カテゴリー: US politics
Justice department says Wynn lobbied the Trump administration for China to protect his business interests in MacauThe US Department of Justice on Tuesday sued Steve Wynn, the billionaire former casino mogul and senior Republican fund raiser, to compel …
State department cites risk of children and parents being separated as EU warns zero-Covid strategy eroding investor confidenceSee all our coronavirus coverageThe US has said it has asked all its non-essential staff and their family members at the Shan…
Biden’s Modi meeting does not seem to have produced oil dealBiden announces measures to crack down on ‘ghost guns’Judge may rule on disqualification of Marjorie Taylor GreeneRussia-Ukraine war – follow the latest newsSign up to receive First Thing – ou…
Arian Taherzadeh, 40, and Haider Ali, 35, accused of posing as homeland security officials and cultivating Secret Service accessOne of two American men arrested in Washington for posing as US federal security officials and cultivating access to the Sec…
Joint event had been planned ahead of Doha Forum that would have set process in motion to grant group diplomatic recognitionThe US was poised to set the Taliban on the path to diplomatic recognition before the plan was derailed by the Afghan rulers’ su…
Money would go toward humanitarian efforts for Afghan people and to US victims of terrorism, keeping it out of hands of TalibanJoe Biden signed an executive order on Friday releasing $7bn in frozen Afghan reserves to be split between humanitarian effor…
On Russia and Putin, the president said the quiet part loud. Re-engagement has been welcomed but the exit from Afghanistan was a disaster. Analysts see much to do to rebuild US credibilityJoe Biden marked his first anniversary in office with a gaffe ov…
A Taliban commander invited the media to inspect the site where America plotted killing raids and tortured prisonersThe cars, minibuses and armoured vehicles that the CIA used to run its shadow war in Afghanistan had been lined up and incinerated beyon…
North Korean leader said Biden offer of dialogue is ‘a facade’ and blamed the US for ‘hostile policy’Kim Jong-un has condemned a US offer of dialogue as a “facade”, state media reported, but said he had ordered officials to restore communication lines …
Analysis: Senators’ questions to military leadership a contest in sharing out responsibility for failuresThe deeply partisan US Congress is rarely a conducive place for national introspection and Tuesday’s Senate hearing on the Afghanistan withdrawal d…
General and other military leaders in heated cross-examinationMilley defends loyalty to country and rejects suggestion to quitThe withdrawal from Afghanistan and the evacuation of Kabul was “a logistical success but a strategic failure” the chairman of…
Joe Biden meets leaders of Australia, India and Japan in latest effort to cement US leadership in Asia US president Joe Biden and the leaders of Australia, India and Japan highlighted their Quad group’s role in safeguarding a stable, democratic Indo-Pa…
Analysis: Joe Biden has cleared the decks to focus on China. But how imminent is the danger?It may have been an inelegantly, even ineptly, executed pivot, gratuitously alienating key allies, but by leaving Afghanistan and forming the Australian, US and…
Analysis: Joe Biden has cleared the decks to focus on China. But how imminent is the danger?It may have been an inelegantly, even ineptly, executed pivot, gratuitously alienating key allies, but by leaving Afghanistan and forming the Australian, US and…
Analysis: the western alliance is the main victim – and China will win out unless US can soothe Paris’s angerFury in Paris at Australia’s decision to tear up plans to buy a French-built fleet of submarines is not only a row about a defence contract, co…