Joe Biden’s second-in-command meets Asia-Pacific leaders during her Tokyo stop, to discuss countering regional threats US Vice President Kamala Harris reaffirmed Washington’s “ironclad commitment” to Japan’s defense during her first official trip to the country on Monday. She met with the Japanese prime minister in Tokyo to discuss Beijing’s “provocations” in the Taiwan Strait.

Western nations would “swallow” Russia’s use of nuclear weapons against its neighbor, Dmitry Medvedev said NATO would not intervene if Moscow used nuclear weapons against Ukraine, Dmitry Medvedev has said, claiming that Kiev’s Western backers would be unwilling “to die in a nuclear apocalypse” for the country.

Polling stations are set to close in the coming hours as the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) votes on joining Russia The outcome of a referendum on whether people in the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) want to join Russia may be known by the end of today, its top election official has said.