Jen Psaki

President Joe Biden on Jan. 25 reinstated COVID-19 travel restrictions on most non-U.S. travelers from Brazil, Ireland, the United Kingdom and 26 other European countries that allow travel across open borders. He also added South Africa to the list.

The meeting will take place tomorrow, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.
Psaki said the two leaders would discuss bilateral relations, as well as Biden's decision to formally revoke the permit necessary to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline between the two North American states, Reuters reported.

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden's spokeswoman quickly dismissed Donald Trump's announcement on Jan. 18 that a COVID-19 ban on travelers arriving from much of Europe and Brazil would be lifted, underlining the fractious transition of power.

The incoming administration of US President-elect Joe Biden is very much a female affair in the crucial areas of communications and financial management. Among the all-female White House communications team named recently, moreover, Biden has chosen Jen Psaki for press secretary.

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 will have an all-female senior communications team at his White House, reflecting his stated desire to build out a diverse White House team as well as what's expected to be a return to a more traditional press operation.

For years, President Barack Obama chided Republicans and Democrats alike for treating the Keystone XL pipeline as a signal of whether the U.S. would seriously fight global warming. Now that he's killed the project, Obama is holding it up as Exhibit A as he works to lock in his environmental legacy with a powerful international climate accord.

The United States is concerned about how heavy Iranian weaponry might be used inside Iraq, including as Iran-backed militia help the offensive to retake the Iraqi city of Tikrit from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants, a U.S. official said on March 18.
   

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu on March 17 rubbished suggestions that talks should be held with President Bashar al-Assad, saying negotiating with the Syrian leader was no different to shaking hands with Nazi tyrant Adolf Hitler.
     

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will never be part of peace negotiations to halt the brutal civil war, US officials vowed March 16, adding they were taking every step to bring an end to his rule.