Friday Briefing
Friday Briefing
The G20 summit in New Delhi.
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U.S. Officers Have Visited China. Will Beijing Ship Anybody? When Gina Raimondo, the secretary of commerce, left China this week, it marked the tip of a three-month diplomatic blitz by the Biden administration to attempt to stabilize ties with Beijing and arrest a free fall within the relationship that had raised issues in regards to…
U.S. Ambassador to Russia Visits Jailed WSJ Reporter Evan Gershkovich The U.S. ambassador to Russia met Friday with Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Avenue Journal reporter jailed in Moscow, a number of days after his household appealed to the United Nations for assist in bringing him house. The U.S. embassy in Russia confirmed the go to…
South African Inquiry Rebuts U.S. Cost on Russian Arms An investigation by the South African authorities has concluded that weapons weren’t loaded onto a Russian vessel below American sanctions that docked close to Cape City final yr, contradicting accusations by U.S. officers that South Africa had supplied arms for the battle in Ukraine, President Cyril…
Maria Ressa, Philippine Journalist, Is Acquitted of Final Tax Cost The Nobel Prize-winning journalist Maria Ressa on Tuesday was acquitted by a Philippine court docket of tax fraud, the newest authorized victory in her struggle for the survival of her information website Rappler, which has come to symbolize the precariousness of the nation’s press freedoms….
We Requested Readers to Spend the Summer season Watching Birds. Right here’s What Occurred. One Saturday morning in June, Amy Simmons noticed some sparrows flitting round a coastal marsh in Maine. She and her two companions, all devoted bird-watchers, rapidly recognized one of many foraging birds as a Nelson’s sparrow, a small, spherical chook with…
‘They Blew Our Lives Up’: South Sudanese Flee Battle in Sudan Nyamut Gai misplaced every thing 4 years in the past when armed militias stormed by her village in South Sudan, a landlocked African nation stricken by civil struggle, famine and flooding. Determined, she and her household fled nearly 600 miles north throughout the border…