Washington: US President Joe Biden declared himself “outraged and deeply pained” Friday by newly released footage showing the fatal police beating of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man from Memphis. “The footage that was released this evening will leave people justifiably outraged,” Biden said in a statement, urging protesters to remain peaceful. “Those who seek … Read more
Washington: The first secret documents turned up in Joe Biden’s former private office and home back in November, but it was January before the White House publicly admitted the embarrassing discovery under pressure from a steady drip of media revelations. Since then, searches of the president’s home have uncovered several more sets of classified files … Read more
Washington: The Biden Administration has announced plans to expand the premium processing of some of the important categories of green card applicants and some categories of visas, particularly those related to training of foreign students. The expansion of these categories would be carried out in phases beginning with the premium processing of EB-1 and EB-2 … Read more
President Joe Biden intends to visit the U.S.-Mexico border — his first trip there since taking office — in connection with his meeting next week in Mexico City with the leaders of Mexico and Canada. “That’s my intention, we’re working out the details now,” Biden told reporters Wednesday during a trip to Kentucky. READ | … Read more
Washington: US President Joe Biden on Tuesday renominated Eric Garcetti, the former Mayor of Los Angeles, as his envoy to India, with the White House exuding confidence that he would be confirmed by the United States Senate this time. “Eric M. Garcetti, of California, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of … Read more
Washington: US President Joe Biden has sent his deepest condolences to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the loss of his mother Hiraben who died in Gujarat at the age of 99. Hiraben died at a hospital in Ahmedabad in the early hours of Friday. READ | ‘My hope this Christmas season is that…’: President Joe … Read more
Washington: US President Joe Biden has nominated Indian-American lawyer diplomat Richard Verma, also a former US ambassador to India, to a top diplomatic position in the State Department, a move hailed by the Indian diaspora here as an “inspired choice”. The White House in a statement on Friday said that Joe Biden announced his intent … Read more
Washington: President Joe Biden delivered a Christmas address from the White House on Thursday, wishing an increasingly divided America a “fresh start” including a purge of “the poison that has infected our politics and set us against one another.” The Democrat leader has recently taken a more aggressive stance against opposition Republicans, but with Christmas … Read more
Moscow: The Kremlin said Thursday that Washington and Kyiv were turning a deaf ear to Russia’s concerns following a historic visit by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to the United States. READ | Ukraine’s President Zelensky to meet Joe Biden, address Congress in Washington President Zelensky enjoyed a hero’s welcome on a lightning trip to Washington … Read more
Washington: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet US leader Joe Biden and address Congress in Washington on Wednesday, a visit the White House said will send Russia a strong message of Western unity. The secretly arranged trip comes on the same day Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to meet his top military officials to assess … Read more
The admission of Ukraine to Nato could result in a third world war, said Alexander Venediktov, the deputy secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation on Thursday. In an interview with TASS news agency, Venediktov said, “Kyiv is well aware that such a step would mean a guaranteed escalation to a World War … Read more