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US President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to limit US investment in China's technology sector, including the development of semiconductors, microelectronics, quantum technology and artificial intelligence, the news agencies reported.

An American nurse and her child have been kidnapped in Haiti, a Christian aid group said Saturday, days after the US government ordered its nonessential personnel out of the impoverished Caribbean country due to spiraling insecurity.

Alix Dorsainvil and her child were kidnapped Thursday morning near Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince, El Roi Haiti said in a statement on its website.

US Senator Chris Van Hollen, a member of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, called on a State Department official to get assurances from Turkey that it will not use the F-16 fighter jets it seeks to upgrade to violate Greece's or Cyprus' airspace.

We are not alone -- and American authorities are covering up the evidence, a former US intelligence officer told a congressional committee on Wednesday.

On Jan. 8, 2014, a fireball from space blazed through Earth's atmosphere and crashed into the sea, north of Manus Island off the northeastern coast of Papua New Guinea. Its location, velocity and brightness were recorded by US government sensors and quietly tucked away in a database of similar events.

The seventh installment of the "Mission Impossible" franchise was No. 1 at North American box offices this weekend, estimates showed, scaring off horror flick "Insidious: The Red Door" from last weekend's top spot.

The top US and Chinese diplomats will hold their second meeting in as many months on Thursday in Jakarta, seeking to manage tensions that risk flaring anew over alleged Chinese hacking.

Luke Coffey from the Hudson Institute confirmed for VOA the words of Serbian President Aleksandar Vui this morning about the reasons for sanctioning BIA director Aleksandar Vulin.
As Coffey said, corruption, crime and drugs are certainly not the reason for this.

The United States Embassy in Athens and its consular section, the US Consulate General in Thessaloniki, and all US government offices in Greece will be closed on Tuesday, in observance of Independence Day, a federal US holiday commemorating the Declaration of Independence in 1776.

In the year 2000, the US government debt was $3.5 trillion, equal to 35% of the country's gross domestic product (GDP). By 2022, the debt was $24 trillion, equal to 95% of GDP. The US debt is soaring, hence America's current debt crisis. Yet both Republicans and Democrats are missing the solution: stopping America's wars of choice and slashing military outlays.