High-level officials to push India-US agenda set by Modi, Biden
Growing cooperation between the two countries on security, trade and cooperation with the Quad on providing Covid vaccines figured in their talks.
Growing cooperation between the two countries on security, trade and cooperation with the Quad on providing Covid vaccines figured in their talks.
The back-to-back votes by the Senate and then the House averted one crisis but delays another as the political parties dig in on a dispute over how to raise the government's borrowing cap before the United States risks a potentially catastrophic default.
The consideration comes in the event that current funding runs out on September 30, White House press secretary Jen Psaki has said.
The AUKUS, which notably excludes France and the European Union, is a strategic Indo-Pacific alliance with Australia and Britain to counter China.
The new security alliance will allow for greater sharing of defense capabilities — including helping equip Australia with nuclear-powered submarines. It’s a move that could deepen a growing chasm in U.S.-China relations.
The US embassy in Kabul also issued a new warning on Sunday about a "specific, credible threat" near the Kabul airport and asked Americans to "immediately" leave areas outside the airport gates.
"The ISIS-K attack was a show of defiance against the Taliban, which has claimed control of Kabul and most of Afghanistan on August 15"
The US has been scrambling to evacuate Americans and its Afghan partners from the country since the Taliban entered the capital Kabul on August 15.
The speed of the Afghan government’s collapse and the ensuing chaos posed the most serious test of Biden as commander in chief, and he was the subject of withering criticism from Republicans who said that he had failed.
The Senate approval comes as the administration is under increased pressure to react to a series of ransomware attacks
