Renewed US-Russia Nuke Pact Won’t Fix Emerging Arms Threats

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration was quick to breathe new life into the last remaining treaty limiting U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons. The going will be slower when it turns to other arms control problems that are either festering or emerging as potential triggers of an international arms race. China is modernizing its arsenal of …

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US Deputy Africa Commander Visits Sudan, Hails ‘New Beginning’

CAIRO — A U.S. deputy commander for Africa on Wednesday welcomed a “new beginning” and a “renewed relationship” between the U.S. and Sudan following the African country’s removal from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism. The remarks by Andrew Young, a deputy commander at U.S. Africa Command, or AFRICOM, came on the third …

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US Deputy Africa Commander in Sudan, Hails ‘New Beginning’

CAIRO — A U.S. deputy commander for Africa on Wednesday welcomed a “new beginning” and a “renewed relationship” between the U.S. and Sudan following the African country’s removal from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism. The remarks by Andrew Young, a deputy commander at U.S. Africa Command, or AFRICOM, came on the third …

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Daniel Pearl case: Pakistan court orders man accused in American’s death freed

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the release of a Pakistani man convicted and later acquitted in the gruesome beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002. The court also dismissed an appeal of Ahmad Saeed Omar Sheikh’s acquittal by Pearl’s family and the Pakistani government. Sheikh has been on death row …

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India donates first 500,000 doses of vaccine to Sri Lanka

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) – Sri Lanka‘s president on Thursday welcomed the first 500,000 doses of a COVID-19 vaccine from India, which has donated the shots to eight countries in the region. The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine was manufactured by the Serum Institute of India. Sri Lanka said 150,000 health workers and 115,000 selected military and police …

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