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☆ Factbox: What is APEC and which leaders are attending Bangkok summit?
  + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +5 min
[1/5] A general view outside of the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center venue during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, at Asoke Junction, in Bangkok, Thailand November 17, 2022. The United States will be the APEC host in 2023. CHINA PRESIDENT XI JINPINGXi met Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Bangkok on Thursday for talks. RUSSIA FIRST DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER ANDREI BELOUSOVBelousov will represent President Valadmir Putin at APEC. PAPUA NEW GUINEA PRIME MINISTER JAMES MARAPEMarape will hold meetings with U.S. State Secretary Antony Blinken.
☆ Vice President Harris is wrapping up her midterm campaign push by meeting with union leaders a day before the elections
  + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Vice President Kamala Harris will meet with union leaders on Monday in California. Along the way, according to a White House official, she is prioritizing meeting with local labor leaders. In May, Harris — along with co-chair Marty Walsh, Biden's Secretary of Labor — welcomed union organizers from the likes of Starbucks and Amazon to the White House. The Biden administration has made clear its intentions to embrace organized labor. Harris "has been focused on reaching women, young people, and communities of color," a White House official said.
☆ North Korea fires ballistic missile in a show of 'defiance' days before Vice President Kamala Harris visits region
  + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( Bethany Dawson | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
North Korea has fired a ballistic missile into the sea. "It's North Korea's way of showing defiance of the [US] alliance," said an analyst at the Rand Corporation. Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy PolicyNorth Korea fired a ballistic missile toward South Korea just days before Vice-President Kamala Harris's visit. It is the most significant deployment yet under a new push by the Biden administration to use the US "strategic assets" to deter North Korea, Reuters reported. On the 29th, she will travel to South Korea, which a senior White House official says is an "opportunity for the Vice President to demonstrate our solidarity with our South Korean allies on the threat posed by the North."
☆ U.S. Vice President Harris to discuss Taiwan's security in Asia
  + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Trevor Hunnicutt | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris holds a roundtable with civil and reproductive rights leaders who are working to protect women's reproductive rights, in the Diplomatic Reception room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, U.S., September 12, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn HocksteinWASHINGTON, Sept 23 (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will discuss Taiwanese security during bilateral meetings with the leaders of Japan and South Korea when she visits the region next week, a senior administration official said on Friday. The conversations with South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will come days after Chinese officials were roiled by an explicit pledge by U.S. President Joe Biden to defend the Chinese-claimed island. read more"We are very much aligned with our partners and this will be an opportunity for the vice president to discuss the recent developments and the way forward with the leaders of both Japan and the Republic of Korea," the official said. Taiwan's government strongly objects to China's sovereignty claims and says only the island's 23 million people can decide its future.
☆ Why Joe Biden thinks he's never too old to be your president
  + stars: | 2022-09-13 | by ( Nicole Gaudiano | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +28 min
As the oldest sitting president, he's raising concerns about how long he can continue governing. Republicans — including Trump — have gleefully seized on Biden's verbal misadventures, such as when he called his vice president "President Harris." President Joe Biden drives the Ford's new all-electric F-150 Lightning in Dearborn, Michigan. Ruggerio described the idea that Joe Biden is diminished or can't remember things as "bull crap." Cox said that while he thinks Biden is "still Joe" and still capable, he worries that Biden's age is a problem.
☆ Vice President Kamala Harris warns the Supreme Court will target the right to contraception and same-sex marriage after overturning Roe v. Wade
  + stars: | 2022-06-27 | by ( Kimberly Leonard | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday. Vice President Harris said she's concerned the court now will target birth control and same-sex marriage. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas "just said the quiet part out loud," Harris added, when he wrote in a concurring opinion that the court should reconsider rulings on contraception and same-sex marriage. On Friday, the conservative majority of the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to uphold a Mississippi ban on abortion after 15 weeks in Dobbs v. Jackson. Thomas was alone in openly calling for other rights to get another look by the Supreme Court.
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