At an international event in Hiroshima, Kishida and Obama urge for a nuclear-free world

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and former US President Barack Obama urged for a nuclear-free world on Saturday, amid Russian threats to deploy nuclear weapons in the Ukraine conflict and North Korea's pursuit of a nuclear arsenal.

They made the request in separate statements to the in...

US SUPREME COURT TURNS DOWN TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S PLEA TO SCRAP OBAMACARE

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• It was liberal Justice Stephen Breyer, who authored the decision

• Encouraging more Americans to reap benefits out of Obamacare, the US President Joe Biden said "it is time to move forward and keeping building on this landmark law." 

FORMER US PRESIDENT OBAMA CONFIRMS US MILITARY HAS FOOTAGE OF MYSTERIOUS FLYING OBJECTS

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• On James Corden’s ‘The Late Late Show’, the two-time American President said there is an evidence of objects in the sky and we know exactly what they are

• In last couple of months, several videos have surfaced online, including a recen...

WTO OFFICIAL SAYS US APPEALED AGAINST TRADE BODY'S DECISION IN SOUTH KOREA TRADE DISPUTE

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• In the month of January, a WTO panel had recommended that the duties imposed on South Korea, four grades of steel in 2016 and on large transformers in 2012 need to be revised

• This decision made by the US to appeal against the WTO decision is seen as an...

FORMER US FIRST LADY MICHELLE OBAMA WILL BE INDUCTED INTO NATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME

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• Along with the former US first lady, this list includes author Octavia Butler, who lost her life in 2006, Rebecca Halstead, poet Joy Harjo, artist Judy Chicago and late activist Emily Howland

• The National Women’s Hall of Fame website said “...

‘WAFFLES + MOCHI': MICHELLE OBAMA’S NEW SHOW ON NETFLIX

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• The 10-episode cooking show is part of a multiyear producing deal that the former US First Lady and her husband, have with the streaming service

• Waffles + Mochi features Michelle Obama alongside few kids as they discover, cook and munch on the food fro...

THE UNITED STATES IS NOT A BANANA REPUBLIC: US SECRETARY OF STATE MIKE POMPEO

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• The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said “The slander reveals a faulty understanding of banana republics and of democracy in America.”

• The former US Presidents Barack Obama and George W Bush had condemned these attacks and accused Preside...

US CAPITOL VIOLENCE INCITED BY TRUMP SAYS OBAMA

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• Obama said “History will rightly remember today’s violence at the Capitol, incited by a sitting president who has continued to baselessly lie about the outcome of a lawful election”

• “For two months now, a political party and its...

TERROR GROUP al-Qaida AFFILIATE WAS KNOWINGLY FUNDED BY U.S. UNDER OBAMA: REPORT

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• The report is based on the investigation made into the Obama administration's approval of a $200,000 grant to a US evangelical aid organisation World Vision for the al-Qaida affiliate, Islamic Relief Agency

• This probe was started in the year 2019 a...

PRESIDENT TRUMP IS ABSOLUTELY OPEN TO TAKE CORONAVIRUS VACCINE SAYS THE WHITE HOUSE

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• The White House on Wednesday said the President Trump is absolutely open to take COVID-19 vaccine but his priority remains frontline workers and the most vulnerable

• Trump has the continued protective effects of the monoclonal antibody cocktail that she...

“THE UNITED STATES WILL REJOIN THE PARIS AGREEMENT ON DAY ONE OF MY PRESIDENCY”: BIDEN

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• President Trump had announced the withdrawal in 2017, though the country officially withdrew from the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change on November 4, this year

• Biden said the United States will rejoin the Paris Agreement on day one of my presiden...

OBAMA, BUSH, CLINTON ALONG WITH PRESIDENT-ELECT BIDEN VOW TO TAKE COVID VACCINE ON CAMERA

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• Biden in his recent interview said he is willing to be vaccinated in public after government approval of vaccines as it’s important to communicate to the American people it’s safe

• Former American President Obama during his interview with Si...

BARACK OBAMA SAYS DRAKE HAS HIS OFFICIAL APPROVAL TO PLAY HIM IN POTENTIAL BIOPIC

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• Former United States President, Barack Obama has said that rapper Drake has his official stamp of approval whenever he is ready to play him in a potential project

• Obama also revealed not only him but also his daughters are in favor of watching Drake on...

ANTONY BLINKEN SAYS INDIA HAS TO BE A KEY PARTNER IN BATTLING CHINA

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• The Democratic President would work closely with India after taking charge of the office in January in order to renew democratic relations between the two nations said Blinken

• Since May 6, Chinese PLA soldiers are continuously crossing the LAC which ev...

JOE BIDEN: THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IN THE U.S. HISTORY TO WIN 80 MILLION PLUS VOTES

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• According to the reports, at least 80 million people have voted in favor of the Democratic presidential candidate in the recently conducted elections

• Joe Biden had already broken the record of most number of votes which was held by then-presidential ca...

JAKE SULLIVAN: THE NEXT WHITE HOUSE NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER

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• Sullivan, a long-time aide to Biden has an extensive foreign policy background and has previously served as his national security adviser during the second term of President Barack Obama

• Sullivan was also a part of the delegation of U.S. officials that...

INDIAN-AMERICAN MALA ADIGA: THE POLICY DIRECTOR OF NEXT FIRST LADY JILL BIDEN

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• Starting as a counsel to the associate attorney general in the Obama administration, Ms Adiga has previously served as a senior adviser to Jill Biden

• Ms Adiga has also served as the director for Higher Education and Military Families at the Biden Found...

JOE BIDEN'S CLIMATE PLAN: KEY FOR THE U.S. AUTO INDUSTRY

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• Biden is likely to implement his policies to step up electric vehicle production, offer incentives for EVs, bring down carbon emissions along with providing jobs in the ailing industry courtesy of the COVID-19 pandemic

• Primary objective of the Joe Bide...

BIDEN NOW HAS MORE VOTES THAN ANY OTHER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IN U.S. HISTORY

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• The Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has already broken a record which was earlier set by his fellow Democrat and former US President Barack Obama in the year 2008

• Biden as of November 4 had secured more than 70.7 million votes, more than an...

AMERICA NEEDS FOUR MORE YEARS OF PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYS U.S. VP MIKE PENCE

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• Pence said “it’s a movement of everyday Americans from every walk of life and here in Pennsylvania, you believe we could be strong again.”

• In an election rally organised in a suburb of Pittsburgh, West Mifflin, the US vice president s...