
- Decathlon stops canoe sales in northern France to curb migrant crossings
- Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi charged with election fraud and ‘lawless actions’
- ‘Narco queen’: wife of cartel leader ‘El Mencho’ arrested in Mexico
- Russia admits to anti-satellite missile test but denies ‘dangerous behavior’
- Germany set to tighten rules for unvaccinated as Covid cases rise
- Coronavirus live: Germany set to tighten rules for unvaccinated; Ireland brings in midnight curfew
- Covid now a pandemic of poor nations, WHO envoy tells UK MPs
- ‘We are not in the mood for campaigning’: Covid threatens to derail independence vote in New Caledonia
- ‘It’s the biggest open secret out there’: the double lives of white-collar workers with two jobs
- Questions persist over how Prince Andrew funded luxury lifestyle
- 3D-printed steak, anyone? I taste test this ‘gamechanging’ meat mimic | Zoe Williams
- Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk charged again with ‘insulting Turkishness’
- ‘She has invaded all our lives’ – Tong Yang-tze, the artist making calligraphy cool
- ‘A tipping point’: how poor forestry fuels floods and fires in western Canada
- A £300 monsoon-busting home: the Bangladeshi architect fighting extreme weather
- Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar to run for president
- Biden battles political headwinds as he hits the road to sell his agenda – live
- Australia news live update: Daniel Andrews ‘won’t be deterred’ by Victoria protests; NT on edge over Covid cases; flood warnings for NSW
- Parliament to vote on bill to ban child marriage in England and Wales
- Mexican environmental campaigner missing after attack on villagers
- ‘If I can get a plane into the sky, I can do anything’: female Afghan pilot refuses to be grounded
- Biden-Xi summit highlights tensions – and desire for cooperation
- China urges developed countries to take the lead in cutting out coal
- Fortress EU is beating Belarus, with refugees as pawns in cruel game
- Poland-Belarus border crisis: water cannon and teargas fired at migrants – video report
- White House defends Kamala Harris after reports suggest she is struggling in role – video
- Biden-Xi virtual summit: Biden says US and China must 'not veer into conflict' – video
| Israeli firm’s spyware linked to attacks on websites in UK and Middle East Posted: 16 Nov 2021 08:15 AM PST Canada-based researchers say new evidence suggests Candiru's software used to target critics of autocratic regimes Researchers have found new evidence that suggests spyware made by an Israeli company that was recently blacklisted in the US has been used to target critics of Saudi Arabia and other autocratic regimes, including some readers of a London-based news website. A report by Montreal-based researchers from Slovakian company Eset, an internet security firm, found links between attacks against high-profile websites in the Middle East and UK, and the Israeli company Candiru, which has been called Israel's "most mysterious cyberwarfare company". Continue reading... |
| Prince Andrew’s £1.5m loan paid off by firms linked to Tory donor – report Posted: 16 Nov 2021 01:19 PM PST Duke of York and multimillionaire David Rowland have had a close relationship for some years Prince Andrew took out a £1.5m personal loan that was subsequently paid off by companies connected to David Rowland, a multimillionaire Conservative donor and financier, it has been claimed. Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday that the Duke of York took out the loan with the Luxembourg-based private bank Banque Havilland in December 2017, and it was paid off 11 days later by companies associated with Rowland, the bank's founder. Continue reading... |
| At least three killed in suicide bomb attacks in Ugandan capital, Kampala Posted: 16 Nov 2021 05:25 AM PST Two explosions within minutes in attack blamed on Allied Democratic Forces extremist group Two explosions rocked Uganda's capital, Kampala, early on Tuesday, killing at least three civilians in what police described as a coordinated attack by extremists. Three suicide bombers also died in the blasts, police said. The explosions caused chaos in Kampala as terrified residents fled the city's centre. Continue reading... |
| US reportedly plans diplomatic boycott China 2022 Winter Olympics Posted: 16 Nov 2021 10:54 AM PST Biden administration may not send official delegation to Beijing 2022, in protest at human rights abuses The US is going to stage a diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympics in China and will not send an official delegation in protest against human rights abuses, according to a report on Tuesday. The report comes the day after a virtual summit between Joe Biden and Xi Jinping, in which multiple policy issues were raised but the Olympics were not mentioned, despite some earlier reports that Xi would deliver an invitation to the games. Continue reading... |
| Liverpool bomb suspect sought help from MP over asylum claim Posted: 16 Nov 2021 11:58 AM PST Emad al-Swealmeen contacted office of Labour's Paula Barker last year about Home Office application The suspected Liverpool bomber sought help from his local MP as he tried to secure leave to remain in the UK from the Home office, the Guardian understands. Emad al-Swealmeen, also known as Enzo Almeni, contacted the office of Paula Barker, the Labour MP for Wavertree, last year. The Home Office is thought to have rejected his latest claim of asylum in December 2020. Continue reading... |
| Soaring pollution has Delhi considering full weekend lockdown Posted: 16 Nov 2021 05:40 AM PST Thick smog envelops Indian capital with pollution levels 20 times higher than deemed healthy by WHO India's capital, Delhi, and several surrounding states have shut schools, imposed work-from-home orders and a full weekend lockdown of the city is being contemplated in an attempt to tackle the deadly levels of pollution that have yet again enveloped the region. Over the past weeks, in what has become a dreaded seasonal occurrence, Delhi has suffered pollution levels 20 times higher than the levels deemed healthy by the World Health Organization and a thick brown smog settled over the city. Continue reading... |
| Germany suspends approval for Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline Posted: 16 Nov 2021 07:12 AM PST Move follows mounting political pressure to scrap project in setback to Kremlin-backed project Germany has suspended its approval process for the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline which would double its reliance on Russian gas following growing geopolitical pressure to scrap the project. Energy markets across Europe surged after the German energy regulator suspended its certification process, in a big setback to Kremlin-backed Gazprom's plans to extend Russian gas dominance via a new pipeline across the Baltic Sea. Continue reading... |
| Decathlon stops canoe sales in northern France to curb migrant crossings Posted: 16 Nov 2021 02:38 PM PST Sport retailer is concerned about people risking their lives using its products to try to reach England The sport equipment retailer Decathlon will no longer sell canoes in the north of France to prevent migrants from attempting to use them to cross to England. Tuesday's announcement came as hundreds of people crossed the Channel by boat in what was a busy day for UK search and rescue forces. There were multiple landings along the Kent coastline, including about 60 people who landed at Dungeness shortly before 4pm. Continue reading... |
| Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi charged with election fraud and ‘lawless actions’ Posted: 16 Nov 2021 09:49 AM PST Military junta adds to series of legal cases against the ousted leader, state media reports Myanmar's military junta has charged Aung San Suu Kyi with "election fraud and lawless actions", according to state media, adding to a series of legal cases facing the ousted leader. Military-controlled media reported on Tuesday that the Union Election Commission had prosecuted 16 people, including Aung San Suu Kyi and President U Win Myint, in relation to alleged fraud during the 2020 general election. Aung San Suu Kyi's party, National League for Democracy (NLD), won the vote by a landslide – a result the military has refused to accept. Continue reading... |
| ‘Narco queen’: wife of cartel leader ‘El Mencho’ arrested in Mexico Posted: 16 Nov 2021 12:01 PM PST Rosalinda González Valencia accused of involvement in 'illicit financial operation' of Jalisco New Generation cartel Mexico's military have arrested the wife of the Mexican drug lord "El Mencho", leader of the ultra-violent Jalisco New Generation cartel (CJNG). Rosalinda González Valencia was detained in the municipality of Zapopan in the western Jalisco state in a "a significant blow to the financial structure of organized crime in the state", the defense ministry said in a statement on Tuesday. Continue reading... |
| Russia admits to anti-satellite missile test but denies ‘dangerous behavior’ Posted: 16 Nov 2021 12:18 PM PST US officials accuse Moscow of 'irresponsible' behavior after it conducts test that threatened lives of astronauts onboard the ISS Russia has admitted to destroying one of its satellites during a missile test but rejected US accusations that it had endangered the International Space Station. US officials on Monday accused Moscow of "dangerous and irresponsible behavior" after it conducted an anti-satellite weapons test that threatened the lives of the seven astronauts on board the ISS. Continue reading... |
| Germany set to tighten rules for unvaccinated as Covid cases rise Posted: 16 Nov 2021 09:18 AM PST State of Saxony latest to introduce 2G rules, with national infection rate at more than double a year ago Germany is paving the way for the introduction of tighter restrictions on people who have so far chosen not to be vaccinated against Covid-19, in an effort to control its highest infection levels since the pandemic began. On Tuesday the country's disease control agency, the Robert Koch Institute, recorded a seven-day incidence rate of 312 cases per 100,000 people, with several areas at more than 1,000. A year ago, before the vaccine was introduced, the rate stood at 139. There were 265 deaths reported on Tuesday, much fewer than the pre-vaccine peak. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus live: Germany set to tighten rules for unvaccinated; Ireland brings in midnight curfew Posted: 16 Nov 2021 03:46 PM PST Germany set to follow Austria in effort to fight fourth wave; Irish restrictions include advice to work from home to fight rising hospitalisations
Our economics editor Larry Elliott has written his analysis this morning on how the UK economy is beginning to emerge from Covid, but old problems remain. He concludes: The economy as a whole is now starting to go post-Covid. The inflation figures due out on Wednesday will still show the impact of the virus on global energy prices and on supply chains but in other respects it is as if the past 18 months never happened. There are two sides to that. The good news is that the labour market has emerged relatively unscathed. The bad news is that the problems of February 2020 – low investment, low productivity, weak underlying growth – are problems that remain to be tackled in November 2021. Continue reading... |
| Covid now a pandemic of poor nations, WHO envoy tells UK MPs Posted: 16 Nov 2021 08:02 AM PST Rich counties taking risk by 'hoovering up' boosters, all-party group on coronavirus told Covid is now a pandemic of poor nations, a leading global expert has told a cross-party group of MPs, adding that governments that are attempting to vaccinate their way out of the pandemic are taking a huge risk. Dr David Nabarro, the World Health Organization's special envoy on Covid, told the all-party group on coronavirus that the world was still deep in the pandemic, with 5,413 reported deaths in the past 24 hours alone. "This is a disease now fundamentally of poor people and poor nations," he added. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 16 Nov 2021 09:00 AM PST Kanak leaders have urged a postponement of the vote, saying that the priority for indigenous people once lockdown lifts will be mourning customs, not campaigning The credibility of New Caledonia's third and final independence referendum has been questioned after indigenous leaders warned that participation could be adversely affected by the Covid pandemic. The French government has announced that the referendum will proceed as planned in December after the coronavirus crisis eased. Continue reading... |
| ‘It’s the biggest open secret out there’: the double lives of white-collar workers with two jobs Posted: 16 Nov 2021 02:00 AM PST Remote working has made it easier than ever for staff to moonlight. But how do they cope with clashing meetings and two bosses? And can the rewards be worth the lies? Second jobs can be incredibly lucrative – just ask any of the MPs who gained at least £6m collectively from their side gigs since the start of the pandemic. But it's not only MPs benefiting from second jobs: ordinary white-collar workers have been getting in on the act. And these workers aren't just taking on positions that might require a couple of days' work a month. Instead, they are juggling several traditional full-time jobs, and keeping each one a secret from their other employers – leading, in effect, multiple lives Among them is Jamie, a 25-year-old based in the UK. Over lockdown, Jamie found himself spending a significant amount of each working day playing video games. His role as a software engineer is undemanding and barely monitored by his company. It allowed him to live comfortably, but he was on what he considered a modest salary. Continue reading... |
| Questions persist over how Prince Andrew funded luxury lifestyle Posted: 16 Nov 2021 01:20 PM PST Analysis: friendship with David Rowland has often featured in speculation over how duke has managed to get by With little in the way of visible support, questions over how the Duke of York has been able to fund his lifestyle have rarely been answered. In the past he has appeared to live the jetset life of a multimillionaire, with holidays aboard luxury yachts, regular golfing sojourns and ski trips to exclusive resorts. Yet the Queen's second son's only publicly known income was the £249,000 a year he received as an allowance to fund his Buckingham Palace office while undertaking royal duties. The allowance was paid by the Queen from the private income she received from the Duchy of Lancaster estate. In addition to this allowance, Andrew would also have a small pension from his time serving with the Royal Navy, a job he left in 2001. Continue reading... |
| 3D-printed steak, anyone? I taste test this ‘gamechanging’ meat mimic | Zoe Williams Posted: 16 Nov 2021 05:41 AM PST Marco Pierre White is championing Redefine Meat's products, but do they live up to the hype? Across four major cities – London, Amsterdam, Berlin and Tel Aviv – a new meat was born, containing precisely no animal. The London champion of the company, Redefine Meat, is the celebrity chef Marco Pierre White. At Mr White's in Leicester Square, chefs, investors and barbecue and burger connoisseurs – as well as former winners of MasterChef – gathered to taste it. The tone of the event was set by the offering of a pipette of "blood" – "Doesn't it taste like blood, though?" asked an excited waiter. Well, yes. But memo from the world of carnivore: blood is more something we put up with than something we actively want to drink. Continue reading... |
| Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk charged again with ‘insulting Turkishness’ Posted: 16 Nov 2021 08:56 AM PST Case based on his new novel Nights of the Plague, initially dismissed in April, has been reopened after an appeal Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk is being investigated by the Turkish state for "insulting" the founder of modern Turkey and ridiculing the Turkish flag in his new novel Nights of Plague. Pamuk, who denies the accusations, published the book in Turkey in March. Set on a fictional Ottoman island during an outbreak of the bubonic plague in the early 1900s, the first complaint against it came in April, when a lawyer accused Pamuk of inciting "hatred and animosity" by insulting Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and ridiculing the flag of Turkey in the work. An Istanbul court decided not to take the claim forward due to lack of evidence, but the lawyer who brought the case, Tarcan Ülük, appealed against the decision and the investigation has now been reopened. Continue reading... |
| ‘She has invaded all our lives’ – Tong Yang-tze, the artist making calligraphy cool Posted: 16 Nov 2021 07:18 AM PST From railway signs to perfume bottles to Taiwan's official passport stamp, the artist is giving ancient lettering a modern twist. How will her work go down at Hong Kong's controversial new M+ museum? The most striking thing about Tong Yang-tze, sitting inside her modest Taipei studio residence, is her confidence, and the sense that she's had it all along. Now in her late 70s and considered one of Taiwan's foremost calligraphers and artists, Tong grins and jokes over cups of green tea and local sweets, belying her fame and cultural significance. "Of course I'm good!" she laughs at one point, recalling an offer early in her career from her former university to teach. "I said no, I don't want a teaching job. At that time, everybody needed a job but I wanted to be an artist. No regrets." Last week Tong's calligraphy with a modern art twist greeted visitors to the hotly anticipated M+ museum in Hong Kong, an ambitious decade-long project to create what has been dubbed Asia's Tate Modern. The 33-gallery space, in a harbourside building designed by "starchitects" Herzog & de Meuron in collaboration with TFP Farrells and Arup, opened last week. Continue reading... |
| ‘A tipping point’: how poor forestry fuels floods and fires in western Canada Posted: 16 Nov 2021 11:26 AM PST Clearcutting worsens heavy rain events but selective logging is needed to limit wildfire threat, experts say A devastating string of floods and landslides have shocked residents in British Columbia, a west Canadian province increasingly forced to grapple with the effects of the climate crisis. As images of the devastation circulate on social media, experts warn that management of the province's forests will be critical to blunting the effects of future storms. "It's just this awful feeling of being right – and not wanting to be right. This is exactly what the best available science has predicted for years," said Peter Wood, author of a recent report on the link between clearcut logging and community safety from the Sierra Club BC. "We know the outcome when you log steep slopes … You reach sort of a tipping point, where the forest is no longer able to provide that moderating service of controlling flow of water." Continue reading... |
| A £300 monsoon-busting home: the Bangladeshi architect fighting extreme weather Posted: 16 Nov 2021 05:47 AM PST From a mosque that breathes to innovative bamboo houses, Marina Tabassum has won the prestigious Soane medal for her humanitarian buildings For the people of coastal Bangladesh, the monsoon can bring untold torment – and, occasionally, unexpected joy. Every year from June to October, in the Ganges delta region where the country's three major rivers converge, the waterways swell and riverbanks burst, causing catastrophic flooding. The torrential rainfall is joined by heavy glacial runoff from the Himalayas, exacerbated in recent years by global heating. Homes and livelihoods are lost overnight. But the meltwater also brings cascades of sediment that, a few months later, leave unpredictable gifts – new strips of land, known as "chars", rising from the riverbed.
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| Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar to run for president Posted: 16 Nov 2021 08:19 AM PST Head of self-styled Libyan National Army to stand in country's first presidential elections in December A Libyan warlord who led a 14-month assault on the capital and once said the country was not ready for democracy has announced his candidacy in its first presidential elections at the end of next month Khalifa Haftar, the head of the self-styled Libyan National Army, which fought against its internationally recognised government in the 2014-20 civil war, declared he wanted to bring the Libyan people "glory, progress and prosperity" as he joined a contest that also includes the son of Libya's former dictator, Muammar Gaddafi, among its hopefuls. Continue reading... |
| Biden battles political headwinds as he hits the road to sell his agenda – live Posted: 16 Nov 2021 03:41 PM PST The president, beset by sagging poll numbers, will visit New Hampshire on the first leg of a tour promoting bipartisan legislation
California representative Jackie Speier announced that she will not be seeking reelection, adding to the list of Democrats who will not be running for reelection ahead of a shaky 2022 midterm election cycle. Speier, 71, who has served seven terms as congresswoman for the San Francisco Bay Area, announced her retirement in a video message published to Twitter, saying that while it was an "extraordinary privilege" to serve in public office, she is ready to move on. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 16 Nov 2021 03:43 PM PST Victorian premier says focus should be on those who have been vaccinated rather than protests on steps of parliament; flood waters expected to peak in NSW town of Forbes; Victoria records 996 Covid cases and nine deaths; 231 cases and no deaths in NSW; more than 12,000 people on waiting list to enter Queensland; authorities concerned as cases spread in remote Indigenous community. Follow all the day's news live
The average Australian is working 1.5 hours more unpaid overtime each week since the start of the Covid pandemic, according to a new survey. The poll, which used a nationally representative sample, found the average employed Australian is working 6.13 hours unpaid each week in 2021, up from 5.25 hours in 2020 and 4.62 hours in 2019. Before I went to sleep last night, family members were still quite anxious ... We've got five-year-old twins who have been infected with Covid. It is a very serious time ... Most of them are double-vaxxed, which I was very pleased to hear ... Some had already gone to try and get a vaccination, and this is where it's been quite despairing. These vaccinations should've occurred earlier this year ... First Nations media organisations started receiving funding in September. That's way too slow, way too late. The damage had already set in. Continue reading... |
| Parliament to vote on bill to ban child marriage in England and Wales Posted: 16 Nov 2021 08:35 AM PST Marriage of under-18s associated with risk of domestic, sexual and 'honour'-based violence, say MPs, who will vote on Friday A bill that would ban child marriage in England and Wales will be presented to parliament for its second reading this week and has been welcomed by campaigners as a "huge stride" forward. Currently, marriage and civil partnerships are legal at 16 and 17 with parental consent. This is not just out of step with international legislation but also a loophole that is "more often used as a mechanism for abuse", according to Pauline Latham, MP, who will present her bill on Friday. Continue reading... |
| Mexican environmental campaigner missing after attack on villagers Posted: 16 Nov 2021 01:15 AM PST Irma Galindo Barrios, a member of the Mixtec people, was defending indigenous lands from illegal logging A Mexican environmental campaigner has been declared missing barely a week after a savage attack on indigenous villagers displaced from the lands she was defending against illegal logging. Irma Galindo Barrios, a member of the indigenous Mixtec (ñuù savi) people who worked to protect forests in southern Oaxaca state, was last heard from on 27 October. She was scheduled to attend a virtual meeting so she could join a state mechanism for protecting journalists and defenders, but did not attend, according to Rosi Bustamante, a US-based activist who had been in close contact with Galindo. Continue reading... |
| ‘If I can get a plane into the sky, I can do anything’: female Afghan pilot refuses to be grounded Posted: 16 Nov 2021 12:00 AM PST Months after Mohadese Mirzaee became Afghanistan's first female commercial airline pilot, the Taliban took Kabul. Now a refugee in Bulgaria, she is determined to fly again Sitting alone in her small flat in Bulgaria, Mohadese Mirzaee contemplates the future. Three months ago, she left behind her family, and her dream job, in Afghanistan. At 23, Mirzaee was the country's first female commercial airline pilot. "Today, I don't know where to go, but I'm not giving up. I've started applying for pilot jobs anywhere because I know I need to get back to flying," she says by phone from the capital, Sofia. Continue reading... |
| Biden-Xi summit highlights tensions – and desire for cooperation Posted: 16 Nov 2021 07:05 AM PST Analysis: while depth of division remains clear, leaders showed willingness to move in positive direction The much-awaited meeting between Joe Biden and Xi Jinping achieved its admittedly low expectations when the two finally met and showed a willingness to move the bilateral relationship in a positive direction. Progress began to show soon after the meeting, for example on journalist visas. But the two sides also provided a list of existing grievances following the three-and-a-half-hour talks. The US said it raised its concerns over China's human rights record, its "unfair trade and economic practices", and its behaviour in the South China Sea. Continue reading... |
| China urges developed countries to take the lead in cutting out coal Posted: 15 Nov 2021 08:53 AM PST After dilution of Cop26 wording, China says developing nations cannot make green transition without support As Cop26 drew to a close over the weekend, Chinese media highlighted Beijing's contribution over the last fortnight in Glasgow. "The Chinese delegation took a constructive attitude, actively communicated and negotiated with all parties," said CCTV's main evening news bulletin on Sunday. "[It] provided China's wisdom and China's solution …" But when China and India chose the last few hours of negotiations to push for the language on coal to be diluted from "phase out" to "phase down", both countries came under nearly immediate fire from commentators. Cop president Alok Sharma later urged both countries to "explain themselves and what they did to the most climate-vulnerable countries in the world". Continue reading... |
| Fortress EU is beating Belarus, with refugees as pawns in cruel game Posted: 15 Nov 2021 08:50 AM PST Analysis: Lukashenko's strategy seems to have backfired, with a united European Union placing sanctions against his regime There was chaos at the border. Thousands of Middle Eastern refugees and migrants had massed at the crossing point to the European Union, hoping for a better life. Many had been taken to the barbed-wire fence on state-funded buses, after the authoritarian leader made good on years-long threats "to open the gates to Europe". But when people arrived, the hope of a better life collided with police teargas and stun grenades. This was not a scene from the Polish-Belarus border this week, but Greece's land border with Turkey less than two years ago. Continue reading... |
| Poland-Belarus border crisis: water cannon and teargas fired at migrants – video report Posted: 16 Nov 2021 06:24 AM PST Polish riot police on the country's border with Belarus have fired water cannon and teargas at people forcibly attempting to cross into the European Union. Dozens of men threw rocks and approached a fence near the border crossing at the Polish town of Kuźnica. The clashes come a day after EU governments approved sanctions against the Belarusian leader, Alexander Lukashenko, for allegedly engineering the crisis by allowing thousands of asylum seekers from the Middle East to travel through Belarus to the border with Poland Continue reading... |
| White House defends Kamala Harris after reports suggest she is struggling in role – video Posted: 15 Nov 2021 11:27 PM PST The White House press secretary, Jen Psaki, disputed recent media reports that the US vice president, Kamala Harris, is struggling with her role in Joe Biden's administration. 'She's a key partner,' Psaki said. 'She's a bold leader, and she is somebody who has taken on incredibly important assignments,' including immigration and voting rights. With questions being raised about the president's willingness to seek a second term, speculation is mounting over Harris's chances in a contest for the next Democratic nomination. 'I don't have any predictions of whether she will run, when she will run,' Psaki added. 'I will leave that to her, but I can tell you that there's been a lot of reports out there and they don't reflect his view or our experience with the vice president' Continue reading... |
| Biden-Xi virtual summit: Biden says US and China must 'not veer into conflict' – video Posted: 15 Nov 2021 07:14 PM PST US president Joe Biden has told Chinese leader Xi Jinping that he hoped to have a candid conversation about human rights and security issues as the two began a meeting meant to lower tensions between the two global superpowers. Biden added that the two leaders must make sure their relations do not veer into open conflict, including by installing 'common sense' guardrails. Biden spoke with Xi over a video conference as the two leaders engaged in their most extensive talks since Biden became president in January. Xi said the two sides must increase communication and cooperation to solve the many challenges they face. Continue reading... |
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