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Democratic politician Joe Biden became the 46th President of the United States of America on January 20, 2021. He won more than 270 Electoral College votes in the November 3, 2020 election after securing the Democratic Party nomination to challenge Donald Trump for the position of US president. He previously served as the 47th vice-president of the United States under Barack Obama from 2009 to 2017, and was a United States Senator for Delaware from 1973 to 2009.
Note from 12 Republican senators threatens court’s chief prosecutor, family and associates with sanctions in bid to protect Israeli leaders.
Two Republican critics of Biden’s China policy have called for a strategy similar to Ronald Reagan’s approach to the Soviet Union. Despite building regional alliances, the Biden administration has shied away from resurrecting free trade negotiations with allies and partners in Asia.
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Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen, the prosecution’s final witness, said he pocketed most of a sum of money which was meant for a tech company that did work for Trump’s firm.
The United States said that arch-enemy Iran sought assistance over a helicopter crash that killed president Ebrahim Raisi, as Washington meanwhile offered condolences.
General Charles Q Brown, chairman of US Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the US would be able to bring trainers back in ‘once the conflict is over’.
Three former US foreign policy officials in Donald Trump’s administration met Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other public figures in Israel.
Israel, Hamas and the United States have blasted the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court after he applied for arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister, defence minister as well as three Hamas leaders.
Women and children among the dead in air strike on Nuseirat, a refugee camp in central Gaza.
Trump also promised to boost the Texas energy industry and vowed to implement history’s largest deportation of undocumented migrants.
Protesters focused their anger on President Joe Biden, and the violent crackdown on pro-Palestinian protest camps at universities across the US.
The dispatch of such a specialised China watcher to the embassy is part of the Biden administration’s efforts to reinforce intelligence gathering.
The US, Australia and India are among Israel’s long-time allies that have objected to the mounting casualties and escalation in the Gaza war.
The mainland’s e-commerce sector achieved a 12 per cent overall growth in the March quarter, according to data from JPMorgan.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to launch a full-scale ground operation in Rafah in a bid to dismantle the remaining battalions of Hamas.
Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur is at the centre of a Republican effort to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress, the Justice Department told lawmakers on Thursday.
Analysts say Beijing is preparing ‘for all types of situations’ in a trade war with the US that shows no sign of abating after six years, as the leading presidential candidates vow to turn up the heat.
The US and other countries, fearing mass casualties, have tried to convince Israel not to attack Rafah. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says it’s necessary to defeat the last of Hamas’s battalions.
Weak steel demand at home has encouraged China, the world’s biggest producer of the alloy, to offload its surplus stocks by offering competitive rates to Indian buyers, hurting Indian producers.
China made advances in AI, big data analytics and deepfakes; its initiatives already detected in elections in Australia, Canada and Taiwan, says Avril Haines.
Republican Trump replied he was ready to ‘rumble’, after being challenged by the Democratic incumbent.
US commonly sends representatives to the ceremony, but Lai’s ascension to Taiwanese presidency on May 20 comes during unusually tense relations with China.
Analysts discuss how Beijing could respond to Washington’s latest trade offensive, and how the impact could have repercussions beyond China’s borders.
Package including tank rounds, mortars and armoured tactical vehicles. It is the first arms shipment after US President Joe Biden warned he may withhold arms to Israel over concerns about a Rafah offensive in southern Gaza.
Senator Lindsey Graham ‘should have thought twice’ before his comments justifying the 1945 atomic bomb attacks on Japan, analysts note.
Palestinians observe May 15 as Nakba Day, Arabic for catastrophe, to commemorate the expulsion of 700,000 Arabs at the time of the establishment of Israel in 1948.
China should also ‘prepare for the worst’ but ‘do its best’ in response to further trade and tech frictions, Yang Jiemian tells summit in Hong Kong.
Tariffs would rise to 100 per cent from 27.5 per cent on China-made electric vehicles (EVs) and to 50 per cent on its semiconductors and solar cells.
Blinken’s unannounced trip to Kyiv comes just weeks after US Congress finally approved a US$61 billion financial aid package for Ukraine after months of political wrangling.
US imports of used cooking oil more than tripled in 2023, with more than half coming from China, according to the US International Trade Commission.
