Bloomberg The Biden administration’s first evacuation flight for Afghans who aided American and other coalition forces has arrived in the US, as the administration steps up efforts to relocate interpreters, other military assistants and their families ahead of a final troop withdrawal. The plane, carrying more than 200 people, landed at Fort Lee in Virginia, where passengers were to undergo ...

Bloomberg The final day for Malaysia’s special parliament sitting on Monday has been postponed indefinitely because of the risk from a recent outbreak of Covid cases. The deferment follows a risk assessment by the health ministry, which found that the parliament’s locality is at risk of the spread of infections, according to a letter from the House of Representatives secretary ...

Bloomberg President Joe Biden hosted a meeting at the White House with Cuban-American leaders to discuss the largest demonstrations in decades that erupted in Cuba earlier this month. The meeting came the same day the administration announced sanctions against a Cuban police force and its leaders in response to violence against the demonstrators. Biden told the group that additional penalties ...