The U.S. and Iran each have diplomats in Vienna for Tuesday’s negotiations over the 2015 nuclear agreement that Donald Trump abandoned.
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Biden faces Trump’s deadline on Afghanistan troop withdrawal: ‘Any way you cut it, we are headed for a messy outcome’
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Russia, Iran aimed to sway 2020 election through covert campaigns, US intelligence reports
Russia and Iran engaged in multi-faceted, covert influence campaigns aimed at swaying the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, according to a declassified assessment released Tuesday by U.S. intelligence officials.
The Biden administration has reached out to North Korea, seeking to prevent further escalation
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‘Russia is up to its old tricks’: Biden battling COVID-19 vaccine disinformation campaign
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Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman complicit in Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, US report says
Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, Mohammed bin Salman, approved the operation “to capture or kill” Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, according to a newly declassified U.S. intelligence report released Friday.
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Iran nuclear deal: US agrees to meet Iran, world powers in first step for Biden administration
The Biden administration said Thursday it would agree to meet with Iran and other world powers involved in negotiating the 2015 nuclear deal, the first public step toward renewed diplomacy with Tehran.
Republicans grill Biden’s pick for UN ambassador over speech at Confucius Institute at HBCU
Joe Biden’s nominee to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said she regrets speaking in 2019 at a Confucius Institute.
After Putin’s initial snub, Biden talks nukes, cyberattack and poisoning with Russian leader
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Biden secretary of state nominee Blinken agrees China committing ‘genocide’ in treatment of Uyghurs. Takeaways from his confirmation hearing
President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee to be America’s top diplomat vowed to reverse a slew of the Trump administration’s foreign policy positions.