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Greek-American political advisor and communications expert Jen Psaki has been named press secretary in US President-elect Joe Biden's new all-female White House communications team.

Psaki was the White House communications director under president Barack Obama from 2015 to 2017 and had previously been spokesperson for the US Department of State, among other roles.

President-elect Joe Biden on Nov. 23 announced a foreign policy and national security team crammed with veterans from the Barack Obama years, signaling an end to the upheaval under President Donald Trump and a return to traditional U.S. diplomacy.    

Top of the list was former State Department number two Antony Blinken, tapped for secretary of state.    

Turkey on Nov. 22 expressed its determination to achieve a "fair position" within the scope of the international regime to combat climate change in an addendum statement to the G20 Leaders' Summit Declaration. 

The United Nations Security Council overwhelmingly rejected a U.S. resolution to extend an Iranian arms embargo on Aug. 14, in a move with huge repercussions for the Iran nuclear deal.

Only two of the Council's 15 members voted in favor, highlighting the division between Washington and its European allies since President Donald Trump withdrew from the nuclear accord in May 2018.

The death of George Floyd has ignited protests across America and the world, reverberating as far as the gates of the US Embassy in Athens. Though some ruffians ransack American cities under the cover of protest, polls show that up to 54% of Americans support the call for justice.

In the beginning, everyone was skeptical. But Elon Musk's SpaceX defied expectations- and on May 27 hopes to make history by ferrying two NASA astronauts into space, the first crewed flight from U.S. soil in nine long years.

A government watchdog fired suddenly by Donald Trump was investigating Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, said a Democratic lawmaker who accused the president of committing a potentially illegal act of retribution.

The State Department confirmed the late on May 15 dismissal of Inspector General Steve Linick without giving a reason for his departure.

An advertising board in New York City's Times Square has been lit up to show a live counter of the coronavirus death toll in the US.

Branded the "Trump Death Clock" it was created by filmmaker Eugene Jarecki and installed on the roof of a Times Square building.

Mr Jarecki says the deaths from coronavirus are down to inaction by President Trump.

Tom Frieden is one of the world's top experts in health policy and administration as well as everything concerning pandemics, and that's why his advice is always take into consideration in the US and often elsewhere too.

A Turkish professor was elected as a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, one of the world's most distinguished science institutions.

İvet Bahar from the University of Pittsburgh, who worked on pharmaceutical designs, succeeded in being the first Turkish woman to be chosen to be a member of the 157-year-old academy.