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Day-long extension of Israel-Hamas truce agreed
The announcement came hours after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Israel on Wednesday night, and with growing pressure for an extension of the...
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With X's Musk under fire, Biden joins rival Threads
The White House confirmed it had launched Threads accounts for the president, First Lady Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, her husband Douglas Emhoff and the White House itself in English and Spanish.
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Not just Biden -- 77-year-old Trump also under age scrutiny
Videos of the 77-year-old real estate tycoon stammering, verbally stumbling, or looking frail and sweaty have been gleefully posted on social media by the campaign team of Ron DeSantis. The Florida governor, a youthful 45, is currently leading Trump's Republican rivals in opinion polls in most states
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Biden believes deal on Hamas hostages 'going to happen'
Biden said that he was in discussions with the ‘people involved’ daily, but offered no specifics on the potential deal, telling the families of those being held by the Palestinian militant group to ‘hang in there’.
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China, US to launch working group on climate action
Xi Jinping and Joe Biden will huddle on the sidelines of the APEC summit in California for their first encounter in a year as trade tensions, sanctions and the question of Taiwan fuelled quarrels between Washington and Beijing.
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Israeli tanks at gate of Gaza hospital, Biden urges care
After days of heavy air strikes around Gaza City's Al-Shifa hospital, witnesses said tanks and armoured vehicles were metres from the gate of the besieged facility, which has become a focal point of the five-week-old war.
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Biden embraces allies as Xi comes to San Francisco
The Biden-Xi meeting on Wednesday is expected to take up a broad gamut of disagreements including Taiwan, whose elections in two months could trigger fresh tensions with Beijing, which claims the self-ruling democracy and has not ruled out seizing it by force.
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Israel agrees to four-hour 'pauses' in Gaza, US says
US President Joe Biden has been pressing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for longer breaks in the fighting after more than a month of war sparked by the 7 October attacks by Hamas.
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Bipartisan consensus AGOA should remain beyond 2024 elections: US Labour Affairs
While there have been concerns that a possible change in US leadership could lead to a potential push to re-negotiate the trade pact, the US Special Representative for International Labour Affairs said parties in Congress are pulling in the same direction when it came to AGOA.
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US reinstates Mauritania’s AGOA benefits as it looks to axe 4 other countries
US President Joe Biden has communicated his intention to boot out Niger, Gabon, the Central African Republic and Uganda at the beginning of next year. Mauritania was kicked off the programme by Joe Biden’s predecessor Donald Trump in 2019 over forced labour practices.
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Biden voices support for humanitarian 'pause' in Israel-Hamas war
The US president was responding to a heckler on Wednesday at a campaign event, saying he thinks that there should be a humanitarian ‘pause’ in the war to get ‘prisoners’ – referring to hostages held by Hamas – out of Gaza.
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Zelensky hails Biden's 'powerful address' in support of Ukraine
US President Biden made an impassioned call for the United States to show global leadership by backing both Israel and Ukraine in a speech to the nation from the Oval Office Thursday.
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Biden says Egypt to open Gaza crossing for up to 20 aid trucks
The first 20 trucks will be a test of a system for distributing aid without allowing the Palestinian militant organisation Hamas, which controls Gaza, to benefit, the US president said.
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Biden during State visit in Israel amid war: 'Americans are worried'
Just over a week ago in the early hours of the morning of Saturday 7 October, the militant wing of Hamas launched an attack on Israel from Gaza killing hundreds of people and taking a number of hostages.
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Biden visit to Israel vital: EU foreign policy chief
Biden is due to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday amid frantic diplomatic efforts to ease the humanitarian crisis in Gaza after waves of Israeli retaliatory air strikes on the Hamas-ruled enclave.
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China 'firmly opposes' US sanctions over fentanyl drug crisis
Biden's administration has made the fight against fentanyl a priority, with the synthetic opioid blamed for tens of thousands of deaths in recent years.
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Biden unveils new student loan help after court blow
Biden is to unveil $9 billion in debt relief for 125,000 people, the latest in a series of measures announced by the Democrat this week as he eyes re-election in 2024.
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Zelensky wins Biden support but faces US skeptics
Wearing his trademark olive green military-style shirt, Zelensky said Ukraine "has exactly what our soldiers need" after Biden announced a new package of US military aid, including sophisticated air defense weapons.
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Four indictments on, Trump is still the man for Iowa supporters
Despite Trump's spiralling legal woes, the Midwesterners in Iowa, the first US state to host a presidential nominating contest in January, said they would not hesitate to vote for the embattled former president for a third time.
