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LIMA, Peru | Xinhua | Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday met with U.S. President Joe Biden on the sidelines of the 31st APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting in Lima, Peru. Noting that he was pleased to meet with Biden again, Xi said China-U.S. relations over the past four years have gone …

WASHINGTON, the United States | TASS | Democrats are blaming President Joe Biden for the election loss of the party’s presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, Reuters reported. According to the report, the sharpest criticism asserts that the party had “lied to its supporters about President Joe Biden’s mental fitness” until a disastrous television …

WASHINGTON, the United States | Xinhua | U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday called President-elect Donald Trump to congratulate him on election victory, according to the White House. “President Biden expressed his commitment to ensuring a smooth transition and emphasized the importance of working to bring the country together,” the …

The U.S.-Africa summit is a failure if Americans do not treat Africans as equals NAIROBI, KENYA | Xinhua | Distrust of the United States has been growing across sub-Saharan Africa for decades, with recent developments widening the country’s credibility gap and offering little hope for improvement. Earlier this month, U.S. …

  Rome | VATICAN NEWS | On the flight back to Rome from Singapore, Pope Francis spoke to the journalists accompanying his Apostolic Journey to Asia and Oceania. He discussed the dramatic situation in the Holy Land, as the number of victims in Gaza has exceeded 41,000. One question touched …

LOS ANGELES | Xinhua | U.S. President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden pleaded guilty Thursday to all nine counts in his criminal tax case in a Los Angeles federal court. Hunter Biden, 54, was indicted in California in December on nine counts related to a Justice Department investigation into his …

COMMENT | NANCY QIAN |  Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the 2024 US presidential race remains one of the biggest stories of the year. Criticized for his June debate performance and showing clear signs of aging, the 81-year-old president finally acknowledged what the polls were showing and handed the reins to …

TEL AVIV | TASS | Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has called on the country’s authorities not to send a delegation “to talks in Doha or Cairo” to try to make a deal on Gaza, as he made no bones about his position that the Palestinian Hamas movement should …

One challenge is the `Hubert Humphrey dilemma`; how to appear loyal to Biden without being weighed down COMMENT | RICHARD HAASS | U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to step aside as the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate this fall has transformed American politics. It caps a historic July in the United States, …

WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES | TASS | US President Joe Biden confirmed that he would address the nation on the subject of withdrawal from the US presidential race on Wednesday. “Tomorrow evening at 8 PM ET [midnight GMT], I will address the nation from the Oval Office on what lies ahead, …