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US President Joe Biden condemned the six-month conflict in Ethiopia’s war-hit Tigray region Wednesday, calling for a ceasefire and declaring that human rights abuses ‘must end.’

‘I am deeply concerned by the escalating violence and the hardening of regional and ethnic divisions in multiple parts of Ethiopia, The large-scale human rights abuses taking place in Tigray, including widespread sexual violence, are unacceptable and must end.’ Biden said in a White House statement yesterday.

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Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed initially sent troops into Tigray in November after accusing the …

President Joe Biden meets South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the White House on Friday to underscore a strategic focus on Asia, while playing down chances of quick progress on the two biggest challenges facing the United States.

The rising power of China as a rival for leadership in Asia and the powder keg of nuclear-armed North Korea loom over the talks.

The Biden administration admits it has no easy answer to either.

‘The goal here is to understand that this process is likely to be challenging and to give ourselves maximum flexibility,’ a senior White House official said about …

US President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed an executive order raising the hourly wages of federal government contract workers to $15, a step towards fulfilling his campaign pledge to raise the minimum wage to the same level for all employees.

The new order will require ‘federal contractors to pay a $15 minimum wage to hundreds of thousands of workers who are working on federal contracts,’ the White House said.

The current minimum wage is $10.95 an hour for these workers, who are not civil servants but work for the federal government through contracting firms.

‘These workers are critical to …