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COVID Is Ticking Up In The DC Region. Here’s What To Know DCist Source link
NATO said Wednesday it was stepping up surveillance of the Black Sea region as it condemned Russia’s exit from a landmark deal that allowed Ukrainian grain exports through the Black Sea. The announcement came after a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council, which was launched at a NATO summit in Lithuania earlier this month to coordinate […]
Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) says the United States should send Navy ships to the Black Sea to help ensure Ukrainian grain ships get through. Sen. Grassley says Russia’s attacks are an attack on global supplies, and the U.S. State Department has repeatedly called out the country for using food as a “weapon of war.” While […]
Thousands Of Residents In The DC Region Are Losing Medicaid DCist Source link
Five people are dead and more than 640,000 households across the South were without power Sunday afternoon as storms and extreme weather continued to rip through the region, according to the tracking website PowerOutage.us. Oklahoma was the state hardest-hit by power outages, with more than 290,800 customers without electricity, according to PowerOutage.us. More than 110,000 […]
How To Celebrate Juneteenth Around The DC Region DCist Source link
Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin’s seventh trip to the Indo-Pacific comes at a time when the Department of Defense is doing more than ever with U.S. allies and partners to strengthen peace, stability, and deterrence at the heart of a free and open regional vision. In Japan, Secretary Austin will underscore historic progress in […]
Typhoon Mawar has heavily impacted the U.S. territory of Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) with intense winds, flooding rain and a life-threatening storm surge. Mawar is projected to be the largest, strongest storm to strike the region in two decades. Guam has a population of more than 150,000 people, many […]
The Black Sea is a crucial crossroads for the world and one that is critically challenged, said Mara Karlin, assistant secretary of defense for strategy, plans and capabilities. Karlin, who spoke at the Black Sea and Balkans Security Forum in Bucharest, Romania, knows well how crucial the region is and spoke of how it […]
A total of 28 representatives from Afro-descendant communities in the nine countries of the Central American Integration System (SICA) region and Cuba participated in the workshop held in Panama from May 1 to 5. The event marks the beginning of the workshop phase of the capacity strengthening project for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage […]