The Joe Biden administration is resisting pressure from Congress and humanitarian orgs to blacklist African leaders, Robbie Gramer reported in Foreign Policy. Lawmakers and several NGOs have argued the sanctions are needed to punish human rights abuses across the continent.
Western reliance on nuclear energy technology from Moscow is interfering with US sanctions on Russia, driving Washington to seek alternatives as the United States and its European allies aim to decouple from Russia’s energy sector.
The United States and its NATO allies are accelerating transfers of arms, warm clothing and anti-drone technology to Ukraine in preparation for months of bitter combat through the winter. Washington believes shoring up frontline forces before mud and ice set in will help Kiev to hold ground over the coming season.
Military activity on the Korean Peninsula saw another round of escalation on Thursday. Pyongyang flew 12 warplanes near its border with South Korea, prompting Seoul to scramble dozens of fighter jets in response. Meanwhile, Washington, Seoul and Tokyo conducted joint war games. Tensions between Washington and Pyongyang have steadily increased since President Joe Biden took office, seeing a major spike over the past two weeks. In that time, North Korea has conducted six missile tests, with one projectile launched over Japan for the first time since 2017. On Thursday, South Korea reported...
Pyongyang test-fired two short-range missiles that flew in the direction of Japan on Thursday, after a similar launch earlier this week reached Japanese airspace and prompted a show of force from Washington and Seoul in response. The latest missile test was the DPRK’s twenty-fourth so far this year, a record number since supreme leader Kim Jong-un took power in 2011. Initially, Tokyo warned that the missiles would likely cross Japanese territory, but the projectiles fell short of the county’s waters. Pyongyang’s rash of missile tests comes after a period of relative quiet and even...
US Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to the border of North Korea and slammed the government in Pyongyang. After she departed South Korea, the DPRK carried out its third missile test this week. Military activity around the Korean Peninsula has escalated in recent weeks. In August, Washington and Seoul conducted live-fire war games for the first time in five years. This week, the USS Ronald Reagan made the first port call by an American aircraft carrier in South Korea since 2018. Since taking office, President Joe Biden has committed to deploying more weapons to the Asia-Pacific. In...
The White House on Wednesday announced it would send over $1 billion in security assistance to Egypt. The Joe Biden administration approved the aid as several top Democratic lawmakers pushed to reduce security assistance for Egypt by $300 million. While Egyptian military dictator Abdel Fattah el-Sisi's government is creditably accused of severe human rights abuses, Cairo is the third-largest recipient of US aid. Washington sends military aid to Egypt to bribe the government in Cairo to adopt policies favorable towards Tel Aviv. Egypt’s tight control over a key border crossing in the heavily...
On Monday, Ukraine's Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal met with European leaders to request more weapons and suggest Kiev could help bring down gas prices. European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell pledged the bloc would continue to support Ukraine no matter what. Shmyhal made the proposal while attending the EU-Ukraine Association Council summit in Brussels. "We need more modern weapons, such as air defense, missile defense and ship defense," he said. Shmyhal additionally requested aircraft and armored vehicles. The government in Kiev has relied on America and its European partners to...
