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Insect swarm disrupts plane carrying White House reporters. Details


A swarm of cicadas caused the delay of a plane carrying reporters from the White House, which took off from Washington.


Insects penetrated the plane's engines, which forced US President Joe Biden's aides to look for another way to transport White House reporters, and as a result, the departure of the plane with journalists was postponed from Tuesday at 21.00 to 23.00 and then to 2.15 am Wednesday, according to Sputnik. Russian.


The journalists, whose trip was disrupted by a swarm of cicadas, were supposed to head to Europe to cover Joe Biden's first trip abroad.


Biden began his first foreign trip since taking office on Wednesday, where he will participate in a meeting of G7 leaders in southwest Britain, meet NATO heads of state and European Union representatives in Brussels, and finally hold bilateral talks in Geneva with Russian President Vladimir Putin.


In a related context, the coastal city of Cornwall, in the United Kingdom, is preparing to host the first personal summit of the leaders of the Group of Seven in nearly two years, during which the world struggled with the Corona epidemic. World leaders, led by US President Joe Biden, will participate in the meeting in his first foreign tour since taking office.


As the current chair of the Group of Seven, the UK will host the summit on Friday from 11 to 13 June 2021. World leaders will address common challenges, which are overcoming Covid-19, vaccination against the virus and tackling climate change, as well as girls' education, and collective security, topics will also be covered. important geopolitics.


British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will have the first opportunity to focus on the "special relationship" between Washington and London when he meets Joe Biden on Thursday afternoon, the British newspaper "Telegraph" said.


Biden and Johnson are set to hold their first formal meeting in Cornwall as part of a summit seen as an opportunity to restore ties between the two countries after the rule of former US President Donald Trump.

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