United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced on 05 April 2024 the appointment of Julie Bishop of Australia as his Special Envoy on Myanmar.
Mexico City, Apr 17 (Prensa Latina) President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador thanked on Wednesday the Governments of Venezuela and Honduras for their diplomatic decisions regarding Ecuador, after the assault on the Mexican Embassy in Quito. The post Mexican President thanks Venezuela and Honduras for their decisions first appeared on Prensa Latina.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas stressed the need for the House to pass the Senate's bipartisan immigration bill as he faced criticism from Republicans for his handling of the immigration crisis at the Southern Border during a public hearing. The secretary appeared before the House Homeland Security Committee to testify on President Biden's 2025 budget request. Other topics discussed included flood insurance, cybersecurity concerns, preventing online child exploitation, workforce...
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas stressed the need for the House to pass the Senate's immigration bill as he faced criticism from Republicans for his perceived failures at addressing the immigration crisis at the Southern Border. The Secretary appeared before the House Homeland Security Committee to testify on President Biden's 2025 budget request. Several topics were discussed during the hearing, including flood insurance, cybersecurity concerns, preventing online child...
Despite writing this letter each week, I still wonder why so few of us write real ones anymore. I was thinking of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, who corresponded frequently but met only once: ‘The present racial crisis in this country carries within it powerful destructive ingredients that may soon erupt into an uncontrollable explosion,’ More
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said Israel and Iran should attempt to de-escalate violence after dueling missile strikes in recent days. Iran fired about 350 rockets toward Israel on Saturday evening, raising concerns over a regional war after Israel attacked Iranian military leaders in Syria last week. “Now is the time for maximum restraint,” Guterres
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday and expressed his appreciation to President Joe Biden and members of Congress for supporting the effort to send more military aid to the country as it fights to repel the Russian invasion.
The US Senate passed a similar measure a couple of months ago and is expected to approve the current bill in the coming week.
To the editor: Columnist Jackie Calmes accuses President Biden of complicity with Israel's continuing assault on Hamas. Doesn't the president's advocacy of a cease-fire also suggest complicity in allowing Hamas time to re-arm and strike again at a later date, which it has vowed to do? Calmes says that Israel has lost the "global goodwill" that came in the aftermath of Hamas' attack on Oct. 7. Where did that sudden surge in new global goodwill come from? I don't recall any, just campus protests...
The duo sent a mean letter to U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona on the eve of his trip to Arkansas to let him know we don't like his kind around here.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked U.S. political leaders Sunday for approving an aid package to Ukraine over the weekend, saying the new aid will give the country a chance at "victory" as it defends itself from Russia. “I think this support will really strengthen the armed forces, I pray, and we will have a chance at victory if Ukraine really gets the weapons system, which we need so much, which thousands of soldiers need so much,” Zelenskyy, who spoke through an interpreter, said...