Month: January 2021
Delivering rebuke to Trump, US Senate overrides his veto of defense bill
Chamber votes overwhelmingly to bypass president and approve $740.5 billion National Defense Authorization Act to fund military for fiscal 2021
Read MoreA Look Back At What Happened After The Killing Of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani
One year after the killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, NPR correspondents discuss what happened since and what Iran policy might look like under the Biden administration.
Read MoreWhat The End Of Brexit Means For Trade And Travel Between U.K. And Europe
New Year’s Day marks the start of the new relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union, which will make the borders harder to cross.
Read MoreThe looming questions the Brexit deal didn’t answer – The Washington Post
The looming questions the Brexit deal didn’t answer The Washington Post How Brexit will change travel CNN Post-Brexit Britain arrives Axios Brexit and Boris Johnson’s broken promises mean less independence for the U.K., not more NBCNews.com Why Brexit makes Boris Johnson the new Henry
Read MoreCongress Poised to Apply Banking Regulations to Antiquities Market
Regulators have long worried that the secrecy of the antiquities trade, where buyers and sellers are seldom identified, made it an easy way to launder money.
Read MoreAfter a ‘Rainbow Wave’ in 2020’s Elections, Here’s What the New Class of LGBTQ Lawmakers Expect From a Biden Presidency
When Sarah McBride is sworn in as a Delaware state senator on Jan. 12, she will become the highest-ranking openly transgender publicly-elected official in U.S. history. On that day, she tells TIME she’ll be thinking of her late husband Andrew
Read MoreHezbollah TV denies new Lebanese reservoir will deplete water flow into Israel
After officials express concern over construction to Kan news, al-Manar says report is ‘propaganda,’ and that Lebanon only wishes to benefit from its water sources
Read MoreSome Mexicans struggle to get oxygen amid virus case surge
Some residents of Mexico City are spending the new year in lines waiting to refill oxygen canisters for relatives suffering from COVID-19. The city of nine million has seen a surge in coronavirus infections and the city’s hospitals are 87%
Read MoreSome Mexicans struggle to get oxygen amid virus case surge
Some residents of Mexico City are spending the new year in lines waiting to refill oxygen canisters for relatives suffering from COVID-19. The city of nine million has seen a surge in coronavirus infections and the city’s hospitals are 87%
Read MoreNetanyahu said planning to campaign hard for Arab vote in new election
Visiting Umm al-Fahm, PM says Arabs should be full part of ‘Israeli success story,’ but some in community say they haven’t forgotten his ‘incitement, racism’ against them
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