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Biden keeps U.S. refugee cap at Trump-era 15,000 – for now
President Joe Biden signed an order on Friday limiting U.S. refugee admissions this year to the historically low 15,000 cap set under his predecessor Donald Trump, shelving a plan to raise it to 62,500 and drawing the ire of refugee advocates and some Democratic lawmakers. But as criticism mounted, the White House issued a statement…
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US eyes major rollback in Iran sanctions to revive nuke deal
In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Hassan Rouhani speaks in a meeting in Tehran, Iran, on Dec. 9, 2020. The Biden administration is weighing a near wholesale rollback of some of the most stringent Trump-era sanctions imposed on Iran, in a bid to get the…
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Biden losing friends and gaining enemies
Biden’s unforced errors are killing America in the grand geopolitical game of the 21st century. US President Joe Biden speaks about foreign policy at the State Department in Washington on February 4, 2021. Photo: AFP / Saul Loeb US President Joseph R Biden rose to power promising to restore America’s purportedly ailing alliances. Allies are…
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Biden picks an ill-conceived fight with Russia
Russia’s military build-up on the Ukrainian border threatens a war that will be hard to stop once it starts. Russian servicemen conduct operations during Command Post exercise of the Airborne Force at the Opuk base in Crimea. (Photo by Igor Rudenko/Sputnik via AFP) What does Russia want from Ukraine? This is one of the vital…
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Cost of Afghan war exceeds $2.26tn and rising
UK and NATO vow return to Afghanistan if any terrorist threat re-emerges in the wartorn nation. U.S. Army Sgt. Anthony Limon (right) and Sgt. Aaron Hestand, both from White Tank, 2nd Platoon, Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment, keep watch during a patrol near Combat Outpost Sangar, Zabul province, Afghanistan. DoD photo by Staff…
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Biden drops a genocide bomb on Erdogan
Biden’s curiously timed statement on WWI atrocity against Ottoman Armenians drives US-Turkey relations to a new low. Then US Vice President Joe Biden (L) and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in 2016. Biden called Erdogan the day before making his announcement on Armenia. Photo: AFP/Kayhan Ozer/Turkey’s Presidential Press Service Over the weekend, President Joe Biden…
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John Kerry denies allegations he divulged Israel’s covert operations
Kerry called the claims – detailed in leaked audio obtained by several media outlets – ‘unequivocally false.’ U.S. Special Climate Envoy John Kerry on Monday denied allegations that while he was serving as secretary of state under Barack Obama informed the Iranian foreign minister of Israeli operations in Syria. In a Twitter post, Kerry called the claims…
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U.S. Supreme Court rejects Texas-led lawsuit seeking to protect a Trump immigration policy
The court declined to hear a Texas-led case that seeks to uphold a Trump-era “public charge” policy that could limit how many immigrants qualify for green cards. The U.S. Supreme Court building at sunset. Credit: REUTERS/Erin Scott Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news….
