United States President Joe Biden took a jab at Chinese President Xi Jinping and several other nations for failure to attend the crucial COP26 summit at Glasgow, Scotland. The Democrat said that Beijing's actions were a "big mistake" in face of the rising threat of climate change.
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April 29, 2021
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Relations between Russia and the West are quickly deteriorating as multiple countries have expelled Moscow’s diplomats in recent weeks.
Bulgaria became the latest nation to expel a Russian official Thursday in solidarity with the Czech Republic, which recently linked Russia to a 2014 explosion at a weapons warehouse. The Czech government removed around 60 Russian diplomats from the capital of Prague on April 22, marking the biggest expulsion of Russian officials from a single country since former President Ronald Reagan removed 80 Soviet emissaries in 1986.
The ongoing back-and-forth between Moscow and Prague was triggered by Czech accusations that Russia was responsible for the 2014 explosion, which killed two people. The Bulgarian move was the result of a related probe tying Russian personnel to the poisoning of three arms dealers in the country in 2015, according to Bloomberg. P