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China's top diplomat has voiced hope for more stable relations with the United States after months of turbulence as he paid a rare trip to Washington to prepare a potential visit by President Xi Jinping.President Joe Biden has invited Xi to San Francisco next month to participate in the Asia-Pac...
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The overall number of suicides in the US military declined in 2022 compared to the year before, but the rate per 100,000 active duty troops rose slightly, according to data released Thursday."Fewer service members died by suicide in 2022 than in 2021," Elizabeth Foster -- the executive dir...
American and allied forces in Iraq and Syria have been attacked at least 16 times this month, the US Defense Department said Thursday, blaming "Iranian-backed militia groups."The latest attack took place in the autonomous Kurdistan region in northern Iraq on Thursday, causing "no casu...
The United States on Thursday announced a new $150 million (141 million euro) military assistance package for Ukraine that includes artillery and small-arms ammunition as well as anti-tank weapons.Washington is by far Kyiv's biggest donor of security aid, committing $43.9 billion since Russian f...
US President Joe Biden and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese toasted Wednesday their shared stand on Israel, Ukraine and China during a lavish state visit aimed at deepening their countries' century-old alliance."The alliance between Australia and the United States is an anchor to ...
US President Joe Biden will give a rare Oval Office speech Thursday to try to get Americans behind the defense of Israel and Ukraine as the crises facing Washington's allies pile up.The 80-year-old, who is seeking a second term in 2024, will address the nation less than 24 hours after returning ...
Any move by Israel to occupy the Gaza Strip again would be a "big mistake," US President Joe Biden said in an interview released on Sunday, as Israeli troops prepared for a ground invasion.Israel, seeking vengeance for an attack by Hamas on October 7, has declared war on the militant group...
A US landlord was charged with murder and hate crimes Sunday after allegedly stabbing a Muslim woman and six-year-old boy dozens of times in an attack that police linked to the war between Israel and Hamas.The child, who was stabbed 26 times, died at hospital, but the 32-year-old woman, believed to ...
The United States is sending a second aircraft carrier strike group to the eastern Mediterranean "to deter hostile actions against Israel or any efforts toward widening this war following Hamas's attack," Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said Saturday.The USS Eisenhower and its affili...
The United States and Qatar officials have agreed to prevent Iran from using a $6 billion humanitarian assistance fund, following militant group Hamas's surprise attack on Israel, a news report said Thursday.The money had been transferred to Iranian accounts in Qatar, in a US-Iran prisoner swap ...
An auto workers strike in the United States expanded Wednesday with 8,700 more employees walking off their jobs, said the United Automobile Workers (UAW) union, as a deal with major automakers remained elusive.The staff at Ford's Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville join some 25,000 other UAW memb...
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US President Joe Biden has been questioned as part of an investigation into the handling of classified documents found at his home and former private office, the White House said Monday.A furor over the secret papers dating from Biden's time as vice president prompted the US attorney general to ...
President Joe Biden ordered US ships and warplanes to move closer to Israel in a show of support on Sunday, while sending fresh military aid after attacks by the Palestinian militant group Hamas.The Pentagon said it was sending the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford and its accompanying warships to...
Former US president Donald Trump has offered to temporarily take up the role of speaker of the House of Representatives, US media reported Thursday.Republican Kevin McCarthy was axed this week as speaker in a brutal, historic rebellion by far-right members of his own party who accused him of a strin...
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The World Bank and International Monetary Fund will tackle the thorny issue of institutional reform at their upcoming annual meetings in Morocco next week.The two international financial institutions are looking to scale up and retool to pursue ambitious global climate goals, while continuing to sup...
Another 7,000 members of the biggest US automobile workers' union on Friday joined its already major strike against the country's "Big Three" Detroit car manufacturers.The latest walkouts leave a total of some 25,000 workers on strike in 21 states -- or around 17 percent of the Uni...
Israel and Saudi Arabia are moving towards the outline of a historic US-brokered deal to normalize relations after decades of hostility, the White House said on Friday.President Joe Biden is hoping to transform the Middle East -- and score an election-year diplomatic victory -- by securing recogniti...
US interest rates are rapidly approaching their highest level in the Federal Reserve's current battle against inflation, and may already be there, a senior Fed official said Friday.The US central bank has raised interest rates 11 times since March 2022 in a bid to tame inflation and bring it fir...
Donald Trump never misses a chance to remind voters that he was the one to appoint three justices to the US Supreme Court who voted to ditch the federal right to an abortion.But ask the 77-year-old what he thinks personally about abortion, and his position starts to shift, the self-declared "mo...
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has approved more than 100 recommendations aimed at curbing suicides in the US military, including through improving gun safety on bases, the Pentagon said Thursday.The recommendations follow reviews of 11 US military sites by the Suicide Prevention and Response Indepe...
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