Biden administration

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during the release of the 2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices at the State Department in Washington, DC, U.S., March 30, 2021. Mandel NganPool via REUTERS
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Blinken seeks Israel’s ‘equal’ treatment of Palestinians

Blinken also committed to “strengthening all aspects of the US-Israel partnership” and voiced support for the Jewish state’s agreements over the past year to normalize relations with four more Arab...

US President Joe Biden speaks about the fight to contain the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic, at the White House in Washington, US January 26, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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Biden calls for $100 billion to expand US broadband access

Democratic US presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks about the economy and the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic during a campaign stop at UFCW (United Food and Commercial Workers) Local 951 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, US, October 2, 2020/ Reuters
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Biden infrastructure plan bets big on US return to mass transit after Covid-19

US President Joe Biden. Photo: Collected
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Biden says $2 trillion jobs plan rivals the space race in its ambition

Major, one of the family dogs of US President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden, explores the South Lawn after on his arrival from Delaware at the White House in Washington, US January 24, 2021. Adam Schultz/White House/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
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Biden's German Shepherd Major in dog house a second time for nipping someone

US President Joe Biden participates in a CNN town hall in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., February 16, 2021. REUTERS/Leah Millis
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White House announces new measures to counter anti-Asian violence

US President Joe Biden participates in a CNN town hall in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., February 16, 2021. REUTERS/Leah Millis
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Biden welcomes Xi, Putin at climate summit on April 22

Protesters gather outside of the Georgia State Capitol to protest HB 531, which would place tougher restrictions on voting in Georgia, in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. March 4, 2021. Reuters/Dustin Chambers/
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Biden attacks Georgia's new voting limits as 'an atrocity'

Residents hold US and North Korean flags while they wait for motorcade of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un en route to the Metropole Hotel for the second US- North Korea summit in Hanoi, Vietnam, 28 February, 2019/ Reuters
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North Korea says Biden administration took wrong first step over latest missile test

Then-US Vice President Joe Biden attends a meeting with then-Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping at Beijing Hotel in Beijing, on Aug. 19, 2011. LINTAO ZHANG/GETTY IMAGES
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Trump got China all wrong. Now Biden is too

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un applauds at the 8th Congress of the Workers' Party in Pyongyang, North Korea, in this photo supplied by North Korea's Central News Agency (KCNA) on January 11, 2021.KCNA/via REUTERS
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North Korea missile test casts shadow over Biden administration, Japan Olympics

US President-elect Joe Biden speaks to reporters following an online meeting with members of the National Governors Association (NGA) executive committee in Wilmington, Delaware, US, November 19, 2020. REUTERS/Tom Brenner/File Photo
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Biden considers executive actions on guns, calls on Congress to pass weapons ban

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. Photo: Reuters
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Biden aims to prevent border crossings from swamping agenda