President Joe Biden will deliver a joint address to Congress on Wednesday night, with the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan among the possible topics to expect in the nationally-televised speech. Earlier this month, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the speech (which is technically not a State of the Union address) will cover “building the …
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LONDON (AP) – A fleet of British warships and military aircraft billed as the “largest concentration of maritime and air power to leave the U.K. in a generation” will depart next month for visits to India, Japan, South Korea and Singapore, in a display of Britain’s ambition to exert a much stronger presence in Asia. …
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The scheduled exit from Afghanistan in September represents much more than the end of the longest war in U.S. history. It will also mark the dawn of an era for a U.S. counterterrorism campaign that after two full decades will not have Afghanistan as a key staging ground and logistical hub. In the next phase …
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China canceled an online meeting with American officials last year to discuss mounting concerns regarding secret Chinese biological weapons work in possible violation of an international treaty, according to a new report. The meeting between State Department arms control officials and their Chinese counterparts was planned as a video conference rather than in person because …
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JERUSALEM (AP) – Competing claims to the holy city of Jerusalem have long fueled fighting between Israel and the Palestinians. But a new mix of players, including Gaza militants and Jewish Israeli extremists, have made the latest round of violence particularly combustible. The unrest has been characterized by nightly clashes between Palestinian youths and Jerusalem …
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