Source link The US does not intend to take part in any potential retaliatory strike on Tehran on West Jerusalem’s behalf, unnamed officials told the outlet The US will not help Israel retaliate in the wake of Iran’s missile and drone attack by launching offensive military operations, Biden administration officials have been privately warning, according […]
Source link Privately, US President Joe Biden is concerned West Jerusalem is attempting to pull America into a wider conflict Some officials in Washington are worried that West Jerusalem’s response to Iran’s recent airstrikes could be reckless and escalatory, NBC news wrote on Sunday, citing anonymous White House sources. Iran launched several waves of drone […]
Source link Tehran is factoring in potential American reprisals, officials have told the news outlet The US expects Iran to moderate its retaliation for an Israeli airstrike on its consulate in Damascus out of fear that Washington will respond, sources have told Politico. The US government believes the Iranian response to the April 1 incident […]
Source link Twelve countries are yet to meet the pledge to spend 2% of their GDP on defense, the American ambassador to the US-led bloc Julianne Smith said on Monday. NATO set the two-percent goal in 2014, after the US-backed coup in Kiev touched off the Donbass conflict. All members were supposed to make the […]
Source link The US presidential candidate reportedly wants Kiev to cede territory to Moscow as part of a peace deal Ukraine will have to give up some of the territory it currently claims to Russia as part of a peace deal envisioned by former US President Donald Trump, The Washington Post reported on Sunday, citing […]
Source link State subsidies for China’s industrial sector pose a risk to the global economy, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has claimed that China’s industrial sector produces much more goods than its domestic market can absorb. Speaking on Friday to the American business community in the Chinese city of […]
Source link US President Joe Biden ordered a pause on approvals of the sale of gas from new projects in January US officials are in talks about unfreezing approvals of new liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports in order to get a Ukraine aid package passed in Congress, Reuters reported on Monday, citing sources close to […]
Source link Unlike the EU, the US is willing to buy Turkish explosives to arm Ukraine, the outlet has reported The US is planning to increase purchases of military-grade explosives from Türkiye to ramp up production of artillery shells, after its stockpiles were drained by the Ukraine conflict, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. Western nations are […]
Source link Not sending a delegation to the US was a “message to Hamas,” the Israeli prime minister has said Israel canceled the planned visit of a high-level delegation to the US as a message to Hamas, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday. The snub came after Washington refused to veto a UN Security […]
Source link New Delhi has summoned a senior US diplomat following comments on opposition leader Arvind Kejriwal’s case India summoned a top US diplomat on Wednesday to notify Washington that it “strongly objected” to comments on the arrest of prominent opposition leader Arvind Kejriwal, the Acting Chief Minister of Delhi. Reacting to the American statement, […]
Source link A military presence in Niger is vital for combating extremist violence and threats to US interests in the Sahel, the Pentagon says Washington has not received a formal notice from Niger’s military government for the withdrawal of US military personnel and civilian contractors from the Sahel nation, Pentagon official Celeste Wallander has said. […]
Source link US rulers decry the lack of choices for Russian voters, even as they try to take down America’s most popular 2024 candidate America’s legacy media and political ruling class have thrown a predictably massive hissy fit over last weekend’s Russian election, insisting that President Vladimir Putin’s landslide victory was “preordained” and “stage-managed.” Every […]
Source link The move could help unlock funds for domestic development of the fuel for next-generation nuclear reactors, the energy secretary has reportedly said US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm has called on Congress to ban uranium supplies from Russia in order to support domestic development of the fuel for next-generation nuclear reactors, according to a […]
Source link New Delhi has previously called the legislation an “internal matter” and said no foreign party has a right to interfere Washington is concerned over India’s Citizenship Amendment Act and is “closely monitoring” how it will be implemented, a US State Department spokesperson told Reuters. The new law halves the residence requirement for citizenship […]
Source link Despite setbacks, Kiev can still achieve victories, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller has said Washington believes that Kiev will produce “some nice surprises on the battlefield” for Russia, US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said at a press briefing on Tuesday. The phrase was used by outgoing Under Secretary Victoria Nuland during a […]