Tensions rise as President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping participated in a lengthy call that focused heavily on Taiwan and Speaker Nancy Pelosi's proposed visit to the self-governing island.
CNN's Will Ripley reports from Taiwan on the local reaction to the call.
Thank you @POTUS for the new defense aid package for Ukraine. Critically important, powerful arms will save our soldiers' lives, speed up the liberation of our land from the Russian aggressor. I appreciate the strategic friendship between our nations. Together to victory! 🇺🇦🤝🇺🇸
⚡️Media: Kyiv court changes life sentence of Russian soldier to 15 years.
A Kyiv court on July 29 sentenced 21-year-old Russian soldier Vadim Shishimarin to 15 years in prison for killing a civilian in Sumy Oblast during Russia's retreat on Feb. 28, Suspilne reports.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) July 29, 2022
In a moment when Putin has shattered peace in Europe and attacked the very tenets of the rules-based order, the United States and our Allies are stepping up to support Ukraine and boost our defenses.
U.S. President Joe Biden said on Saturday that Russia's invasion of Ukraine threatened to unravel global security, and that the world's democracies must prepare for a long fight against autocracy.
Ukrainian
officials have alleged that on July 17, 2014, a phone call was made at
4:40 p.m. Kyiv time, 20 minutes after the crash of Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 MH17, by Bezler who reports to a person identified by Ukraine’s SBU as Vasili Geranin,
a colonel in the main intelligence department of the general
headquarters of the armed forces of the Russian Federation, regarding
the shooting down of a plane that fell beyond a city of Yenakievo
July 10th post 2014 Former Putin adviser Andrey Illarionov,
senior fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington, DC, estimates that
at least 2,000 Russian intelligence officials are operating in eastern
Ukraine
According
to this purported report about the March referendum to annex Crimea,
the turnout of Crimean voters was only 30 percent. And of these, only
half voted for the referendum–meaning only 15 percent of Crimean
citizens voted for annexation.
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international diplomatic crisis between Georgia and Russia began in
2008, ..... reveal the details of a planned military invasion of South
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⚡️ Borrell: Russia wants to turn Ukraine into new Syria.
“If a strong country could impose by force, on a neighbor that is not threatening him, whatever he wants, passing through war crimes…destroying a country, then the whole world is in danger,” Borrell said.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) March 26, 2022
US President Joe Biden has announced details of his plan to raise an additional $2.5 trillion in corporate taxes over the next 15 years. The money will be used to help fund a massive investment in America's infrastucture.
The proposal may also boost efforts to overhaul the global system for taxing multinational companies, and in particular technology giants. Plans to establish or expand a global minimum corporate tax, and reallocate firms' tax liabilities based on where they make money could help secure agreement in ongoing negotiations on the issue at the OECD.
CNN's Gary Tuchman speaks with undecided voters in North Carolina about who they thought won the final presidential debate of the 2020 election between President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden.
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