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Montevideo, April 3rd 2025 - 02:45 UTC

Tag: Joe Biden

  • Friday, April 1st 2022 - 09:00 UTC

    US to admit “X” option on passports of gender-neutral citizens

    The Department of Homeland Security said Thursday it would introduce “more efficient, less invasive screening procedures” for trans travelers

    The United States Government of President Joe Biden has agreed to issue passports marked with an “X” in the gender box to adjust to the bearer's self-perception, it was announced Thursday during celebrations of the Transgender Day of Visibility.

  • Monday, March 28th 2022 - 09:35 UTC

    “Unwise comments from President Biden”, MP Tobias Ellwood

    The White House has been forced to clarify President Joe Biden’s apparent call for regime change in Russia during a speech in Warsaw on Saturday.

    The White House has been forced to clarify President Joe Biden’s apparent call for regime change in Russia during a speech in Warsaw on Saturday. The White House has been forced to clarify President Joe Biden’s apparent call for regime change in Russia during a speech in Warsaw on Saturday.

  • Friday, March 25th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

    NATO to respond if Russia uses chemical weapons, Biden warns

    The US President said Russia should be expelled from the G-20 (of which Argentina and Brazil are a part) and Ukraine be invited instead

    US President Joseph Biden Thursday said that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) would take direct action if Russia resorted to chemical weapons in Ukraine.

  • Tuesday, March 22nd 2022 - 09:55 UTC

    Biden not going to Ukraine but Boris Johnson might

    PM Johnson is said to have developed a personal bond with Zelensky

    US President Joseph Biden will not be traveling to Ukraine during his trip to Europe this week to meet with NATO and EU allies. But British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has reportedly expressed his interest in a journey to Kyiv to bring a solid sign of support to Volodimir Zelensky.

  • Tuesday, March 22nd 2022 - 09:15 UTC

    Diplomacy between US, Russia coming to an end

    Most western voices agree with Biden on Putin's status

    Diplomatic sources in Moscow Monday said whatever remained of ties between Russia and the United States was on the verge of collapse after Washington's Ambassador John Sullivan was handed “a demarche and a note of protest” in view of President Joseph Biden's remarks calling Russian leader Vladimir Putin “a war criminal” amid the invasion of Ukraine.

  • Wednesday, March 2nd 2022 - 09:36 UTC

    US and allies agree to release 60 million barrels of their oil reserves

    The International Energy Agency announced member countries have agreed to send a “strong message to global oil markets that there will be no shortfall”

    The United States and allies will be releasing 60 million barrels from their reserves, in an effort to contain the effect on supply and prices of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Thirty million will come from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve and the other half from allies in Europe and Asia.

  • Saturday, February 26th 2022 - 09:20 UTC

    US inflation in January at a four decades high, and still has to peak

    The figure reported on Friday by the Commerce Department, 6,1% was the largest year-over-year rise since 1982

    No peace for president Joe Biden absorbed by the Ukraine war, and for US consumers, inflation keeps surging and is expected to peak sometime midyear, before it begins to weaken. An inflation gauge closely monitored by the Federal Reserve effectively jumped 6.1% in January compared with a year ago.

  • Friday, February 25th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

    “People's Convoy” on its way to Washington DC

    The caravan intends to reach the nation's capital March 5

    US lorry drivers grouped under the “People's Convoy” have departed from California and are on their way to Washington DC to express their stance against COVID-19 restrictions.

  • Monday, February 21st 2022 - 20:23 UTC

    Biden okay with holding summit with Putin... “in principle”

    Meeting possible as long as Russia noes not attack Ukraine, Biden said

    US President Joseph Biden Monday said he would agree to hold a meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, who has also accepted the proposal submitted by France's leader Emmanuel Macron as the last diplomatic efforts are undertaken to avoid an all-out war over Ukraine.

  • Tuesday, February 15th 2022 - 09:11 UTC

    US relocates Ukrainian embassy as a precaution

    The measure was due to the “drastic acceleration in the Russian troop buildup,” Blinken said

    The Government of the United States has decided to temporarily shift its Embassy in Ukraine from Kiev to Lviv, near the Polish border, as a precaution amid mounting rumors of a Russian invasion allegedly scheduled for Feb.16, just when Presidents Vladimir Putin and Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro are to meet in Moscow.