Saturday, April 20, 2024

Topic: Joe Biden

Joe Biden: Report card on first year in office

Clodagh Harrington, De Montfort University and Alex Waddan, University of Leicester When Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th US president in January 2021,...

World leaders, corporations at COP26, take major step to restore and protect forests

Fittingly, the COP26 plenary on Tuesday was lit up in green, and the room was filled with the sounds of chirping birds and rustling leaves coming...

Taliban warns US on plans to extend withdrawal deadline

Taliban leaders on Monday said they will not accept any effort by the Biden administration to extend its August 31 deadline for the U.S. withdrawal...

First Somalia airstrike of Biden era: Ilhan Omar demands answers

Rep. Ilhan Omar—the first Somali-American elected to Congress and an outspoken critic of U.S. militarism—on Friday sent a letter to President Joe Biden questioning his rationale behind its first drone strike in Somalia earlier this week, and seeking to hold his administration accountable for a promise it made to compensate families of civilians killed by American airstrikes.

Biden joins other presidents to undercount civilians killed in US wars

Human rights defenders on Wednesday accused the Biden administration of joining its predecessors in undercounting the number of civilians killed during U.S. wars, as the...

Biden and Putin’s first meeting won’t reset US relations with Russia

Jennifer Mathers, Aberystwyth University No one is expecting any major breakthroughs from US president Joe Biden’s first meeting since his election with Russian president Vladimir...