Biden kicks off NATO summit with highly scrutinized speech President Biden kicks off a NATO summit with a speech. JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: President Biden welcomed world leaders to Washington this week for a summit to mark the 75th anniversary of the founding of the NATO alliance. KHALID: Well, the NATO alliance has been a key priority for President Biden, and …
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — Sierra Leone said Thursday it is working with neighboring countries to step up the fight against piracy in the Gulf of Guinea after a Chinese fishing vessel was hijacked in its waters earlier this week. The ship was sailing with another fishing vessel, Aliman, when both came under attack by heavily armed pirates, Sierra Leone’s Navy …
The U.S. has detected 4 other recent spy balloons. JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: Given the commotion over the Chinese surveillance balloon, you'd think something like this has never happened before, but it has, at least four other times in recent years. MYRE: Well, the U.S. says it's already learned quite a bit just by tracking the Chinese balloon for a week …