US President Donald Trump announced that the United States would terminate all trade talks with Canada due to Canada's digital services tax on US tech companies.
The United States’ recalibration of its Africa strategy signals a stark departure from decades of broad based engagement towards a narrower, cost-driven approach focused largely on security.
Confusion and skepticism surrounded a surprise ceasefire announcement, as a senior Iranian official told CNN that Tehran had not received any formal proposal from the United States and saw no reason to halt hostilities with Israel or Washington.
France, on Sunday, expressed concerns after the strikes carried out by the US against three nuclear sites in Iran and said that "it was not all involved in these strikes or in the planning of these strikes".
The United States has denied any involvement in Israel's recent strikes against Iran, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio stating that the operation was unilateral and undertaken by Israel.
On Tuesday evening, a group of militants detonated a car bomb next to the house of the Defense Minister, triggering a five-hour gun battle and leaving 12 dead,
The combined forces of South Korea and the US have annually staged the summertime command post drills around mid-August, which North Korea has denounced as a dress rehearsal for invasion.
Biden's remarks came against the backdrop of waning vaccination rates in the country despite wide availability of the shots, and as the spread of the more transmissible Delta variant caused a worrisome uptick in caseloads.
Data for children ages five to 11 could come sometime in September, and depending on the findings, Pfizer told CNN that it could ask the FDA to authorise emergency use of the vaccine that same month.
The intense heat wave in northwest US and Canada is attributed to a heat dome-like condition created by atmospheric high pressure.
