TOKYO, May 22 (Xinhua) -- U.S. PresidentJoe Biden arrived in Japan on Sunday, as about 750 protesters took to the streets here against the planned U.S.-Japan summit and the summit of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (the Quad) ...Japanese public opinion, however, seemingly does not favor the IPEF too much ... Enditem .
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Helsinki had refused to pay its bill in rubles, which Moscow had demanded in a bid to side-step financial sanctions and force European energy clients to prop up his central bank ... some other EU countries more dependent on Russian gas plan to open ruble accounts with Gazprom's bank.
KABUL. Female presenters on Afghanistan's leading television channels went on air on Saturday without covering their faces, defying a Taliban order that they conceal their appearance to comply with the group's austere brand of Islam...Previously, they had only been required to wear a headscarf ... ....
Lying is effectively a standard practice for diplomats in “real world,” Michael McFaul says ... The veteran diplomat made the revelation in a public policy forum, the semi-annual Munk Debates, earlier this month in Toronto ... Read more NATO expansion ‘not a threat’ – Biden ... “We kept saying that, over and over again.” ... .
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Former US PresidentGeorge W Bush suffered an unfortunate slip of the tongue last week when he condemned "the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq" before correcting himself to say “I mean, Ukraine” ... No such weapons were ever found. The US subsequently admitted that its intelligence was wrong ... Bruce Golding. .
The number of outpatient and emergency services at tertiary and secondary medical institutions in Shanghai in May has bounced back to 40 percent of the same time period last year as the COVID-19 epidemic wave continues to wane in the city, a health official said on Sunday ...