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Sizzling heat wave blankets US Southwest

Sizzling heat wave blankets US Southwest

-- 2021-06-17 15:43:29

Much of the western United States baked for a third day on Wednesday under a punishing heat wave that has set temperature records, prompted health warnings, and strained power grids. Although a shift...

Four dead in shooting on Chicago’s South Side

Four dead in shooting on Chicago’s South Side

AP 2021-06-15 20:44:38

An argument in a residence on Chicago’s South Side early Tuesday erupted into gunfire, leaving four women dead and four other people injured, police said. The shooting happened at 5:42am, polic...

Quoting Irish poet, Biden ends EU trade war

Quoting Irish poet, Biden ends EU trade war

-- 2021-06-15 20:13:38

US President Joe Biden ended one front in a Trump-era trade war when he met European Union leaders on Tuesday by agreeing on a truce in a transatlantic dispute over aircraft subsidies that has dragged...

Biden to hold first summit as US president with Putin

Biden to hold first summit as US president with Putin

-- 2021-06-15 18:59:38

Expectations for a major breakthrough at a summit on Wednesday between US President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are low with ties between Washington and Moscow at their most s...

US Navy aircraft carrier enters South China Sea amid rising tensions

US Navy aircraft carrier enters South China Sea amid rising tensions

Reuters 2021-06-15 13:03:12

A US aircraft carrier group led by the USS Ronald Reagan has entered the South China Sea as part of a routine mission, the US Navy said on Tuesday, at a time of rising tensions between Washington and...

US COVID deaths cross 600,000-mark

US COVID deaths cross 600,000-mark

-- 2021-06-15 11:23:10

The United States has now lost over 600,000 mothers, fathers, children, siblings, and friends to COVID-19, a painful reminder that death, sickness, and grief continue even as the country begins to ret...

Whale swallows man alive, then spits him out

Whale swallows man alive, then spits him out

-- 2021-06-12 16:24:24

A commercial lobsterman has described a highly unusual encounter, saying he thought he was going to die when he was swallowed whole by a humpback whale off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on Fri...

US Senate confirms first federal Muslim judge

US Senate confirms first federal Muslim judge

-- 2021-06-11 11:49:23

The US Senate has approved President Joe Biden’s nomination of Zahid Quraishi, a magistrate judge in New Jersey, to the federal bench, making him the first Muslim federal judge in US history. T...

Biden warns Russia of 'robust' response for harmful actions

Biden warns Russia of 'robust' response for harmful actions

REUTERS 2021-06-10 11:21:54

President Joe Biden on Wednesday began his first trip abroad since taking office by hailing America's unwavering commitment to the NATO alliance and warning Russia it faced "robust and meaningful" con...

US identifies 3,900 children separated at border for reunion with parents

US identifies 3,900 children separated at border for reunion with parents

-- 2021-06-08 21:29:13

A task force, formed by US President Joe Biden, has identified roughly 3,900 children separated from parents at the US-Mexico border in an effort to reunite migrant families separated by Donald Trump&...

Over 800 ‘criminals’ arrested worldwide using FBI-run app

Over 800 ‘criminals’ arrested worldwide using FBI-run app

-- 2021-06-08 21:04:33

More than 800 suspected criminals were arrested worldwide and $148 million in cash were seized after being tricked into using an FBI-run encrypted messaging app, officials say. A huge amount of drugs...

Muslim family of four killed in 'premeditated' truck attack in Canada

Muslim family of four killed in 'premeditated' truck attack in Canada

-- 2021-06-08 10:46:58

Four members of a Muslim family were killed in a "premeditated" vehicle attack on Sunday, Canadian police say. The attack took place in the city of London, Ontario province. A boy aged nine, the...

Trump, in rare public outing, criticises China, Fauci

Trump, in rare public outing, criticises China, Fauci

-- 2021-06-06 12:47:09

Former President Donald Trump on Saturday sharply attacked US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, demanded reparations from China and denounced an in...

US says will treat ransomware attacks with similar priority as terrorism

US says will treat ransomware attacks with similar priority as terrorism

Reuters 2021-06-04 15:11:59

The US Department of Justice is elevating investigations of ransomware attacks to a similar priority as terrorism in the wake of the Colonial Pipeline hack and mounting damage caused by cyber criminal...

In Brazil's Amazonian, rivers swell to 100-year highs

In Brazil's Amazonian, rivers swell to 100-year highs

-- 2021-06-02 12:47:04

Rivers around the biggest city in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest have swelled to levels unseen in over a century of record-keeping, according to data published Tuesday by Manaus’ port authorit...

US security agency spied on Merkel

US security agency spied on Merkel

REUTERS 2021-05-31 10:42:18

The US National Security Agency (NSA) has used a partnership with Denmark's foreign intelligence unit to spy on senior officials of neighbouring countries, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, a...

More than 200 bodies found at Indigenous school in Canada

More than 200 bodies found at Indigenous school in Canada

AP 2021-05-29 22:22:33

The remains of 215 children, some as young as 3 years old, have been found buried on the site of what was once Canada's largest Indigenous residential school - one of the institutions that held chil...

Bill and Melinda Gates explore changes in structure of foundation

Bill and Melinda Gates explore changes in structure of foundation

Reuters 2021-05-28 11:35:47

Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates are discussing changes to the structure of their foundation to add more governance and independence, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people fam...

Biden's defence budget seeks greater China deterrence

Biden's defence budget seeks greater China deterrence

Reuters 2021-05-28 10:33:08

US President Joe Biden's $715 billion Department of Defense budget will shift funding from old systems to help modernise the nuclear arsenal to deter China, while also developing future warfare capabi...

Biden seeks report on coronavirus origins within 90 days

Biden seeks report on coronavirus origins within 90 days

-- 2021-05-27 18:04:49

US President Joe Biden ordered aides to find answers to the origin of the virus that causes COVID-19, saying on Wednesday that US intelligence agencies are pursuing rival theories potentially includin...

Blinken announces additional US aid to Palestinians

Blinken announces additional US aid to Palestinians

Reuters 2021-05-26 10:00:18

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken pledged on a Middle East mission on Tuesday that Washington would provide new aid to help rebuild Gaza as part of efforts to bolster a ceasefire between its Islami...

Trump faces lawsuit for calling Covid-19 ‘China virus’

Trump faces lawsuit for calling Covid-19 ‘China virus’

-- 2021-05-22 21:49:56

Former United States President Donald Trump is being sued by a Chinese American civil rights group over his use of the terms “Chinese virus”, “Wuhan virus” and “Kung Flu...

Covid deaths in Latin America surpass 1 million

Covid deaths in Latin America surpass 1 million

Reuters 2021-05-22 12:16:52

The death toll from Covid-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean passed 1 million people on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, with the pandemic worsening in the part of the world with the highest p...

US civil rights leader urges Biden to give India 60m Covid-19 vaccine doses

US civil rights leader urges Biden to give India 60m Covid-19 vaccine doses

Hindustan Times 2021-05-20 19:10:16

The whole world today is praying for India and its people, America's top civil rights leader Rev Jesse Jackson said on Wednesday, exuding confidence that the country of Mahatma Gandhi will win the bat...

New York state opens criminal probe into Trump’s company

New York state opens criminal probe into Trump’s company

-- 2021-05-19 17:07:39

The New York attorney general’s office said on Tuesday it has now opened a criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump’s company, increasing the legal risk for Trump and his...

G20 leaders snub Covid patent waiver

G20 leaders snub Covid patent waiver

REUTERS 2021-05-19 10:17:13

Leaders of the world's largest economies back "voluntary licensing" of Covid-19 vaccine patents, the draft conclusions of a summit show, watering down a US push for waivers and earlier commitments to...

Biden to send 20m Covid vaccine doses abroad by end of June

Biden to send 20m Covid vaccine doses abroad by end of June

-- 2021-05-18 09:23:48

President Joe Biden will send at least 20 million more COVID-19 vaccine doses abroad by the end of June, marking the first time the United States is sharing vaccines authorised for domestic use. The...

Kid reporter who interviewed Obama at White House dies at 23

Kid reporter who interviewed Obama at White House dies at 23

-- 2021-05-16 17:39:02

The student reporter who gained national acclaim when he interviewed President Barack Obama at the White House in 2009 has died of natural causes, his family says. Damon Weaver was 23 when he died Ma...

US objects to UN meeting on Israel, Gaza

US objects to UN meeting on Israel, Gaza

-- 2021-05-14 10:32:34

The United States has objected to a request by China, Norway, and Tunisia for a public, virtual meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Friday to discuss the worsening violence between Israe...

Biden hosts first White House talks with Republican leaders

Biden hosts first White House talks with Republican leaders

Reuters 2021-05-13 17:14:12

President Joe Biden held his first White House meeting with Republican leaders from Congress on Wednesday in search of common ground on his proposals to spend trillions of dollars on US infrastructure...