Reuters 2021-01-21 16:55:09
President Joe Biden will sign 10 executive orders on Thursday to fight the coronavirus pandemic, including directing that disaster funds be used to help reopen schools and requiring that people wear m...
AP 2021-01-21 15:43:42
As a new US president takes office, he faces a determined Chinese leadership that could be further emboldened by America’s troubles at home. The disarray in America, from the rampant Covid-19 p...
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A twin suicide bombing killed at least 13 people and wounded more than 30 in a Baghdad market on Thursday in the first such attack in years, security and medical sources said. There was no immediate...
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India's government has offered to put three controversial farm laws, that have sparked major protests, on hold for 18 months. Farmers have been camped at Delhi's borders since 26 November to protest...
REUTERS 2021-01-21 11:19:26
US President Joe Biden signed 15 executive actions shortly after being sworn on Wednesday, undoing policies put in place by his Republican predecessor, Donald Trump, and making his first moves on the...
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The recently updated website for President Joe Biden’s White House carried an invitation for tech specialists savvy enough to find it. Hidden in the HTML code on www.whitehouse.gov was an invit...
REUTERS 2021-01-21 10:39:04
China has imposed sanctions on 28 US individuals including former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo over “crazy actions that have gravely interfered in China’s internal affairs”, its fo...
REUTERS 2021-01-21 10:30:42
Here is how world leaders are reacting to US President Joe Biden’s inauguration on Wednesday, replacing Donald Trump. NEW ZEALAND PRIME MINISTER JACINDA ARDERN, IN A STATEMENT: “We have...
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The government in Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat has decided to change the name of dragon fruit as it feels the original name is associated with China, drawing deris...
CNN 2021-01-20 23:35:18
President Joe Biden pledged to repair alliances and engage with the world once again. "Here's my message to those beyond our borders. America has been tested, and we've come out stronger for it. We w...
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Democrat Joe Biden was sworn in as president of the United States on Wednesday, assuming the helm of a country reeling from deep political divides, a battered economy and a raging coronavirus pandemic...
Reuters 2021-01-20 21:47:36
At least two people died and several were injured when a building in a central Madrid belonging to the Catholic Church collapsed on Wednesday after an explosion, Mayor Jose Luis Martinez-Almeida told...
AP 2021-01-20 20:02:35
Donald Trump pumped his fist and waved as he departed the White House on Marine One Wednesday for the last time as president, leaving behind a legacy of chaos and tumult and a nation bitterly divided....
Agencies 2021-01-20 19:26:02
Joe Biden has been sworn in as the 46th US president at the US Capitol in Washington. Vice-president Kamala Harris has taken her oath too - becoming the first woman to hold that position. Democratic...
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US President Donald Trump, in a farewell address released on Tuesday, touted his legacy and wished luck to the new administration of President-elect Joe Biden but without acknowledging his successor b...
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Some British hospitals look like war zones with doctors struggling to cope with an influx of patients infected with COVID-19, the government’s top scientific adviser said, as the death toll rose...
AP 2021-01-20 17:55:05
The European Union’s top officials breathed a sigh of relief on Wednesday that Joe Biden will be taking over as president of the United States, but they warned that the world has changed after f...
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US President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday led a national memorial observance on the eve of his inauguration to honour the 400,000 Americans who have perished from COVID-19 during the 11 months since the...
REUTERS 2021-01-20 16:04:20
US President-elect Joe Biden plans to quickly extend travel restrictions barring travel by most people who have recently been in much of Europe and Brazil soon after President Donald Trump lifted thos...
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United Nations agencies are warning that more than 350 million people in the Asia-Pacific region are going hungry as the coronavirus pandemic destroys jobs and pushes food prices higher. The report i...
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US President Donald Trump granted clemency to former White House aide Steve Bannon as part of a wave of pardons and commutations issued in his final hours in office, a senior administration official s...
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A tabloid’s publication of a deeply personal letter written by Meghan, Britain’s Duchess of Sussex, to her father was a “plain breach” of privacy, her lawyers told a court on T...
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The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, received a Covid-19 vaccine and urged people across the world to accept the jab, saying that getting vaccinated was part of the Christian commandment to lov...
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Uganda accused the US ambassador on Tuesday of seeking to subvert last week’s presidential election by trying to visit the main opposition candidate at his home, which has been surrounded by sec...
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India, one of the world’s biggest drugmakers, will start exports of COVID-19 vaccines as early as Wednesday, government sources said, paving the way for many mid-and lower-income countries to se...
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The world needs American leadership in the battle against COVID-19, the EU’s top diplomat said, urging US President-elect Joe Biden to step up after the Trump administration was widely criticise...
Reuters 2021-01-19 18:34:40
Russia's consumer health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor on Tuesday said Russia's second vaccine against COVID-19 is 100 per cent effective based on the results of clinical trials, the TASS news agency repor...
AP 2021-01-19 18:22:56
A court in Thailand on Tuesday sentenced a former civil servant to a record prison term of 43 years and six months for breaching the country’s strict law on insulting or defaming the monarchy, l...
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Uganda accused the US ambassador on Tuesday of seeking to subvert last week’s presidential election by trying to visit the main opposition candidate at his home, which has been surrounded by sec...
AP 2021-01-19 17:46:45
A panel of experts commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO) has criticised China and other countries for not moving to stem the initial outbreak of the coronavirus earlier and questioned wh...
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