After Biden's threat of conditions on US support, Israel has approved the reopening of the Erez crossing in northern Gaza and the Ashdod port in southern Israel. The US President warned Israeli PM Netanyahu after the killings of aid workers and stressed on protection of civilians.
The White House has said the US has no plans to conduct its own investigation even as it called on Israel to do more to prevent the harming of innocent civilians and aid workers as it carries out its operations in Gaza.
This call was the first communication between Xi Jinping and Joe Biden since their historic in-person meeting in California last year. During Tuesday's call, Biden also pressed China over its relationship with Russia and human rights concerns in Hong Kong.
Biden has been slammed by his rivals and Democrats alike for his support to Israel in the Gaza war that has decimated the coastal enclave and killed nearly 33,000 Palestinians. The Biden administration has continued to approve weapon sales to Israel despite urging it to prevent civilian deaths.
According to media reports, the woman, born to an Australian father and a Mizo mother, was on a mission to provide relief to the people of war-torn northern Gaza when the convoy she was travelling in came under fire late Monday.
Noting that incidents like this simply should not happen, US President Joe Biden said Israel has also not done enough to protect civilians in Gaza.
This is the first communication between the two leaders since they held a high-level meeting in California last November. Biden raised concerns over human rights abuses in China, Taiwan, South China Sea and Beijing's defence relationship with Russia in his call with Xi.
Baltimore bridge collapse: Safety investigators recovered the ship's black box, which can give them the vessel's position, speed, heading, radar, bridge audio, and radio communications as well as alarms.
Biden, since assuming office in January 2021, neither dialled Imran Khan after his election victory nor spoke to Shehbaz Sharif who succeeded Khan in April 2022. This was his first official communication to a Pak PM in four years.
Netanyahu abruptly scrapped a visit to Washington this week by a senior delegation to discuss Israel’s threatened offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah after the US abstained in a Security Council vote that demanded an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
US Justice Department has endorsed the lawsuit following years of allegations by critics that Apple has harmed competition with restrictive app store terms, high fees and its “walled-garden” approach to its hardware and software.
Both candidates have become their parties' presumptive nominees after securing enough delegates on Super Tuesday held on March 5. Biden and Trump's campaigns are firing up their bases by tearing into each other as many Americans are unwilling to witness the presidential rematch.
US President Biden and Israeli PM Netanyahu held talks in over a month and the latter agreed to send Israeli officials to Washington to discuss an alternative approach in Rafah. Israeli forces conducted another raid at al-Shifa hospital and killed 20 gunmen, as the UN warned of mass death in Gaza.
The digs against Republican Donald Trump kept coming from the president at the annual Gridiron Club and Foundation Dinner, as Biden deflected ongoing criticism that his memory is hazy and he appears confused, instead highlighting moments when the 77-year-old Trump has slipped up, too.
Referring to the people imprisoned in connection with the January 6 Capitol riots as hostages, Trump said, “You see the spirit from the hostages. And that's what they are -- hostages”.
The 81-year-old president has raised concerns after a series of verbal mixups, at times confusing the names of world leaders during his tenure at the White House. Recently, a damaging special counsel report claimed he had forgotten when his son Beau died of cancer.
Biden won the last time while competing against Trump in 2020, but majority of polls show Trump leading the current US president in the upcoming elections. Trump and Biden will officially become their respective party candidates by July and August during the nominating convention.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee ordered that six counts in the indictment, including three against Trump, must be dismissed as prosecutors failed to provide enough detail. The case accuses Trump and 18 others of conspiring to overturn his 2020 election loss in Georgia.
Trump secured the Republican presidential nomination for the third consecutive time after wins in Georgia, Mississippi and Washington state. Thus, Biden and Trump have kicked off the first US presidential election rematch in nearly 70 years.
Biden won enough delegates in Georgia, pushing his count past the required 1,968 needed to secure the presidential nomination. His troubled campaign against rival Donald Trump did not face any serious Democratic challengers despite low approval and concerns over his old age.
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