Simon Ateba is Chief White House Correspondent for Today News Africa. Simon covers President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, the U.S. government, the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and other financial and international institutions in Washington D.C. and New York City.
U.S. President Joseph R. Biden Jr. spoke by phone with President Vladimir Putin of Russia on Saturday for more than an hour and their conversation was “professional and substantive,” a senior administration official told reporters on Saturday.
