On Day 2 of his US visit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the White House to meet American President Joe Biden for the first time since the latter assumed office in January this year.
The booster plan marks an important shift in the nation's vaccination drive. Britain and Israel are already giving a third round of shots over strong objections from the World Health Organization that poor countries don't have enough for their initial doses.
President Joe Biden, the three prime ministers -- Narendra Modi, Scott Morrison from Australia and Yoshihide Suga from Japan -- are to attend the first-ever in-person meeting of the Quad leaders in the East Room of the White House on Friday afternoon.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on a three-day visit to the US, starting Wednesday (today), for a bilateral meeting with President Joe Biden and to attend the historic Quad summit.
According to authors, Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, Biden had to adjust a lot since he felt Trump's presence permeated the White House.
An influential federal advisory panel overwhelmingly rejected a plan to offer Pfizer booster shots against COVID-19 to most Americans.
US President Joe Biden would host the first-ever in-person Quad summit on September 24 which will be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia and Japanese premier Yoshihide Suga, the White House announced on Monday. The four leaders would discuss deepening their ties and advancing practical cooperation on areas like combatting COVID-19, addressing the climate crisis and promoting a free and open Indo-Pacific, the White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said.
The Quad summit will take place amidst China's aggressive behaviour in the resource-rich South China Sea.
So far, the US has brought more than 6,000 American citizens and lawful permanent residents home to the United States under Operation Allies Welcome thus far.
Taliban's hardline interim government includes specially designated global terrorist Sirajuddin Haqqani as the acting interior minister.
"China has a real problem with Taliban. They try to work out some of that with the Taliban, I am sure. As does Pakistan, as does Russia, as does Iran," Biden told reporters at the White House.
“The world is united in what they expect the Taliban to do, which is allow people who want to depart the country to depart. And China has to decide where they are in that effort,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters at her daily news conference on Thursday.
Biden, in making his case to end the war in Afghanistan, repeatedly said winding it down would allow the US to put greater focus on combating malevolent acts from adversaries Russia and China.
The lawmakers said the US military should commit to responding with overwhelming force to continued attacks on or around the Kabul airport.
From White House, Biden praised the outcome as “a step closer to truly investing in the American people.” He said at a news conference that he had called to congratulate House leaders for the work.
After Afghanistan fell to the Taliban and the civilian government collapsed last week, the country has landed into a tumultuous situation with thousands seeking to leave through Kabul airport
Pentagon officials said that after interruptions on Monday, the airlift was back on track and being accelerated despite weather problems, amid regular communication with Taliban leaders.
"America must lead the world on clean and efficient cars and trucks. That means bolstering our domestic market by setting a goal that 50 pc of all new passenger cars and light trucks sold in 2030 be zero-emission vehicles, including battery-electric, plug-in hybrid electric, or fuel cell electric vehicles," said the executive order signed on Thursday.
"That is certainly under strong consideration, but it is under a policy process review right now that I won't get ahead of myself," White House press secretary Jen Psaki said at a daily briefing, Xinhua news agency reported.
With a need for several billion doses around the world, US was committed to provide half a billion, Biden said during a press conference at White House on Tuesday.
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