Nation & World

The United States has started discussing with Niger about bringing back the approximately 1,000 American soldiers from the country, a State Department official confirmed on Monday. This happened after Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell met with Niger’s Prime Minister Ali Lamine Zeine, and they both agreed to start planning the orderly and responsible withdrawal of U.S. troops from Niger, the official told The Hill.

The bill would be “catastrophic” for Iraq’s relations with the West if it passed, one expert said.

The Biden administration is unlikely to ease high-level travel warnings for the People’s Republic of China unless Beijing takes concrete steps to address safety concerns, a senior administration official told The Hill ahead of Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s trip to Beijing this week.  Blinken will raise with Chinese officials steps they must take before…

Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape criticized comments from President Biden last week, during which he implied that his uncle was eaten by cannibals in New Guinea during World War II. The president said during remarks in Pittsburgh on Wednesday that his uncle’s plane was shot down in New Guinea and added, “they never…

Eleven people are missing following storms that battered southern China, state media said Monday, with tens of thousands evacuated away from the torrential downpours. Heavy rain has descended upon the…

The Kremlin cautioned that American support for Ukraine could become a decade-long mistake, and urged the US not to oppose its invasion of the country as it appears that Congress is set to pass a $60 billion aid package. The aid deal comes after months of negotiations, with support for Ukraine wavering among American conservatives as the Russian…