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Frequent clashes and cross-border shelling along the Line of Control in recent months reportedly killed multiple civilians.

His confirmation is expected to easily pass with strong bipartisan support similar to the majority of Biden’s national security team.

The prediction comes even as the UAE and other Gulf states, namely Saudi Arabia, are pouring money into developing their own indigenous defense industries.

Emma Coronel Aispuro, 31, was charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana in the United States.

The Biden administration last week offered to begin talks with Tehran, but Iran has not agreed and has stressed that the U.S. must lift sanctions first.

Tensions between Washington and Tehran escalated following former President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the landmark nuclear agreement.

Despite the storms, 2 million of the expected 6 million vaccines have been delivered.

“I urge all parties to choose the path towards peace. The violence must decrease, now,” Austin said, in his first press briefing with reporters.

Biden, who ascended to the nation’s highest office a month ago, also said the United States was fully committed to the NATO military alliance.

Iran has set a deadline of Feb. 21, vowing that if oil and banking sanctions are not lifted, it will expel the U.N.’s nuclear inspectors from the country.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has not yet decided if the 10,000 troops it has in Afghanistan will leave the country by May.

The United States has 2,500 troops in Iraq.

In July, the Trump administration gave the U.N. secretary-general its notice withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization by July 6, 2021.

The State Department vowed on Wednesday that there will be consequences for those behind the deadly rocket attack in northern Iraq.

“The Saudis in Washington are in the worst position they’ve ever been,” a former Obama administration official told CNBC.

The White House, State Department and Department of Defense left the door open to a response to the deadly rocket attack in Iraq.

“America cannot afford to be absent any longer on the world stage,” Biden said in an address at the State Department.

Iran has alarmed some in the international community, since a greater quantity of uranium metal could be used to build the core of a nuclear bomb.

Democrats needed 17 Republicans to join them to convict Trump.

Michael van der Veen, an attorney for former President Donald Trump, placed blame on the rioters for the attack on the U.S. Capitol. “There were no words of incitement,” van der Veen said. “You can allow America’s healing to begin. I urge the Senate to acquit and vindicate the Constitution of this great republic.”