Tag: Joe Biden

• Tuesday, November 9th 2021 - 09:25 UTC

  Biden's administration wants vaccination to proceed despite Court's order

  

  US Government officials of Joseph Biden's administration Monday insisted the presidential vaccination mandate should remain in force despite a federal court's issuance of a stay against it last Saturday.

• Monday, November 8th 2021 - 09:50 UTC

  Uneventful elections poised to secure new term for Ortega in Nicaragua

  

  When voting closed at 6 pm local time Sunday, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega was expecting confirmation of his reelection following a low turnout for the elections in which every likely opponent was either jailed or in exile, it was reported from Managua.

• Monday, November 8th 2021 - 08:50 UTC

  Federal court grants stay on Biden's vaccination mandate

  

  A federal court of appeals has granted a stay on US President's Joseph Biden's mandatory vaccination against covid-19 for employees working for companies with staffs of 100 or above, it was announced.

• Thursday, November 4th 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  Democrats win New Jersey, but not as easily as polls had forecast

  

  The Democratic Governor of New Jersey has been reelected, albeit by a narrow margin, which came as a relief for President Joseph Biden given a defeat in the state of Virginia earlier this week.

• Wednesday, November 3rd 2021 - 09:13 UTC

  Bolsonaro's Freudian slip: he said Jim Carrey when he meant John Kerry

  

  One is US President Joseph Biden's climate envoy and a former Secretary of State as well as a losing candidate to the presidency - John Kerry. The other is a comedy actor who usually plays funny roles, some of them in colourful makeup, Jim Carrey.

• Monday, November 1st 2021 - 20:35 UTC

  Biden tells Glasgow attendees the 2020s will determine the next generations regarding climate change

  

  US President Joseph Biden Monday said the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow should mark “the starting point of a decade of ambition and innovation” to fight climate change, which he believed is an “existential threat.” The summit is often billed as essential to putting the landmark 2015 Paris climate accord into action.

• Monday, November 1st 2021 - 08:55 UTC

  Biden announces US-UE negotiating carbon-conscious trade agreement

  

  As the Glasgow COP26 climate Summit was starting, US President Joseph Biden said from Rome that the United States and the European Union had agreed to negotiate “the world's first trade agreement based on how much carbon is in a product”.

• Sunday, October 31st 2021 - 08:16 UTC

  G20 agrees on global taxation reforms - COVID vaccines also discussed

  

  World leaders at the G20 Summit in Rome Saturday agreed on the global minimum tax (15%), which 136 countries had previously endorsed, it was announced.

• Saturday, October 30th 2021 - 00:04 UTC

  US President and Pope discuss climate change and COVID-19 vaccines

  

  US President Joseph Biden Friday met in Vatican City with Pope Francis, in an encounter during which climate change and COVID-19 vaccines topped the agenda at the same time the issue of abortion was cautiously overlooked by the Catholic Church's leader and one of his most prominent adherents.

• Wednesday, October 27th 2021 - 09:40 UTC

  Future US Ambassador to Buenos Aires says Argentina needs an economic plan

  

  Marc R. Stanley, the man chosen by US President Joseph Biden to become the next Ambassador to Buenos Aires, Tuesday said at his confirmation hearing before the Senate that the South American country needs an economic plan regarding its foreign debt.