Middle East

Biden tells Erdogan he plans to recognise Armenian ‘genocide’

aljazeera– United States President Joe Biden told Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that he plans to recognise the mass killing of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during World War I as an act of “genocide”, Bloomberg and the Reuters news agencies reported Friday, citing people

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Extreme weather testing Biden’s disaster management skills

independent– Add Mother Nature to the pile of crises on President Joe Biden s plate. A month into the job and focused on the coronavirus, Biden is seeing his disaster management skills tested after winter storms plunged Texas Oklahoma and neighboring states into an unusual deep freeze that left millions shivering in homes that lost heat and power, and […]

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How Joe Biden’s cold war experience will shape his approach to Russia

theguardian– It was 1988, near the end of the cold war, when then-senator Joe Biden made yet another visit to the Soviet Union for talks on arms control. By that time, he felt comfortable enough in Moscow to bring a guest into the room: his teenage son. “Would you mind my son, Hunter Biden, sitting in and […]

Europe

Brexit LIVE: Huge US trade deal warning as historic Biden phone call leaves sour taste

During the call, the two leaders discussed their intention to maintain solid trans-Atlantic ties, especially ahead of the UK holding the G7 summit and the UN Climate Change Conference next year. But in a warning to the Prime Minister, Mr Biden also reminded him of the need to protect the peace process in Ireland. Following […]