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...Such a move would mark the first known time that the US has held up a potential weapons sale since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7 and the Jewish state launched its retaliatory offensive against the militant...
...He was leaving Cairo even as the US continued to believe that “gaps could have been closed”, Kirby said....
...Monday’s vote marks the first time the US has allowed a Security Council resolution sharply critical of Israel to pass since 2016....
...Dave Calhoun, chief executive, is due to meet lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, including Senator Mark Warner from Virginia, where the company is headquartered....
...That marks the first time the US has placed any conditions on arms deliveries to Israel since the war in Gaza erupted after Hamas’s October 7 attack....
...White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby told reporters on Thursday: “We’ve also been very, very clear: we do not support a war in Lebanon.”...
...“Today, the world Henry Kissinger leaves behind bears his indelible mark,” said Mitch McConnell, the top Republican in the Senate, on Thursday....
...If successful, this offensive would mark a rare battlefield victory for Russia this year....
...US senator Mark Warner said he had seen “a different approach to transparency” from Boeing’s current leadership than from Calhoun’s predecessors as they responded to 737 Max crashes....
...Sergei Shoigu vowed to strengthen military ties with North Korea on a visit to mark the 70th anniversary of the Korean war armistice last week, during which he attended a military parade and a weapons exhibition...
...“This is yet another example of how desperate Mr Putin has become because his war machine is being affected by the sanctions and the export controls,” Kirby added....
...United Airlines’ boss Scott Kirby said yesterday he was rethinking a multibillion-dollar order for new Boeing planes....
...Mark Warner, a Democratic senator from Virginia, wrote on X: “If we don’t honor our commitment to Ukraine, there’s not a single nation — friend or foe — that will fully trust us again.”...
...Democratic Senator Mark Warner from Virginia said on Sunday that the divide on Gaza “has a potential” to hurt Biden with Democrats, just as the president begins gearing up for a re-election campaign....
...Kirby said the statements were “false” and Peskov “is just lying”....
...John Kirby, spokesperson for the White House National Security Council, said the US had not known of the call in advance, adding that “if there’s going to be a negotiated peace it has got to be when President...
...The US chair of the joint chiefs of staff, General Mark Milley, also spoke with his Russian counterpart Valery Gerasimov to raise concerns about the episode....
...work that the Northern Ireland security services have done, and continue to do, to protect all communities, and certainly the people in Northern Ireland,” said US national security council spokesman John Kirby...
...Duda’s call comes as he prepares to host Joe Biden in what is expected to be the key point of the US president’s visit this week to mark the anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine....
...This would mark a second consecutive decline, after a 0.6 per cent drop in November, as higher prices squeeze household budgets....
...aircraft, surface-to-air missiles, armoured vehicles, ballistic missile production equipment”, among other materials and advanced technologies, according to US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby...
...Vladimir Putin has called the situation in Ukraine “extremely complicated” in an apparent attempt to prepare Russia’s population for a long-lasting war as his sputtering invasion nears the 10-month mark....
...On Monday, John Kirby, a spokesman for the US National Security Council, said: “We haven’t received a real solid answer from the Russians as to why they postponed this....
...Academics in Beijing cite Ukraine’s sale to China in 1998 of a hull that became the Asian country’s first aircraft carrier as a mark of their long friendship....
...In doing so, the residents recorded 446 victims by making marks for each one on the crosses. Authorities are continuing work to exhume the bodies....
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