Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | U.S. President Joe Biden will host Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta at the White House on Thursday, Press Secretary Jen Psaki said on Tuesday. “The leaders will discuss the strong U.S.-Kenyan bilateral relationship and the need to bring transparency and accountability to domestic and international financial systems,” …
Read More »Biden gets COVID-19 vaccine booster shot
Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday received his COVID-19 vaccine booster shot on camera at the White House. “Boosters are important, but the most important thing we need to do is get more people vaccinated,” Biden said before getting his booster shot. About 23 percent of …
Read More »Biden’s core agenda uncertain amid sinking poll numbers
Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | Negotiations over U.S. President Joe Biden’s 3.5-trillion-U.S.-dollar spending bill have hit a “stalemate,” leaving the fate of his entire first-term agenda up in the air. The president on Friday said negotiations have hit a deadlock amid heated disagreements between progressives and moderates in his party, which …
Read More »Biden administration prepares for possible gov’t shutdown
Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | The Joe Biden administration is preparing for a possible government shutdown in the event that current funding runs out on Sept. 30, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Thursday. “It’s consistent with longstanding practice across many administrations for OMB to simply remind agency senior …
Read More »Uganda receives 1.6 million doses of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda has received a consignment of more than 1.6 million doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines thanks to a donation by the United States government. This is the second consignment of COVID-19 vaccines that the Biden administration has sent to Uganda. The first arrived on September …
Read More »Biden defends U.S. hasty exit in post-Afghanistan withdrawal remarks
Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday defended his decision to hastily pull U.S. troops out of Afghanistan, a mission broadly criticized by the American public. During televised remarks delivered from the State Dining Room inside the White House, Biden spent a considerable portion of his speech …
Read More »Biden administration probes 5 Republican-led statewide bans on mask mandates
Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration announced on Monday that it has opened civil rights investigations into five Republican-led statewide bans on mask mandates to determine if they discriminate against students with disabilities. The ban on mask mandates “may be preventing schools … from meeting their legal …
Read More »Taliban welcomes U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan
Kabul, Afghanistan | Xinhua | The Taliban welcomed the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan shortly after the U.S. Central Command announced that the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Asian country has completed, a Taliban spokesman said early Tuesday. The last U.S. soldiers were evacuated from Kabul airport at mid-night on Monday, Taliban …
Read More »Biden vows retribution as death toll rises to 103 in Kabul attacks, says U.S. evacuation continues
Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | U.S. President Joe Biden said Thursday the United States will avenge militarily the bombing attacks earlier in the day in the Afghan capital of Kabul that have killed at least 103 people, adding the ongoing evacuation in Afghanistan will continue uninterrupted. The number of U.S. service …
Read More »U.S. to ensure Americans, partners can leave Afghanistan beyond Aug. 31: Blinken
Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday that the United States would work to ensure Americans and Afghan partners could leave Afghanistan beyond Aug. 31, the planned deadline for the ongoing evacuation led by the U.S. military. President Joe Biden confirmed on Tuesday that …
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