US President Joe Biden (left) and Antony Blinken, US secretary of state, second left, attend a virtual Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) meeting with leaders of Japan, Australia and India in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, D.C, U.S., on Friday, March 12, 2021. Biden and the other leaders of the Quad countries are meeting for the first time meant to project a common front in the face of China s tussles on the Himalayan border with India, crackdown in Hong Kong and trade reprisals against Australia. - Bloomberg WASHINGTON, March 13 (Reuters): The United States and three of its closest Indo-Pacific partners committed to supplying up to a billion coronavirus vaccine doses across Asia by the end of 2022 at a summit on Friday carefully choreographed to counter China s growing influence.
Happy Thursday and welcome to Overnight Defense. I'm Rebecca Kheel, and here's your nightly guide to the latest developments at the Pentagon, on Capitol Hill and beyond.
Haiti civic leaders and former US diplomat to House Foreign Affairs: Haiti is a mess Jacqueline Charles, The Miami Herald
Mar. 13 Kidnapped women and girls are gang raped and subject to cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment. A federation of influential armed gangs have their demands met by the government, while illegal weapons, banned under a U.S. arms embargo, freely enter the country.
With such a volatile social, economic and political crisis, elections organized under Haitian President Jovenel Moïse will not work and will not be seen as legitimate by the people, three Haiti-born civic leaders and a former U.S. ambassador to the country told the House Foreign Affairs Committee Friday.
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Former US Marine Trevor Reed, charged with attacking police, stands inside a defendants cage during his verdict hearing at Moscow s Golovinsky district court on July 30, 2020. (CNN)Trevor Reed, an American jailed in Russia, was transferred without notice to a different pre-detention center last week and his family has not heard from him since, according to the family spokesperson. On March 2nd, Trevor was taken by two urbane, English speaking FSB agents to a Court ordered evaluation. After that exam, he was inexplicably taken to a different pre-detention center without consular notification and has been held non-comm since in violation of Russia s multilateral obligations, spokesperson Jonathan Franks said.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan are scheduled to meet with diplomat Yang Jiechi, the director of China’s Office of the.