Tag: Joe Biden

• Tuesday, April 11th 2023 - 10:40 UTC

  Bomb attack on police force in Londonderry, a day before President Biden arrives in Northern Ireland

  

  A police vehicle in Londonderry, Northern Ireland was attacked with Molotov bombs and set on fire on Monday, that is a day before US president Joe Biden arrives in Belfast for a visit of the country and the Republic.

• Tuesday, April 11th 2023 - 10:36 UTC

  US: Biden signs bill ending Covid-19 emergency

  

  US President Joseph Biden Monday signed into law a bill officially ending the Covid-19 crisis by May 11, this year, thus lifting the current national emergency and public health emergency declarations enacted by former President Donald Trump in 2020, it was announced in Washington DC.

• Monday, April 10th 2023 - 12:45 UTC

  Biden visit to Ulster and Ireland to remember the Good Friday peace agreement

  

  UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has praised the “bravery, perseverance and political imagination” shown by the leaders who shaped Northern Ireland's peace deal, the 1998 Good Friday Agreement which ended Northern Ireland's decades-long violent conflict known as the Troubles, reports BBC.

• Thursday, April 6th 2023 - 09:57 UTC

  US: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to enter Democratic Party primaries for 2024

  

  Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a nephew of former US President John F. Kennedy, filed the customary paperwork to enter the Democratic Party's primaries in 2024, it was reported Wednesday.

• Tuesday, April 4th 2023 - 09:39 UTC

  Florida legalizes concealed guns without a permit

  

  The US State of Florida Monday legalized through Governor Ron DeSantis's signature the carrying of concealed weapons without a permit. The state Senate passed House Bill 543 by a 27-13 vote last week. The bill also received heavy Republican support in the House, where it passed by a 76-32 vote. “Constitutional Carry is in the books,” DeSantis said in a statement.

• Saturday, April 1st 2023 - 10:11 UTC

  US: Trump expected to be arrested Tuesday

  

  Former US President Donald J. Trump seems to have been right after all when he announced that he would be incarcerated. He was not entirely accurate about the when, but he is now expected to be formally arrested and arraigned next Tuesday after being indicted by a grand jury on Thursday.

• Thursday, March 30th 2023 - 10:55 UTC

  Fernández seeks Biden's help ahead of further IMF talks

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernandez was welcomed Wednesday at the White House by his US colleague Joseph Biden. The South American leader explained that his country was going through its worst drought since 1929, which “has greatly complicated our economy” and sought Biden's help in the upcoming negotiations with international creditors. The meeting was to have been held in July 2022 but the US president contracted Covid-19 and it was postponed.

• Tuesday, March 14th 2023 - 09:52 UTC

  Biden says US banking system safe after Silicon Valley Bank collapse

  

  US President Joseph Biden said his country's banking system was “safe” in the aftermath of last week's collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, a California financial giant specialized in the technology sector. Biden insisted Monday that Americans can “trust that the banking system is safe,” and said he would seek to move forward with stronger regulations.

• Friday, February 24th 2023 - 10:14 UTC

  Biden picks Indian-American candidate to chair World Bank

  

  Former Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga has been picked by US President Joseph Biden to vie for chairman of the World Bank (WB), it was announced Thursday in Washington DC. Banga, 63, who was born and raised in India, has the indispensable experience to mobilize public and private resources to address the most urgent challenges of our time, including global warming, the White House explained through a statement.

• Thursday, February 23rd 2023 - 10:02 UTC

  Putin no longer recognizes Moldova's independence - new invasion ahead?

  

  Russian President Vladimir Putin has repealed a 2012 decree recognizing Moldova as an independent country, thus sparking concern among western powers that a new invasion could be in the making, as Russia's Defense Ministry denounced that Kyiv was preparing an armed provocation in the Moldovan separatist region of Transnistria