Putin floats live online meeting with Biden

08:48, March 19, 2021

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  Russia recalls ambassador to US after Biden calls Putin 'killer'

  Russia called its US ambassador back to Moscow for consultations on Wednesday after US President Joe Biden described his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin as a "killer" who would "pay a price" for election meddling. A view of the Embassy of Russia in Washington, US, March 17, 2021. /GettyIn an interview with ABC News, Biden was asked about a US intelligence report that the Russian leader tried to harm his candidacy in the November 2020 election and promote that of Donald Trump. "He will pay a price," the 78-year-old Biden said. Asked if he thought Putin, who has been accused of ordering the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny and other rivals, is a "killer," Biden said: "I do."Moscow has denied meddling in the US presidential election last year or any involvement in Navalnys poisoning. Bidens comments were aired as the US Commerce Department announced it was toughening export restrictions imposed on Russia over the Navalny case. Russia responded by summoning its envoy home. The US State Department did not reciprocate by recalling its own ambassador to Moscow. Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov speaks during a discussion at the Woodrow Wilson Institute in Washington, US, November 18, 2019. /Getty"The Russian ambassador in Washington, Anatoly Antonov, has been invited to come to Moscow for consultations conducted with the aim of analyzing what should be done and where to go in the context of ties with the United States," the Russian Foreign Ministry said. "For us, the main thing is to determine ways of rectifying the Russian-American ties, which are in a difficult state and Washington has brought to a dead end in recent years," the ministrys spokesperson Maria Zakharova said in a statement. Zakharova added that Moscow is interested in preventing the bilateral relations from "irreversible degradation." Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei...

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  Washington should accept that China will not compromise on core interests

  That top officials from China and the United States are due to meet in Anchorage, Alaska, at the end of this week, has generated an air of anticipation.That it has taken nearly two months for Beijing and Washington to have their first face-to-face meeting of senior officials since the Joe Biden admi

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  Biden forecasts 100 million Americans to have received COVID shots in next 10 days

  US President Joe Biden. [Photo/Agencies] .WASHINGTON - US President Joe Biden said on Monday that Americans will have received 100 million shots to vaccinate them against the deadly coronavirus in the next 10 days.