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Washington, US | XINHUA | U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin will likely hold a summit in Geneva in June, U.S. media reported on Monday. Citing sources familiar with the matter, several media outlets said that the Swiss city of Geneva is expected to be the venue …

  Washington, US | XINHUA |  The United States on Monday advised its citizens against traveling to Japan due to COVID-19 risk, two months before the start of the Tokyo Olympics. The State Department raised its travel advisory for Japan and Sri Lanka to “Level 4: Do Not Travel,” the …

Washington, US | XINHUA | U.S. Department of State said on Thursday that it welcomes the EU-led virtual meeting of the Joint Commission of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) scheduled on Friday. “We obviously welcome this as a positive step,” State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters during …

Washington, US | XINHUA | The U.S. House on Wednesday passed a bill to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), legislation sponsored by President Joe Biden in the 1990s when he was a U.S. senator but lapsed in 2019 as its latest revision expired. Voting largely along party lines, …

  Washington, US | XINHUA |  Candles were lit at the White House South Portico at sunset Monday, a day on which the number of Americans who died from COVID-19 broke the staggering record of 500,000. “That’s more lives lost to this virus than any other nation on Earth,” U.S. …

  Washington, US | XINHUA |  U.S. Senate voted on Saturday and acquitted former President Donald Trump, concluding his second impeachment trial which is the shortest one in the U.S. history. Seven Republican senators joined all the Democrats to vote “guilty,” failing to reach two-thirds majority required for Trump conviction …

  Natalie Brown finally meets Bobi Wine at Magere Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Natalie E. Brown, the U.S. Ambassador to Uganda has finally met and held talks with Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, the President of the National Unity Platform (NUP) party. Brown’s meeting with Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine took …

Washington, US | XINHUA | U.S. President Donald Trump will leave Washington, D.C. Wednesday morning shortly before President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, with a grandeur ceremony being planned for his departure, U.S. media reported Friday. The Associated Press cited people familiar with the plan as saying the farewell ceremony, to be …

  Washington, US | THE INDEPENDENT & XINHUA | The US Congress has finally formally certified Joe Biden’s election win. Vice President Mike Pence today announced the 306-232 Electoral College vote count after hours of debate, officially affirming Biden and Kamala Harris as the winners of the election. Soon after, …

  Washington, US | THE INDEPENDENT & XINHUA | A plan by supporters of US President Donald Trump to take control of the Capitol building has left one dead, and a curfew declared to help halt what many have referred to as a ‘coup attempt’. The U.S. Congress had convened …