Friday 21 January, 2022
“Let there be no doubt at all, if Putin makes this choice, Russia will pay a heavy price,” the US president said.
It comes after the man who held four hostages at the synagogue was identified by US authorities as a British citizen.
Biden argues that the national voting rights bills are vital to preserving US democracy.
Biden flew to Atlanta for a major speech urging reforms that will decide whether the country chooses ‘democracy over autocracy’.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has insisted that talks will yield no progress so long as Russia has a “gun to Ukraine’s head”.
It will mark the latest any president has delivered a State of the Union address.
Covid vaccines are compulsory at businesses that employ more than 100 people, and for health workers at centres getting federal funding.
A series of remembrance events are due to take place to mark the event.
Our columnist looks at US politics a year on from the infamous storming of the US Capitol Building.
Joe Biden will make a speech from inside the Capitol’s Statuary Hall on the anniversary of the 6 January riots.
Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will reportedly speak from inside the Capitol, while Trump live streams from Mar-a-Lago.
The army said Russian separatists had launched three attacks within 24 hours using grenade launchers and small arms.
The White House indicated that Biden would make clear to Putin that a diplomatic path remains open.
A phone call between Biden and Putin is set to take place tomorrow, at the request of the Kremlin.
It comes after Moscow demanded that NATO deny membership to Ukraine and other former Soviet countries.
The Russian president has said NATO should not expand to include Ukraine.
He said Russia “will react toughly to unfriendly steps”, adding that he wanted to underscore that “we have every right to do so”.
The law is the latest in a series intensifying US penalties over China’s alleged abuse of ethnic and religious minorities in the western region.
US gymnast Simone Biles was Time’s sportsperson of the year, and Covid-19 vaccine scientists the Heroes of the Year.
More than 70 people are believed to have been killed in Kentucky alone, many of them workers at a candle factory, while at least six died in an Amazon warehouse in Illinois.
Nearly 100,000 Russian troops have massed on the Ukrainian border.
The US President spoke to his Russian counterpart for two hours by video link yesterday.
Putin came into the meeting seeking guarantees from Biden that the Nato military alliance will never expand to include Ukraine.
Satellite pictures showing massive troop concentrations on Ukraine’s border.
US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin are due to hold talks via video call tomorrow.
The statement underlines the softly-softly approach adopted by the IOC ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
The US President had a colonoscopy as part of a regular health check, the White House said.
The video-link summit took place last night in Washington and early this morning in Beijing.
The appeals court set arguments in the case for 30 November.
Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said he had spoken with senior advisors to US President Biden this week.
The restrictions were first imposed by Donald Trump in March 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic first erupted.
The US president is trying to spend the money quickly to deliver maximum impact to the American people.
Biden had supported the work of a fundraising group in Roscommon.
The election is seen as the first major test of Joe Biden’s political brand.
The official said she had last met US President Joe Biden on Tuesday and they had remained six feet apart.
Biden’s support of abortion rights and same-sex marriage has put him at odds with many US bishops.
He said the remaining files “shall be withheld from full public disclosure” until 15 December next year.
Cronin was nominated for the role of ambassador by Biden in June.
Biden had ruled out mandates in the past but feels the action is now required as almost 70 million Americans remain unvaccinated.
