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Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on Monday that he wanted to work with President-elect Joe Biden to strengthen the Japan-US alliance and to secure peace and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific region.
The family of his key adviser on the coronavirus crisis, Vivek Murthy, hails from Hallagere, a village in Karnataka's Mandya district, much to the delight of residents there.
"I am pleased to announce that Christopher C. Miller, the highly respected Director of the National Counterterrorism Centre (unanimously confirmed by the Senate), will be Acting Secretary of Defence, effective immediately."
The United States reported a record number of new COVID-19 cases for the seventh day in a row on Tuesday, according to a Reuters tally, while the number of deaths surged to their highest daily count since August.
Klain served as chief of staff for Biden during Barack Obama’s first term, was chief of staff to Vice President Al Gore in the mid-1990s and was a key adviser on the Biden campaign, guiding Biden’s debate preparations and coronavirus response.
A new round of restrictions is aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus as the infection rate climbed and hospitalisations soared in the state that was the epicentre of the US outbreak in its early stages.
According to data from Johns Hopkins University that, bleak milestone was reached on Monday. And the most recent 1 million infections happened faster than any previous million, in just 10 days.
In February, Trump's administration signed a deal with the Taliban to fully disengage from Afghanistan in exchange for subject to certain security guarantees, while the Taliban holds peace talks with the Afghan government in Doha.
The pair will be at a meeting of the leaders of the 21-nation Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) hosted virtually by Malaysia just two weeks after Trump lost his re-election bid.
According to multiple people familiar with the Biden team’s planning Biden will name Antony Blinken as secretary of state and Linda Thomas-Greenfield as ambassador to the UN.