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Joe Biden requests $105 billion from US Congress for Ukraine, Israel aides

Ifeanyi Nwagboso — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 07:31:02 +0000

According to CNN, President Joe Biden has asked more than USD 105 billion in security assistance from Congress for the ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and Israel. The US President made his appeal in a nationally televised Oval Office address, describing the current situation as “an inflection point” in American history. The appeal will assist in [...]

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Zelenskyy tells US Congress he proposed 10-point peace formula to Biden

Ifeanyi Nwagboso — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 09:00:37 +0000

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the US Congress that he proposed a 10-point peace formula during his meeting with President Joe Biden, which he hoped would result in joint security guarantees for decades ahead. Zelenskyy, 44, met President Biden in the Oval Office and jointly addressed a press conference at the White House on Wednesday. [...]

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Zelensky To Deliver Virtual Address To US Congress As War Intensifies

Ifeanyi Nwagboso — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 16:00:48 +0000

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will deliver a virtual address to the U.S. Congress as the Russian war on his country intensifies. Zelensky will speak Wednesday to members of the House and Senate, the Democratic leaders announced. The Congress, our country and the world are in awe of the people of Ukraine, said House Speaker Nancy [...]

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US: Joe Biden Urges Congress To Act Now On Equal Rights Amendment

Ifeanyi Nwagboso — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 21:00:36 +0000

President Joe Biden on Thursday called on Congress to immediately enshrine the Equal Rights Amendment in the U.S. Constitution and formally protect women’s rights nearly a century after lawmakers first raised them. In a statement, Biden urged Congress “to pass a resolution recognizing ratification of the ERA,” saying recent legal analysis showed there was nothing [...]

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Former Trump Adviser Bannon To Plead Not Guilty To Contempt Of Congress

Ifeanyi Nwagboso — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 21:00:31 +0000

Steve Bannon, a one-time adviser to former US President Donald Trump, is pleading not guilty to his contempt of Congress charges, according to a court filing. Bannon, who defied a subpoena by the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot that asked documents and deposition from him, was indicted by a federal grand [...]

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Echoes Of Vietnam In The Second Coming Of The Taliban – Dennis Onakinor

Adewale A. — Sun, 29 Aug 2021 21:55:13 +0000

In the words of the Spanish-born American scholar, George Santayana, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” And by any stretch of the imagination, no group of people in recent memory has failed to remember its past more than the United States of America. Within a span of about five decades, [...]

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Breaking: US Congress Officially Confirms Joe Biden As President

Ifeanyi Nwagboso — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 10:24:24 +0000

The United States Congress has confirmed Joe Biden as the country’s President. Lawmakers who officially confirmed Biden as the country’s 46th president and Kamala Harris as Vice President, were under heavily-armed guard after police regained control of the Capitol in Washington. Biden had defeated the US outgoing President, Donald Trump in the last presidential election. [...]

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Russia reacts to US Congress Sanctions, expels US Diplomats, seizes Properties

Kunle Atiba — Sat, 29 Jul 2017 16:41:52 +0000

In what seems to be a reprisal attacks from Russia on the United States, Russian government has angrily reacted to the sanctions imposed on it by the former Obama administration and another round of sanctions imposed by the US Congress. In a reaction, the Kremlin on Friday ordered the United States to cut hundreds of [...]

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Ike Ekweremadu Petition EU, US Congress Over Forgery Allegations

David Folami — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 10:22:17 +0000

Nigerian Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has petitioned the European Union, US Congress and other foreign missions over his trial for allegedly forging Senate standing rules. In a recent report by Nation Newspaper, the Deputy Senate President wrote the foreign missions on Tuesday, June 28, 2016. Other foreign missions copied in the petition include the [...]

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US Congress relishes greater role in NSA reforms

Ade Adewale — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 16:54:02 +0000

US lawmakers were poised Friday to seize a chance to take the initiative in reforming America's vast digital surveillance network, after President Barack Obama opened the door to them. Under pressure after fugitive intelligence contractor Edward Snowden…

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Why US Congress Must Begin a Full Investigation into NSA Spying

Ade Adewale — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 23:06:22 +0000

Last week, press reports revealed more about the National Security Agency's (NSA) elite hacking unit, the Office of Tailored Access Operations (TAO). The press also helped the public grasp other NSA activities, like how it's weakening encryption. All…

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Americans say US Congress is worst ever: poll

Adewale A. — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 13:43:29 +0000

Two thirds of Americans say the current Congress is the worst ever, while three quarters slammed the "do-nothing" legislature, a CNN/ORC International poll found Thursday. The negative attitudes were expressed toward leading lawmakers on both sides…

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Strip NSA of power to collect phone data records, says Obama review panel

Adewale A. — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 23:21:22 +0000

• Review proposes greater authority for spying on foreign leaders

• Government 'should be banned from undermining encryption'

• Forty-six recommendations in 300-page report released early

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