US President Joe Biden spoke Thursday with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, the White House said, making it the first direct communication between the leaders in seven months. They held “a broad, strategic discussion” in which they tackled “areas where our interests converge, and areas where our interests, values and perspectives ...
US Republican senators have called on Congress to press senior Pentagon officials to testify about Washington’s chaotic withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan. In a letter to the Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jack Reed, nine committee Republicans said they “acutely feel the obligation to seek answers” about how 20 ...
