WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration has told Congress it is proceeding with more than $23 billion in weapons sales to the United Arab Emirates, including advanced F-35 aircraft, armed drones and other equipment, congressional aides said on Tuesday.FILE PHOTO: A Lockheed Martin F-35 aircraft is seen at the ILA Air Show in…
2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Biden holds first Cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington 2/2 By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden plans to meet with a bipartisan group of U.S. House and Senate lawmakers on Monday on his proposed $2.3 trillion infrastructure and jobs plan, the White House…
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on tackling climate change prior to signing executive actions in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 27, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File PhotoWASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Sunday welcomed a settlement between South Korean battery makers LG Energy Solution and…
FILE PHOTO: French Junior Minister for European Affairs Clement Beaune speaks during a press conference to outline France’s strategy for the deployment of future COVID-19 vaccines, in Paris as the coronavirus disease outbreak continues in France, December 3, 2020. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/Pool/File PhotoPARIS (Reuters) – The European Union must shoot for a more ambitious COVID-19 recovery…
(Reuters) – Venezuela has paid $64 million, half of the required amount, for doses it is set to receive through the global COVAX program, Vice President Delcy Rodriguez announced Saturday on state television.“You know that the COVAX mechanism requires an advance – Venezuela has even doubled the required advance,” said Rodriguez, adding that the government…
NAIROBI (Reuters) -Djibouti’s President Ismail Omar Guelleh won a fifth five-year term on Saturday after an election boycotted by most of the opposition, securing over 97% of the votes cast, official data from the Interior Ministry on Saturday showed.Friday’s vote pitted only one challenger against the incumbent – relative newcomer Zakaria Ismail Farah. The Interior…
FILE PHOTO: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani attends a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of a session of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council In Yerevan, Armenia October 1, 2019. Sputnik/Alexei Druzhinin/Kremlin via REUTERS/File Photo(Reuters) – President Hassan Rouhani reiterated Iran’s commitment to nuclear non-proliferation on Saturday while overseeing the launch of advanced…
ANKARA (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will hold talks with his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul on Saturday, amid tensions between Kyiv and Moscow over a long-running conflict in Ukraine’s eastern Donbass region.Kyiv has raised the alarm over a buildup of Russian forces near the border between Ukraine and Russia, and over a…
2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: President Biden speaks about jobs and the economy from the White House in Washington 2/2 By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden asked Congress to sharply hike spending on climate change, cancer and underperforming schools, but his first budget wishlist on Friday drew howls of bipartisan concern…
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany is currently negotiating with Russia on an advance purchase agreement of its Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, Health Minister Jens Spahn said on Friday.Spahn told a news conference that the requirements were approval by the European Medicines Agency, as well as whether doses would be available within the next few months.“The crucial…