Prosecutors accuse the British man of handing over documents to Russian agents for cash, amid growing concerns that Germany is increasingly caught in the cross hairs of international spying.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan said two Myanmar citizens living in New York plotted over the past month to attack and potentially kill the country’s ambassador to the United Nations.
Violence in Israel Challenges Bidenâs âStand Backâ Approach
The president came to office seeing little opportunity to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He may now be forced to get more involved.
Airstrikes in Gaza on Tuesday. Calls are growing in the Democratic Party for President Biden to play a more active role in the region as violence escalates.Credit.via Agence France-Presse â Getty Images
May 11, 2021Updated 8:51 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON â President Biden took office in January with little interest in pursuing an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, for understandable reasons.
President Bill Clinton hosted an Israeli-Palestinian summit during his first year in the White House. President Barack Obama appointed a Middle East peace envoy on his second full day in office. And before his swearing-in, Donald J. Trump vowed to secure an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal âwhich no one else has managed to get.â
State Department authorizes U.S. embassies to fly the Pride Flag.
A pride march outside of the Brooklyn Museum last June to call attention to violence against transgender people.Credit.Demetrius Freeman for The New York Times
April 23, 2021, 11:34 a.m. ET
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken has authorized U.S. diplomatic missions across the world to fly the rainbow pride flag on the same pole as the American flag at embassies and consulates, according to a State Department cable reviewed by The New York Times.
The action reversed a decision by the Trump administration, which rejected requests from embassies to raise it on their flag poles during the month of June, which in the United States and many other countries is Pride month.