Morning brief: US says India has vibrant democracy, Biden calls Xi a 'dictator', and more
Morning news brief: Here's a look at the top stories.
With Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi currently in the United States for a state visit, the White House said on Wednesday (June 21) that India has a vibrant democracy, adding the two countries would continue to work on their bilateral relations.
US President Joe Biden on Tuesday called his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping a "dictator", a day after Xi met US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Addressing a fundraiser event in California, Biden said Xi was ‘very embarrassed’ when a Chinese spy balloon flying over sensitive American sites was shot down.
After meeting Indian PM Modi, Elon Musk responded to Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's claim that the Indian government threatened to boot out the social media giant. “Twitter doesn't have a choice but to obey local governments. If we don't obey local government laws then we will get shut down," Musk said.
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in the United States for a state visit. Amid the much-awaited visit, the White House, in a statement, said that India, like the United States, is a vibrant democracy and that the two nations are going to continue to work on their bilateral relations.
Joe Biden calls Chinese President ‘dictator’ a day after Xi-Blinken meet in Beijing
US President Joe Biden called his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping “a dictator” on Tuesday while attending a fundraiser event in California. Joe Biden also added that Xi was ‘very embarrassed’ when a Chinese spy balloon flying over sensitive American sites was shot down.
Twitter boss Elon Musk after meeting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at theNew York Palace Hotel in New York City on Tuesday commented on the recent statements made by his predecessor Jack Dorsey. Twitter founder andformer CEO Dorsey had recently claimed that the social media platform received threats of being booted out of Indiaafter not accepting the request to block certain accounts at the peak of the farmers' protest by the government.
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Former CNN producer John Griffin was sentenced to more than 19 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl, revealed prosecutors. Griffin earlier pleaded guilty to child sex charges last December as a part of a plea deal which saw two other counts of child sex charges initially filed against him dropped.
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