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We would like to change the European Union's relations with Russia to a more predictable one, said the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, when asked in Brussels what she expects from the meeting of the presidents of Russia and the USA in Geneva.more

Bars at full capacity. No masks for vaccinated Disneyland goers. Fans sitting side-by-side at Giants and Dodgers games. more

Joe Biden, who will meet Vladimir Putin for the first time as US president today, may have to wait for him. Putin's meetings with world leaders often attract attention also because the Russian leader arrives late.more

Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez and GOP Sen. Susan Collins are renewing their call for a 9/11-style commission to study the causes of the COVID-19 and the U.S. response to the pandemic. more

Dangerously hot temperatures across the US south-west will continue to climb this week, reaching higher than 120F (53C) in some areas, exacerbating the region’s already-dire drought conditions and increasing the risk of new fire ignitions.more

Joe Biden left his sunglasses on when he met Queen Elizabeth II, but a former royal butler explains "he should have removed them."more

US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden have met the Queen at Windsor Castle. The visit included a Guard of Honour and afternoon tea with the monarch.more

About 3,000 soldiers and policemen will watch over security during the meeting of US and Russian presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin on June 16 in Geneva. The authorities in Bern also decided, inter alia, about temporary restrictions in the airspace.more

The alliance between the US and the UK should be called an "indestructible relationship", said British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in an interview with the BBC yesterday after his first meeting with US President Joe Biden.more

US President Joe Biden flew to RAF Mildenhall airbase in eastern England yesterday evening, thus embarking on his first overseas trip since his swearing-in to office in January.more

Six years after the legalization of same-sex marriage, this institution is backed by a record 70 percent. Americans, according to a new Gallup study. For the first time in the history of research, this idea is supported by a majority of Republican voters.more

The US and the European Union will support efforts to investigate the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a document cited by the Bloomberg agency. This is the result of persistent doubts as to whether the coronavirus comes from an animal or, for example, it got out of a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan.more

Vice President Kamala Harris arrived in Central America this week on a delicate diplomatic mission: Offer a message of hope to the people of Guatemala and other countries in the region. But discourage them from trying to cross the U.S.’ southern border because they won’t be welcomed on the other side.more

Amazon owner Jeff Bezos said on Monday that he and his brother would join the winner of the online auction for a seat aboard the New Shepard, on its first sub-orbital tourist flight to space this summer.more

US Vice President Kamala Harris's plane was forced to land soon after take-off on Sunday due to a technical problem on her way to Guatemala for her first international trip.more

An unruly passenger who tried breaking into the cockpit of a Delta Air Lines flight bound for Tennessee from California was subdued by cabin crew and fellow passengers as the plane was diverted to New Mexico, officials said.more

American employers, competing for employees, increased employment in May by 449 thousand. people and raised wages. Millions of unemployed citizens stay at home because they have problems looking after their children and fear Covid-19.more

American intelligence officials have found no evidence that aerial phenomena witnessed by Navy pilots in recent years are alien spacecraft, but they still cannot explain the unusual movements that have mystified scientists and the military, according to senior administration officials briefed on the findings of a highly anticipated government report.more

The New York City subway became a target of hackers in April, officials said. The hackers had ties to the Chinese government, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) that supervised the underground railway system.more

Norway said Thursday it had summoned the US embassy's top official in Oslo to lodge an official protest following a report that Washington had spied on Norwegian and other European leaders.more

Human remains have been discovered on a road next to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s home in California. The bones were dug up on May 24 in a road in Montecito, LA during landscaping work, a Santa Barbara Sheriff’s office spokesperson said.more

American cities are taking up the fight against climate change. For this purpose, they employ specialists who are to help in dealing with extreme weather phenomena.more

Millions of Americans could be left without a home soon when the national eviction ban expires this June. In Florida and South Carolina, 25% of renters are behind on their housing payments, whereas in Maine and Kentucky, 6% of adult renters could be evicted this month.more

Two people were killed and over 20 injured in a mass shooting in Miami early Sunday, the Miami-Dade Police Department said in a statement.more

In 2009 in Afganistanu in the middle of Taliban ambush this brave man Sgt. Corey Speck saved life of his Polish colleague severely injured in firing. Yesterday Speck received his full membership in the Polish Army Veterans’ Association.more