Joe Biden
Biden asks for early Macron talks as allies try to smooth tensions
The United States and Britain sought Sunday to smooth tensions with Paris over a new security pact with Australia, with US president Joe Biden requesting early talks with his French counterpart ...
Biden asks world leaders to cut methane in climate fight
Biden made the remarks during a virtual meeting of the Major Economies Forum (MEF), a follow-up to an Earth Day meeting he hosted in April to unveil new US greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets ...
AUKUS
France recalls ambassadors to Australia, US in escalating row
The row has for now at least put on hold hopes of a post-Trump renaissance in Paris-Washington relations under Biden and his Secretary of State Antony Blinken, a fluent French speaker who was ...
Family of US hostage held by Taliban calls for envoy's firing
The family of Mark Frerichs on Monday urged US president Joe Biden to fire his chief Afghanistan peace negotiator, charging that the envoy has done little to win the release of the last American ...
Blinken asks Pakistan to 'line up' in pressuring Taliban
US secretary of state Antony Blinken called Monday on Pakistan to deny legitimacy to the Taliban unless they meet international demands, acknowledging concerns that Islamabad has supported militants ...
Calls for unity as divided US marks 20th anniversary of 9/11
World leaders sent messages of solidarity, saying the attackers had failed to destroy Western values
Biden, Xi talk to avoid US-China conflict
US president Joe Biden and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping talked for the first time in seven months Thursday, with both leaders urging a path away from conflict but holding ground on fierce ...
Afghanistan
Taliban legitimacy will have to be ‘earned’: Blinken
Blinken and Maas both criticised the caretaker government announced in Afghanistan on Tuesday, which has no women or non-Taliban members
Ukraine president seeks Biden support against Russia after Afghan war
Ukraine's leader will ask president Joe Biden on Wednesday for firm US support on military modernisation, worried about rising Russian pressure days after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan
Afghanistan exit marks the end of US nation-building: Biden
The Taliban now control more territory than when they last ruled before being ousted in 2001 at the start of America’s longest war, which took the lives of nearly 2,500 US troops and an estimated ...
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