In a rare victory for the pro-choice movement in an increasingly bitter battle over reproductive rights, US President Joe Biden's administration ruled Thursday that abortion pills would be available by mail permanently, not just during the Covid pandemic.

Amid the pro-life vs pro-choice fight, Biden administration makes access to abortion pills easier

Pakistan skipped US President Joe Biden's democracy summit for many reasons. This includes China's diktat and Pakistan not being invited to the plenary session.

What moved Pakistan to skip US President Joe Biden's democracy summit?

Nearly 700 scientists and engineers, including 21 Nobel laureates, asked President Joe Biden on Thursday to use his forthcoming declaration of a new national strategy for managing nuclear weapons as a chance to cut the US arsenal by a third and to declare, for the first time, that the United States would never be the first to use nuclear weapons in a conflict.

Hundreds of scientists ask Biden to cut the US nuclear arsenal

Democrats privately conceded Wednesday that they were all but certain to delay consideration of President Joe Biden’s $2.2 trillion social policy bill in the Senate until 2022, missing a self-imposed Christmas deadline as negotiations with a key centrist holdout, Sen.

Democrats ready to punt social policy bill to 2022 as Manchin balks

US President Joe Biden arrived in Kentucky Wednesday to survey the damage caused by last week's tornadoes, which caused death and destruction in several communities.

US President Joe Biden visits Kentucky to survey tornado damage

US President Joe Biden walked through the battered remains of Kentucky cities to get a first-hand view of the destruction wrought by one of the deadliest tornado outbreaks which killed dozens and left thousands stranded.

Kentucky storm damage | President Joe Biden consoles tornado survivors

At the Summit of Democracies today, PM Narendra Modi said social media should empower democracies, and not undermine them. From Myanmar to Bangladesh & even in the US - platforms are weakening democracies. Palki Sharma asks: Will Biden rein in social media giants?

Gravitas: Will Biden ask social media giants to protect democracies?

US president Joe Biden s facing mounting criticism from the American public, this is as per the latest poll conducted. Biden's approval rating has now fallen to the lowest level over covid handling and increasing gun violence.

Joe Biden faces lowest approval ratings, criticism over inflation, covid handling

US President Joe Biden’s nominee for envoy to India, Eric Michael Garcetti, has vowed to double-down America’s efforts to strengthen “India’s capacity to secure its borders and defend its sovereignty” while noting that New Delhi is situated in a “tough neighbourhood”.

India in a tough neighbourhood, will help secure its borders, says Biden’s envoy pick Garcetti

Russian President Vladimir Putin is all set to meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, their second virtual session this year, days after both the countries were left out of a democracy summit organised by US president Joe Biden.

Xi-Putin meet lined up after both Russia, China left out of Biden's democracy summit

US President Joe Biden is facing significant skepticism from the American public, with his job approval rating lagging across a range of major issues, including handling of inflation, COVID-19 and gun violence.

Joe Biden faces lowest approval ratings yet in handling of inflation, COVID-19

Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani has slammed the Western powers for playing a blame game over the 2015 nuclear deal. According to him, "Some actors persist in their blame game habit, instead of real diplomacy.

'Diplomacy is a two-way street': Iran slams West for playing blame game over 2015 nuclear deal

United Nations President Joe Biden has asked the government's agency Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to find out whether the deadly tornadoes were caused by the climate crisis.

US President Joe Biden asks EPA to probe role of climate crisis in deadly tornadoes

Tornadoes in US: Before and after satellite images show massive destruction

Rescue teams are working in a desperate search for survivors in the aftermath of devastating tornadoes in the United States that left at least 83 people dead and dozens still missing.

'It looks like a bomb has exploded': Survivors tell horrifying experiences of 'deadliest' tornadoes in US

US President Joe Biden days after a virtual meet with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, warns Russia over military build-up at Ukraine border amid invasion fears.

US President Joe Biden: Russia will pay a terrible price if it invades Ukraine

The biggest question in American politics right now is how did Joe Biden become so unpopular? The President's ratings have taken a big hit over the last few months.

How did Joe Biden become so unpopular?

Former US president Donal Trump went on a tirade against his ‘close ally and friend’ Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s former prime minister, accusing him of ‘disloyalty’ after he had congratulated Joe Biden for winning the 2020 presidential elections.

Trumps blasts ‘disloyal and ungrateful’ Netanyahu for congratulating Biden after presidential polls

Joe Biden hosted the murky event of his administration. He has dubbed it as the summit of democracies. Watch this video for more.

Joe Biden hosts democracy summit

A few days before President Joe Biden’s Summit for Democracy, a virtual meeting of more than 100 countries that opened Thursday, the Chinese foreign ministry released a stinging report about the American democratic system.

Biden rallies global democracies as US hits a 'rough patch'

US President Joe Biden's Summit for Democracy had made a lot of promises. It hoped to shine a spotlight on the importance of election integrity. It also hoped to counter authoritarian regimes, but did it achieve the same?

WION-VOA Co-Production: US President Joe Biden hosts 2-day virtual Democracy Summit

The president of the United States has commenced his ambitious democracy summit, it's a two-day long virtual affair with leaders from over 100 democracies logging in for their speeches. On day one, Joe Biden called on countries to make concrete commitments to reaffirm their democratic values.

Joe Biden hosts summit for democracy, leaders from 100 countries invited

US president Joe Biden has set out an ambitious plan and aims to make the US federal government carbon neutral by 2050. He aims to do this via executive order that aims at focusing on host of clean energy initiatives.

US president Joe Biden sets zero emissions target, will make his government carbon-neutral by 2050

Pakistan has decided to skip Joe Biden's democracy summit without offering a reason. Did China order Imran Khan to reject Biden's invite? Has Pakistan surrendered its foreign policy & sovereignty to Beijing? Palki Sharma tells you.

Gravitas: Did China order Pakistan to skip Biden's summit?

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