Tweets Of The Day

BREAKING: President Biden said the risk of nuclear “Armageddon” is at its highest level since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, as Russian officials speak of the possibility of using tactical nuclear weapons after suffering massive setbacks in Ukraine. https://t.co/r6A6wmnSgl

— The Associated Press (@AP) October 7, 2022

#UPDATE US President Joe Biden says world risks nuclear "Armageddon" for the first time since the Cold War and he is trying to find Russian President Vladimir Putin's "off-ramp".

"We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban missile crisis" in 1962 pic.twitter.com/6Tds1PBg43

— AFP News Agency (@AFP) October 7, 2022

President Joe Biden took executive action to change U.S. policy on marijuana, pardoning all prior federal offenses of simple marijuana possession https://t.co/exRaifxTKC pic.twitter.com/iEZUtjyaA7

— Reuters (@Reuters) October 7, 2022

President Joe Biden said the decision by OPEC+ to cut oil production is a "disappointment," but adds the White House is exploring "alternatives."

The decision by the OPEC+ alliance comes as the Western allies are trying to cap the oil money flowing into Moscow’s war chest. pic.twitter.com/AiSc0JNaya

— The Associated Press (@AP) October 6, 2022

President Joe Biden on Thursday effectively acknowledged the failure of one of his biggest and most humiliating foreign policy gambles: a fist-bump with the de-facto leader of Saudi Arabia, the crown prince associated with human rights abuses. https://t.co/it38IoQUjs

— The Associated Press (@AP) October 6, 2022

#UPDATE At least 82 people have been killed by Iranian security forces in the city of Zahedan in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan since protests erupted there on September 30, Amnesty International said on Thursday ▶️ https://t.co/WjqEOPWAWN pic.twitter.com/6Km9ND70UL

— AFP News Agency (@AFP) October 6, 2022

After a six-month ceasefire, Yemen's warring factions, the Iran-backed Shiite Houthi group and the Saudi-backed internationally recognized Sunni government, are nominally back at war.

This takes the conflict into its eighth year. https://t.co/2Jcmo4tgEc

— DW News (@dwnews) October 6, 2022

Rare to have reporting a North Korea Air Force combined arms exercise not staged for Kim Jong Un and state media cameras.https://t.co/c39vljq0D8

— Joseph Dempsey (@JosephHDempsey) October 6, 2022