Biden says in meeting with Macron that handling of French submarine contract was "clumsy"
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In his first meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron since a spat over a canceled multi-billion-dollar submarine deal in September, President Biden blamed a communications snafu.
"I was under the impression that France had been informed long before that the (French) deal would not come through," Mr. Biden said Friday. "I honest to God did not know you had not," he said, turning to Macron.
When Australia scuttled its submarine deal with France in order to buy submarines with U.S. and British technology instead, Macron found out at the last minute — just before Mr. Biden, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the deal to build nuclear-powered submarines, rather than the diesel submarines the Australians had signed a contract to purchase in 2016.
A cybercriminal group claims it stole personal data belonging to more than 500 million Ticketmaster customers. Although the event ticketing service, owned by Live Nation Entertainment, hasn't confirmed the attack, security experts warn that it could put users of the platform at risk for a range of scams.
Two climbers were waiting to be rescued near the peak of Denali, a colossal mountain that towers over miles of vast tundra in southern Alaska, officials said Wednesday. Originally part of a three-person team that became stranded near the top of the mountain, the climbers put out a distress call more than 30 hours earlier suggesting they were hypothermic and unable to descend on their own, according to the National Park Service.