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Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, calls for an investigation into leaked audio of John Kerry allegedly sharing Israeli military secrets with an Iranian official
GOP lawmakers are expected to press Biden administration climate envoy John Kerry on his dealings with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif during a hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee next Wednesday.
Kerry will testify at the hearing, dubbed Driving a Global, Whole-of-Society Response to Climate Action. The hearing will utilize a hybrid format, raising the possibility that Kerry will appear in person.
The hearing will focus on steps to combat climate change as the Biden administration moves forward with its goal of cutting U.S. carbon emissions in half by 2030. But the event will mark Kerry’s first public appearance since reports surfaced of an audio file in which Zarif purportedly claimed that Kerry had leaked sensitive information about Israel while serving as secretary of state under the Obama a
India has appreciated the Biden administration s decision to support a proposal moved by it and South Africa to temporarily waive some Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) rules amid the coronavirus pandemic. For the past several weeks, India s Ambassador to the US Taranjit Singh Sandhu, along with the diplomats from South Africa, had been meeting US lawmakers and officials regarding the proposal. We appreciate the US administration s announcement today of its support for waiver of IPR for COVID-19 vaccines, Sandhu told PTI on Wednesday. Making the announcement, US Trade Representative Katherine Tai said this is a global health crisis, and the extraordinary circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic call for extraordinary measures.
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Major powers are “rapidly militarizing space” to prepare for a prospective conflict that could have devastating effects in the absence of norms to restrict such weapons, according to a senior Democrat.
“I suspect the norm is ‘he who is strongest will win at the end of the process,’ and we ll all be dead,” California Rep. John Garamendi said during a congressional hearing on space policy.
A quartet of State Department and Pentagon officials appeared before members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and House Armed Services Committee for a discussion of “creating a framework for Rules-Based Order in Space.” Much of the conversation conceded the near-impossibility of establishing that framework, given Chinese and Russian disinterest in serious negotiations over such rules and their enthusiasm for developing capabilities that can threaten American satellites.
Netanyahu in a tree-planting ceremony with Jared Kushner in Jerusalem, Dec. 21, 2020. Photo by Amos Ben Gershom, Israeli government.
It’s clear that the Biden administration isn’t going to roll back a lot of Trump era policies in Israel/Palestine. Besides restoring funding to UNRWA, what has changed? Biden’s not going to move the embassy back or curb settlement expansion in any way. What about the Abraham Accords, which strengthened Israel’s relationships with local autocrats and offered nothing to Palestinians?
They try not to mention it very much, but it’s clear that many Democratic lawmakers think the Abraham Accords are great. Last December