Iranian Vice-President Mohammad Mokhber, second right, visits the site of a tower on Friday at the 10-storey Metropol Building which collapsed on May 23 in Abadan, Iran, killing at least 34 people. Iran disrupted internet access to the outside world on Tuesday as angry demonstrators rallied over the tower collapse. …
Read More »Joe Biden lays wreath at shrine in Texas school massacre town
Biden and his wife Jill Biden visited a memorial outside the school in Uvalde where 19 children and two teachers were murdered by a teenage gunman on May 24. Source link
Read More »World leaders in UAE to pay respects after death of Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed
France’s President Emmanuel Macron, centre, and Mauritania’s President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani, right, offer their condolences to Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, President of the UAE and Ruler of Abu Dhabi, at Mushrif Palace in Abu Dhabi on May 15. Photo: Ministry of Presidential Affairs – Abu Dhabi / AFP Source …
Read More »US Vice-President Kamala Harris tests positive for Covid-19
Biden is not considered a ‘close contact’; Harris is not exhibiting symptoms, and will isolate at home and work remotely. Source link
Read More »US VP Kamala Harris, daughter of a Jamaican immigrant, meets island’s leader
US Vice-President Kamala Harris, whose father emigrated from Jamaica, met the island nation’s prime minister on Wednesday at the White House, marking another historic moment for the first Black and Asian-American vice-president. The meeting marked the first time since 1995 that a Jamaican leader has visited the White House. Harris, …
Read More »Joe Biden budget to trim US$1 trillion from deficits over next decade
President Joe Biden intends to propose a spending plan for the 2023 budget year that would cut projected deficits by more than US$1 trillion over the next decade and propose a minimum tax on billionaires, according to a fact sheet released on Saturday by the White House budget office.In his …
Read More »Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson set to make US supreme court history
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will make history Monday as she goes before a Senate panel considering her nomination to be the first black woman on the US Supreme Court.Barring a major mishap, the Democrats’ narrow control of the Senate means confirmation is all but assured. Although she will not shift …
Read More »US vice-president’s husband evacuated after bomb threat at high school
US Secret Service agents rushed second gentleman Doug Emhoff to safety on Tuesday, while students and administrators evacuated after a bomb threat was reported at a Washington school celebrating a Black History Month event, Emhoff’s aides and school authorities said.Emhoff, the husband of US Vice-President Kamala Harris, was at Dunbar …
Read More »US, Taiwanese vice-presidents have ‘brief exchange’ in Honduras
A brief conversation between the US and Taiwanese vice-presidents at the inauguration of the new Honduran president is likely to add to Beijing’s tensions with Washington.US vice-president Kamala Harris said she spoke with her Taiwanese counterpart William Lai about their shared interest in Central America and the US government’s “root …
Read More »Honduras inaugurates first woman president amid questions over Taiwan ties
Xiomara Castro was sworn in as Honduras’ first woman president on Thursday, with US Vice-President Kamala Harris in attendance, as her government faces tests over a sharply divided Congress, rising debt and relations with China.Castro, flanked by her husband, former President Manuel Zelaya, and their children, was sworn in at …
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