Bloomberg President Joe Biden welcomed Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga to the White House for conversations centred on a growing concern for both leaders: what to do about China. Suga said he and Biden agreed to pursue collaboration on climate change, Covid-19 and the global shortage of semiconductors. But China’s increasingly assertive role in the region loomed large in the ...

Bloomberg Eritrea agreed to start pulling its troops from Ethiopia’s Tigray region, making its first public admission to having troops in the neighboring country, in a letter to the United Nations Security Council. The development follows comments by UN aid chief Mark Lowcock to the Security Council asserting that there was no proof Eritrean forces were withdrawing. “Eritrea and Ethiopia ...

Bloomberg President Joe Biden will keep the historically low refugee cap set by former President Donald Trump for now, going back on a plan to accept many more refugees this year. The president instead signed new order intended to accelerate processing of refugees. The order reallocates slots to make them more readily available to people living in Africa and the ...