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UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has said that he hopes the Kashmir issue between India and Pakistan can be solved peacefully. Well, the position of the UN and the resolutions that were taken are the same, remain the same. We have, as you know, a peacekeeping operation there. We are, of course, committed, Guterres said on Friday. I’d offered my good offices several times, and we hope that this is something that can be solved peacefully and that the situation in Kashmir is a situation in which human rights are…

US President Joe Biden has said that Russia will have to “pay a heavy price” if its military units move across the Ukrainian border which will be considered an “invasion”. On Thursday, the Treasury Department announced sanctions on individuals who engaged in influencing activities directed by the Russian government. “This action was part of our ongoing, longstanding efforts to counter Russia’s network of influence efforts and to expose its dangerous, threatening, and ongoing campaign to destabilize Ukraine,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said. In response to a question, she…

President Joe Biden acknowledged that the pandemic has left Americans exhausted and demoralised but insisted at a news conference marking his first year in office that he has outperformed expectations in dealing with it. Facing sagging poll numbers and a stalled legislative agenda, Biden conceded Wednesday he would likely have to pare back his build back better recovery package and instead settle for big chunks of his signature economic plan. He promised to further attack inflation and the pandemic and blamed Republicans for uniting in opposition to his proposals rather…