US vows full military defense of allies against North Korea
The United States will make full use of its military capabilities, โincluding nuclear, conventional and missile defense," to defend its allies Japan and South Korea, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said Tuesday as she warned North Korea against escalating its provocations. Sherman said North Korea's repeated firings of ballistic missiles and artillery in recent weeks were provocative military actions.
news.yahoo.comUS stresses allied cooperation in face of N. Korea threats
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman has met with her counterparts from South Korea and Japan, emphasizing the U.S. commitment to defend its allies and trilateral security cooperation to confront an accelerating nuclear threat from North Korea.
U.S.-Russia talks notch minor progress on arms control but remain stuck on NATO expansion
Russia's deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov, who led the Russian delegation, told reporters after the nearly eight-hour meeting that the talks were "very professional" and repeated that Moscow had no intention of attacking Ukraineโ.
cbsnews.comU.S.-Russia talks notch minor progress on arms control but remain stuck on NATO expansion
Russia's deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov, who led the Russian delegation, told reporters after the nearly eight-hour meeting that the talks were "very professional" and repeated that Moscow had no intention of attacking Ukraineโ.
cbsnews.comState yanks Sherman Hospitalโs Level II trauma standing in wake of anesthesiologist shortage at the Elgin facility
Advocate Sherman Hospitalโs designation as a Level II trauma center was revoked Friday by the Illinois Department of Public Health in the wake of an anesthesiologist shortage that has had the Elgin-based facility sending emergency cases to other hospitals.
chicagotribune.comUS diplomat worried about pandemic, food supply in N Korea
Americaโs No. 2 diplomat on Friday expressed sympathy for North Koreans facing hardships and food shortages linked to the pandemic, and renewed calls for the North to return to talks over its nuclear program. โWe all feel for the people of the DPRK, who are indeed facing all the most difficult circumstances given the pandemic, and what it means as well for their food security,โ U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman told reporters in Seoul, referring to North Koreaโs official name, the Democratic Peopleโs Republic of Korea.
news.yahoo.comNo. 2 US diplomat Sherman to visit China as tensions soar
Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman will travel to China this weekend on a visit that comes as tensions between Washington and Beijing soar on multiple fronts, senior U.S. officials said Wednesday. Sherman will meet Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and others in the northeastern city of Tianjin on Sunday as part of her current trip to Asia, which also is taking her to Japan, South Korea and Mongolia, the officials told reporters. Sherman will be the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit China since President Joe Biden took office, though Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan met Wang and veteran Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi in Anchorage, Alaska, in March for what proved to be a contentious first exchange.
news.yahoo.comCambodia limits US diplomat's scrutiny of controversial base
The U.S. Embassy in Cambodia says one of its diplomats was not allowed to freely inspect a naval base on the Gulf of Thailand despite permission to do so to assuage Washingtonโs concerns about Chinaโs military presence there
washingtonpost.com'DWI Dude' attorney sentenced for scamming drug traffickers
A Texas lawyer known as the โDWI Dudeโ has been sentenced to more than 15 years in federal prison for falsely promising Colombian drug traffickers he'd get their charges reduced or dismissed in exchange for cash, prosecutors said. Jamie Balagia, 65, was sentenced Monday to 188 months in federal prison. According to federal prosecutors, Balagia conspired with a private investigator in Florida and an attorney in Colombia to scam Colombian drug traffickers into paying โattorney feesโ for acting as intermediaries with government officials who they said would accept bribes to dismiss criminal charges or reduce prison sentences.
news.yahoo.comTrouble at home may change Biden's hand in Iran nuke talks
She was speaking of U.S. foreign objectives overall, including the Iran deal. Biden's first priority for renewed talks is getting both Iran and the United States back in compliance with the nuclear deal, which offered Iran relief from sanctions in exchange for Iran accepting limits on its nuclear material and gear. โIt would be a first step.โBut Biden also faces pressure both from Democrats and Republican opponents of the Iran deal. The United States' European allies will be eager to help Biden wrack up a win on the new Iran talks if possible, Nasr said. Besides tapping Sherman for his administration, Biden has called back William Burns, who led secret early talks with Iran in Oman, as his CIA director.
ICE raids sweep up 680 undocumented immigrants across Mississippi
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers carry out a raid as part of Operation Cross Check in Sherman, Texas, on June 20, 2019. Immigration enforcement authorities raided food processing plants across Mississippi on Wednesday, picking up 680 workers in what was being billed as the biggest single-day, one-state sweep in U.S. history, officials said. The raids hit seven plants in six cities, and most of the workers arrested are Latino. Albence told The Associated Press that the raids could be the largest such operation thus far in any single state. The detained workers were expected to be processed at a hangar at the Mississippi National Guard in Flowood, near Jackson.
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