Biden administration officials are coming under increasing pressure to lift restrictions on exports of supplies that vaccine makers in India say they need to expand production amid a devastating surge in Covid-19 deaths there.
Southeast Asian leaders met Myanmar’s top general and coup leader in an emergency summit in Indonesia, and are expected to press calls for an end to violence by security forces that has left hundreds of protesters dead as well as the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and other political detainees.
Boris Johnson will warn world leaders not to “throw away the chance to preserve our planet”, as he joins heads of government from around the globe at an Earth Day summit called by the US president.
Mr Biden was speaking after Chauvin, a former police officer, was found guilty of third-degree murder, second-degree manslaughter, and second-degree unintentional murder.
Derek Chauvin has been convicted of murder for killing George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes, a crime that prompted waves of protests in support of racial justice in the US and across the world.
West Point has expelled eight cadets and is holding back another 51 students for a year after finding evidence of cheating on a scale not seen in more than four decades.
The White House has announced Joe Biden plans to lift his predecessor Donald Trump’s historically low cap on refugees by next month, after the US leader was criticised for initially moving only to expand the eligibility criteria for resettlements.
Ukraine and Russia have long had an uneasy relationship after Moscow annexed the Crimean peninsula in 2014. But, in recent weeks, violence between Russian-backed Crimean separatists and Ukrainian troops has broken out. Moscow has sent thousands of troops near the border.
Chinese commentators have accused the United States of “cognitive warfare” after the US Navy released a puzzling photo.
SpaceX has attached a Starlink receiver to its latest Starship prototype, allowing the Mars-bound rocket to have high-speed internet access.
