US President Joe Biden. | Mandel Ngan/ AFP
A group of over 170 world leaders and Nobel Prize winners have urged United States President Joe Biden to support a waiver proposing to suspend rules of intellectual property rights for Covid-19 vaccines and treatments to boost global vaccination rates. India and South Africa had moved this proposal at the World Trade Organization in October.
The letter, released to the media on Wednesday, said that the World Trade Organization’s waiver was important to bring an end to the Covid-19 pandemic. It said that the vaccine and related technology should be shared openly which can be done by the World Health Organization’s Covid-19 Technology Access Pool.
Ex-Afghani Adviser Expects Taliban Will Forgo Peace Talks With Ashraf Ghani
On 4/15/21 at 12:45 PM EDT
In the days leading up to a United Nations-led summit on Afghanistan s peace process, a former adviser to the Afghan government said he does not expect the cooperation of the Taliban, which has refused to attend any conference while foreign troops are still on the ground.
Responding to President Joe Biden s Wednesday announcement of a May 1-September 11 plan to withdrawal 2,500 U.S. troops from Afghanistan, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said on Twitter that problems will certainly increase if the U.S. fails to meet a May 1 deadline established under President Donald Trump.
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China said it would exchange views with the United States on cooperation on climate change
US climate envoy John Kerry is visiting China for what Beijing said would be a four-day trip, as the two countries seek cooperation over the environment despite acrimony on other fronts.
In the first trip to China by a Biden administration official, the former secretary of state will be in Shanghai before travelling onto the South Korean capital Seoul.
His trip comes in preparation for President Joe Biden s virtual climate summit next week, to which the US leader has invited both Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Libyan Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibeh and a delegation of ministers will make their first visit to Turkey on Monday since taking office last month, the Turkish presidency said on Sunday.
Libya’s new unity government was sworn in on March 15 from two warring administrations that had ruled eastern and western regions, completing a smooth transition of power after a decade of violent chaos.
Turkey had backed the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) against the eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA), which was supported by Russia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and France.
Turkey’s presidency said Dbeibeh will hold a two-day visit upon President Tayyip Erdogan’s invitation, adding that he and Erdogan would chair the first meeting of the Turkey-Libya High Level Strategic Cooperation Council in Ankara.