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US Democrats scramble to avert government shutdown

US Democrats scramble to avert government shutdown

-- 2021-09-30 09:19:11

US President Joe Biden's agenda was at risk of being derailed by divisions among his own Democrats, as moderates voiced anger on Wednesday at the idea of delaying a $1 trillion infrastructure bill ahe...

US says ivory-billed woodpecker, 22 other species extinct

US says ivory-billed woodpecker, 22 other species extinct

-- 2021-09-29 17:48:38

Death’s come knocking a last time for the splendid ivory-billed woodpecker and 22 more birds, fish and other species: The US government is declaring them extinct, reports AP. It’s a rare...

US General Milley defends calls with China

US General Milley defends calls with China

-- 2021-09-29 11:18:30

US General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, fended off perhaps the most personal and direct attacks from lawmakers of his career on Tuesday as Republicans blasted his calls with Chi...

US bars charter plane from landing with Americans from Afghanistan

US bars charter plane from landing with Americans from Afghanistan

-- 2021-09-29 11:02:57

The Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday denied US landing rights for a charter plane carrying more than 100 Americans and US green card holders evacuated from Afghanistan, organisers of the fli...

Mexican officials urge Haitians at US-Mexico border to give up and return to south

Mexican officials urge Haitians at US-Mexico border to give up and return to south

-- 2021-09-25 11:36:18

Mexican officials are urging Haitians on the Texas border trying to reach the United States to give up and return to Mexico's frontier with Guatemala to request asylum, even as discontent grows over t...

Mexico urges Haitians at US-Mexico border to give up

Mexico urges Haitians at US-Mexico border to give up

-- 2021-09-24 15:28:18

Mexican officials are urging Haitians on the Texas border trying to reach the United States to give up and return to Mexico's frontier with Guatemala to request asylum, even as discontent grows over t...

US envoy resigns over expulsions to Haiti from Texas camp

US envoy resigns over expulsions to Haiti from Texas camp

-- 2021-09-23 19:58:57

The US envoy to Haiti dramatically resigned on Thursday in a letter that excoriated Washington for deporting hundreds of migrants to the crisis-engulfed Caribbean nation from a border camp in recent d...

US authorises Pfizer Covid-19 booster for older, at-risk Americans

US authorises Pfizer Covid-19 booster for older, at-risk Americans

-- 2021-09-23 10:17:59

The US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday authorised a booster dose of the Pfizer Inc and BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for those 65 and older, all people at high risk of severe disease, and others...

Under pressure, US donates another half billion Covid vaccine doses to world

Under pressure, US donates another half billion Covid vaccine doses to world

-- 2021-09-23 10:13:44

The United States on Wednesday promised to buy 500 million more Covid-19 vaccine doses to donate to other countries as it comes under increasing pressure to share its supply with the rest of the world...

US to donate an additional 500m COVID-19 vaccine doses

US to donate an additional 500m COVID-19 vaccine doses

-- 2021-09-22 19:54:51

The United States plans to donate an additional 500 million COVID-19 vaccine doses made by Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE to nations around the world, lifting the total the country is sharing to more than...

Furious scenes at Haiti’s main airport add to Biden pressure over expulsions

Furious scenes at Haiti’s main airport add to Biden pressure over expulsions

-- 2021-09-22 13:00:28

Angry scenes broke out at Haiti's main airport on Tuesday among migrants sent home from a squalid Texas border camp, as US President Joe Biden faced mounting pressure to stop an expulsions policy the...

Biden wants to double climate change aid for developing nations

Biden wants to double climate change aid for developing nations

-- 2021-09-21 23:29:40

US President Joe Biden told the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday he would work with Congress to double funds by 2024 to $11.4 billion per year to help developing nations deal with climate ch...

US rolls back travel restrictions, to allow fully-vaccinated travellers

US rolls back travel restrictions, to allow fully-vaccinated travellers

-- 2021-09-20 21:55:43

The United States will reopen to air passengers from China, India, Britain and many other European countries who have received COVID-19 vaccines in early November, the White House said Monday, rolling...

EU-style bloc pitched for Latin America, Caribbean

EU-style bloc pitched for Latin America, Caribbean

-- 2021-09-20 09:05:14

Latin American and Caribbean nations should aspire to a bloc like the European Union, Mexico's president and other leaders said at a summit on Saturday, in a bid to wrest influence away from the Washi...

Canada's Trudeau most likely to lead another minority government

Canada's Trudeau most likely to lead another minority government

-- 2021-09-20 08:18:22

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, crisscrossing the country making a last pitch to voters before Monday's election, said on Sunday only his Liberals could end the Covid over the pandemic. Trudea...

World leaders returning to UN this week with focus on pandemic, climate

World leaders returning to UN this week with focus on pandemic, climate

-- 2021-09-19 11:05:42

World leaders are returning to the United Nations in New York this week with a focus on boosting efforts to fight both climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic, which last year forced them to send vid...

US Capitol on high alert as pro-Trump demonstrators converge for rally    

US Capitol on high alert as pro-Trump demonstrators converge for rally    

-- 2021-09-18 19:32:00

Hundreds of police officers will be on duty around the US Capitol on Saturday braced for a rally by supporters of the hundreds of people who breached the building on Jan 6 trying to overturn former Pr...

WHO urges world leaders to focus on vaccine equity at UNGA

WHO urges world leaders to focus on vaccine equity at UNGA

-- 2021-09-17 21:41:16

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has urged the global leaders, attending the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), to guarantee equitable access to Covid vaccines and other li...

Haiti’s PM, a suspect in killing of president Moise, replaces justice minister

Haiti’s PM, a suspect in killing of president Moise, replaces justice minister

-- 2021-09-16 11:58:36

Fresh turmoil hit Haiti's government on Wednesday as Prime Minister Ariel Henry replaced his justice minister and a senior official stepped down, saying he could not serve a premier under suspicion in...

Analysis: US looks to COVID-19 boosters to curb virus spread

Analysis: US looks to COVID-19 boosters to curb virus spread

-- 2021-09-15 18:01:55

US officials preparing to roll out COVID-19 booster shots in the face of waning vaccine protection and surging hospitalizations and deaths caused by the highly contagious Delta variant are hoping they...

76th UNGA session opens

76th UNGA session opens

-- 2021-09-15 14:05:51

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Tuesday opened its 76th session, with the UNGA president and the UN chief imploring member states to embrace hope and strengthen unity after a challenging...

Haiti PM fires prosecutor who sought charges against him in president's killing

Haiti PM fires prosecutor who sought charges against him in president's killing

-- 2021-09-15 12:46:11

Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry on Tuesday replaced the chief public prosecutor who had been seeking charges against him as a suspect in the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, plunging the c...

Bush, Clinton, Obama band together to aid Afghan refugees

Bush, Clinton, Obama band together to aid Afghan refugees

-- 2021-09-15 12:19:11

Three former US presidents - Republican George W Bush and Democrats Bill Clinton and Barack Obama - have banded together behind a new group aimed at supporting refugees from Afghanistan settling in th...

Mexican authorities rescue 22 foreigners kidnapped from a hotel

Mexican authorities rescue 22 foreigners kidnapped from a hotel

-- 2021-09-15 10:52:15

Mexican authorities on Tuesday rescued 22 foreigners, most of them Cuban and Haitian, who were earlier in the day kidnapped when gunmen stormed a hotel in the central state of...

US pushing global leaders to embrace 70pc Covid vaccination target

US pushing global leaders to embrace 70pc Covid vaccination target

-- 2021-09-15 10:36:19

The United States is pushing global leaders to endorse what it calls ambitious targets for ending the COVID-19 pandemic, including ensuring 70 per cent of the world's population is vaccinated against...

Biden denies Xi turned down offer for face-to-face meeting

Biden denies Xi turned down offer for face-to-face meeting

-- 2021-09-15 10:25:14

US President Joe Biden denied on Tuesday a media report that his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, last week turned down an offer from Biden for a face-to-face meeting. The Financial Times cited multi...

Blinken defends Afghan withdrawal at US congressional hearing

Blinken defends Afghan withdrawal at US congressional hearing

-- 2021-09-14 10:57:23

Secretary of State Antony Blinken beat back criticism of the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan on Monday at a contentious congressional hearing where at least two Republicans called on him to r...

Stanford professors call for ending US programme looking for Chinese spies in academia

Stanford professors call for ending US programme looking for Chinese spies in academia

-- 2021-09-14 09:43:39

A group of Stanford University professors has asked the Justice Department to stop looking for Chinese spies at U.S. universities, joining an effort by human rights groups to end a Trump administratio...

Tropical Storm Nicholas threatens Gulf Coast with heavy rain

Tropical Storm Nicholas threatens Gulf Coast with heavy rain

-- 2021-09-13 22:01:56

Tropical Storm Nicholas was moving up the Gulf Coast on Monday, threatening to bring heavy rain and floods to coastal areas of Texas, Mexico and storm-battered Louisiana. Forecasters at the National...

School starts for 1.0m NYC kids amid new vaccine rules

School starts for 1.0m NYC kids amid new vaccine rules

-- 2021-09-13 21:33:47

About a million New York City public school students went back to school Monday in the nation's largest experiment of in-person learning during the coronavirus pandemic. The start of the school year...