Biden and Trump head to border for high-stakes duel

Joe Biden and Donald Trump will both travel to the US-Mexico border on Thursday, locked in a high-stakes political duel on an issue that could ultimately decide the US presidential election. That border was crossed last year by 2.5 million…

Israel Gaza: Biden hopes for ceasefire by next week

US President Joe Biden says he hopes to have a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza by Monday. His comments come amid reports of some progress in indirect negotiations involving Israeli and Hamas officials. It would…

Trump got his own wife’s name wrong in a ‘gross sign’ of dementia

Former US President Donald Trump appeared to forget his own wife’s name in a blunder which one expert warned was a ‘gross sign’ of dementia. While speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Trump, 77, gave a standing ovation to…

Biden speaks on reported death of Alexei Navalny: “Putin is responsible”

President Joe Biden said Friday he was “not surprised” and “outraged” by reports of the death of Alexei Navalny, the longtime Russian opposition politician and critic of Vladimir Putin. Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service announced Navalny died in prison. The service…

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy in Germany to talk security

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is traveling to Berlin for a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Zelenskyy is also expected to take part in the Munich Security Conference starting at the end of this week, which will be attended by some 40 heads of state…

Biden threatens veto of US House’s standalone Israel aid bill

U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration said on Monday he would veto a standalone bill backed by House of Representatives Republicans that would provide aid to Israel, as it backs a broader bill providing assistance to Ukraine and Israel and providing…

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin released from hospital

United States Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has been released from hospital after spending two weeks there to treat complications from surgery for prostate cancer he kept secret from senior administration officials, including President Joe Biden. Austin, 70, was admitted to…

Biden officials were unaware US defence secretary was in hospital

Senior Biden administration leaders, top Pentagon officials and members of Congress were unaware for days that US defence secretary Lloyd Austin had been in hospital since Monday, US officials said, as questions swirled about his condition and the secrecy surrounding…

Biden administration bypasses Congress on weapons sales to Israel

The administration of United States President Joe Biden has once again bypassed Congress to greenlight an emergency weapons sale to Israel, which has only intensified and broadened its attacks on the Gaza Strip despite growing international outrage. US Secretary of…

Israel-Gaza: Israel says it has arrested hundreds of Hamas and Islamic Jihad members

Israel says it has arrested 200 members of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad groups in the past week and taken them into its territory for questioning. A statement said some of the suspects had been hiding among the civilian population…

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