US News
- The VA will require 115,000 healthcare employees to get vaccinated. [Link]
- Venezuela says a US military plane violated its airspace along the border with Colombia. [Link]
Great Power
- The US will meet with Russian officials for arms control talks in Geneva this week. [Link]
- The US is moving dozens of military aircraft to Guam for the Pacific Iron 21 war games. [Link]
- China hit the US with retaliatory sanctions. Former Trump Administration official Wilbur Ross was among those sanctioned. [Link]
- Wendy Sherman held talks with Chinese officials. [Link]
- Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin will travel to several southeastern Asian countries to build partnerships against China. [Link]
- The UK aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth enters the South China Sea. [Link]
North Korea
- Wendy Sherman, the Deputy Secretary of State, says the US has offered to open negotiations with North Korea. [Link]
- North and South Korea agree to restore a hotline between the two countries. [Link]
Afghanistan
- Pakistan reopens a border crossing with Afghanistan that is controlled by the Taliban. [Link]
- Four Afghan journalists were arrested for spreading propaganda. [Link]
