Determine the future for decades to come. Biden will reportedly ask congress for roughly 100 billion on friday. He said the funding will go towards israel and ukraine and Americas National security needs. In his address on thursday biden discussed both Islamist Militant Group hamas and russian president Vladimir Putin. When terrorists dont pay a price for their terror, when dictators dont pay a price for their aggression, they cause more chaos and death and more destruction. They keep going, and the cost and the threats to america and the world keep rising. Bidens speech comes on the heels of his high stakes visit to israel for talks with Prime Minister benjamin netanyahu. Now, netanyahu has visited troops stationed at the border of the gaza strip ahead of an expected ground offensive against hamas. Israeli troops have seen hamas fighters launch attacks that have killed more than 1,400 people. Theyve retaliated with repeated air strikes. Authorities in gaza say at least 3,700 palestini
The Nikkei stock index's rise to an all-time high is unlikely to help buoy Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's government, which has been mired in political funds and other scandals, as the public considers the bullish market as unrelated to his policies.
Yoshitaka Ikeda became the first lawmaker arrested in the latest political fundraising scandal involving the Japanese ruling Liberal Democratic Party's largest faction, further blurring Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's political fate.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has been compelled to rely more on former Prime Minister Taro Aso, called a "kingmaker" by critics, to maintain his administration amid a political fundraising scandal involving his Liberal Democratic Party.
The largest faction of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party is suspected of having misappropriated revenue from fundraising parties to support upper house election campaigns for years, a source familiar with the matter says.