Daily Monitor

January 26, 2021

Biden Sets in Motion Plan to Ban New Oil and Gas Leases on Federal Land

The president will announce a suite of executive actions on Wednesday to combat climate change, two people familiar with […]
January 26, 2021

Xi Jinping touts coronavirus cooperation as China persists with vaccine disinformation push

Addressing the world’s economic elite on Monday, Chinese President Xi Jinping said that “containing the coronavirus is the most pressing task for the international community.[…]
January 27, 2021

Israel to sign Sudan normalization deal in 3 months

Israeli Intelligence Minister Eli Cohen visited Khartoum for talks with Sudanese officials […]
January 28, 2021

Coronavirus live news: WHO says Covid ‘war’ can be won; White House predicts 90,000 more deaths by March

Hospital incursions by Covid deniers putting lives at risk, say health leaders […]
February 1, 2021

Iran’s Rouhani hopes Biden will return to Obama-era nuclear deal as he dubs Trump a ‘tyrant’

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has called on United States President-elect, Joe Biden, to return to the 2015 nuclear deal and lift sanctions imposed on Tehran by Donald Trump’s administration. […]
February 1, 2021

Myanmar Military Takes Power for One Year, Suu Kyi in Detention

Myanmar’s military detained Aung San Suu Kyi, declared a state of emergency and seized power for a year after disputing her party’s landslide November election victory in a setback for the country’s nascent transition to democracy. […]
February 2, 2021

How the EU’s vaccine effort turned into a crisis

Daniel Boffey, the Guardian’s Brussels bureau chief, looks at why the EU’s vaccination programme has become so chaotic. Last Friday the commission attempted an ill-fated plan to seek to erect a vaccine border on the island of Ireland by triggering a clause in the Brexit withdrawal agreement […]
February 3, 2021

Myanmar holds 1st Cabinet meeting after military coup

Action plan discussed at meeting with newly appointed ministers as part of state of emergency […]
February 4, 2021

Biden urges Myanmar military to free detainees, step down

President says US is working with allies and partners to address the army’s takeover and Aung San Suu Kyi’s arrest. […]
February 5, 2021

Countdown to ‘catastrophe:’ Inside Europe’s fight for COVID shots

In a meeting last week in the Europa building in Brussels, home of the European Union’s political leadership, diplomats for the 27 member states were desperate. […]