Category: World

Government officials from the United States and Mexico met virtually today, April 19, 2024, for the U.S.-Mexico High-Level Economic Dialogue (HLED) Mid-Year Review.  HLED principals discussed joint accomplishments and progress on the dialogue’s ongoing workstreams since the third HLED Ministerial in Washington, D.C. on September 29, 2023.  The U.S. delegation was led by Under Secretary […]

UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTOffice of Press Relations For Immediate ReleaseApril 19, 2024 PRESS RELEASE USAID Expands Burden Reduction Program to Streamline Operations for Implementing Partners, Private Sector Partners, and Job Applicants Today, USAID announced that it is launching the next phase of its Burden Reduction Program, focused on reducing bureaucratic burdens for implementing […]

UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTOffice of Press Relations For Immediate ReleaseApril 19, 2024 Administrator Samantha Power at a Democracy Delivers Initiative Event Washington, DC ADMINISTRATOR SAMANTHA POWER: Thank you, Ambassador [Jacques] Pitteloud, for that introduction. I deeply appreciate your partnership, and the cooperation of your government, in helping drive more attention, and more resources, to […]

To “widen” or to “deepen”. This has been one of the longstanding dilemmas throughout European Union (EU) history, and a perennial sticking point in the unending process of European integration. In its time, the UK championed a wider EU, while France pushed for a deeper one. The British were heavily invested in the single market, […]

In the eastern Japanese city of Naka stands a six-storey-high tower that is far from being an ordinary building.  The device inside the cylindrical steel structure is called a tokamak. It’s designed to hold swirling superheated gases called plasmas at up to 200 million degrees Celsius – more than 10 times hotter than the sun’s core. […]

The Department of State, the United States Agency for International Development, and the Department of Commerce, in partnership with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Government of Ukraine, hosted the second U.S.-Ukraine Partnership Forum on April 17 at the Chamber headquarters in Washington, D.C. During her keynote address, Special Representative for Ukraine’s Economic Recovery Penny Pritzker highlighted the importance of solidifying the foundation of Ukraine’s […]

A 16-year-old boy has been charged with a terrorism offence for allegedly stabbing an Assyrian church bishop in Sydney during a church service, Australian police said on Friday, as investigations continued into a riot after the knife attack. Police from the joint counter terrorism team questioned the boy, who is in a hospital under police […]

Administrator Samantha Power Meets With Armenian Diaspora The below is attributable to Spokesperson Jessica Jennings:‎ Today, Administrator Samantha Power met with representatives of the Armenian Assembly of America (AAA) at their annual advocacy summit. The Administrator reinforced USAID’s unwavering commitment to Armenia’s democratic development, trade and transit diversification, territorial integrity, and sovereignty.  Administrator Power also […]

Washington, DCApril 17, 2024 ADMINISTRATOR SAMANTHA POWER: Thank you so much, Ambassador [Oksana Markarova]. Couldn’t agree more with the Prime Minister [Denys Shmyhal] and his words about you. Great person, great place. We hope this week, especially, if this national security supplemental goes through [inaudible]. And I want to join you in thanking the members of […]