WASHINGTON -- Kevin Warsh was sworn in as chair of the Board of Governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve System during a White House ceremony on Friday, beginning a four-year term.
"I will lead a reform-oriented Federal Reserve, learning from past successes and mistakes both, escaping static frameworks and models, and upholding clear standards of integrity and performance," said Warsh after he took the oath. (US-Fed-Chair)
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TEHRAN -- Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said on Friday that peace negotiations between Iran and the United States are not close to an agreement.
"The ongoing (diplomatic) process and the senior Pakistani officials' presence in Tehran do not mean that we have reached a turning point or determining situation," Baghaei told state-run IRIB TV, as Pakistan's Army Chief Asim Munir and Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi are in Iran's capital for bilateral message exchanges. (Iran-US-Negotiations)
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DAKAR -- Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has terminated the functions of Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko and his government, according to a presidential statement read Friday evening on public broadcaster RTS by Oumar Samba Ba, minister and secretary-general of the presidency.
No immediate announcement was made on the appointment of a new prime minister or the formation of a new government. (Senegal-PM-Termination)
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WASHINGTON -- U.S. House Republican leaders on Thursday canceled a scheduled vote on a resolution to limit President Donald Trump's war powers in Iran.
Republican leaders would have had to flip several votes because half a dozen Republicans were absent, and party leaders could not have won the critical vote for the president, so they postponed it until after lawmakers return from recess in June, the Politico reported. (US-House-Trump-War Power) ■
