-- 2021-12-17 14:14:54
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday it had received reports of eight cases of myocarditis, a type of heart inflammation, in children aged 5-11 years who received Pfi...
FE ONLINE DESK 2021-12-17 09:25:20
The US government on Thursday permanently eased some restrictions on a pill used to terminate early pregnancies, allowing the drug to be sent by mail rather than requiring it to be dispensed in person...
-- 2021-12-16 16:24:15
US President Joe Biden on Wednesday nominated Caroline Kennedy to be US ambassador to Australia and Olympic figure skater Michelle Kwan as ambassador to Belize, the White House said. Kennedy, 64, is...
-- 2021-12-16 15:49:34
Canada's government implored residents on Wednesday not to leave the country as provinces ramp up vaccinations to combat the fast-spreading Omicron coronavirus variant, even as efforts to head off a...
-- 2021-12-15 21:12:53
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken cut short his Southeast Asia visit on Wednesday due to a COVID-19 case in his travelling party, an official said, in an abrupt halt to a trip aimed at boosting tie...
-- 2021-12-14 21:05:52
At least 50 people were killed when a fuel truck exploded in a street in Haiti's second-largest city Cap-Haitien during the night, the city mayor said on Tuesday. The local hospital was stretched try...
-- 2021-12-13 10:58:29
The United States crossed 50 million coronavirus cases on Sunday, according to Reuters tally, as the delta variant continues to threaten Americans and the newly discovered omicron variant spreads, rep...
-- 2021-12-12 21:29:38
The United States on Sunday was approaching 800,000 coronavirus-related deaths, as the nation braces for a potential surge in infections due to more time spent indoors with colder weather and the high...
-- 2021-12-12 19:38:26
Six Amazon.com Inc workers were confirmed dead on Saturday after a series of tornadoes roared through a warehouse near St. Louis, ripping off its roof and causing 11-inch thick concrete walls longer t...
FE ONLINE DESK 2021-12-12 10:37:43
A special Customs and Border Protection unit used sensitive government databases intended to track terrorists to investigate as many as 20 US-based journalists, including a Pulitzer Prize-winning Asso...
-- 2021-12-12 09:42:47
US President Joe Biden on Saturday said he told Russian President Vladimir Putin that Russia would pay "a terrible price" and face devastating economic consequences if it invaded Ukraine, Reuters repo...
FE ONLINE DESK 2021-12-11 18:23:04
Some 50 people are "likely" to have been killed in a devastating outbreak of tornadoes that ripped through Kentucky and several other U.S. states late Friday and early Saturday, Kentucky Governor Andy...
-- 2021-12-11 17:57:32
Brazil's health ministry said its website was hit on Friday by a hacker attack that took several systems down, including one with information about the national immunization program and another used t...
-- 2021-12-10 17:15:59
The United States won an appeal in London's High Court to have Wikileaks founder Julian Assange extradited to face criminal charges, including breaking a spying law and conspiring to hack government c...
-- 2021-12-10 12:36:19
US regulators on Thursday expanded eligibility for Covid-19 vaccine booster shots to 16- and 17-year-olds, as public health officials have urged Americans to get a third shot due to concerns about the...
-- 2021-12-09 11:43:10
US President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that putting American troops on the ground in Ukraine to deter a potential Russian invasion was "not on the table," as tension between Moscow and Washington ea...
-- 2021-12-08 12:11:22
Americans are lining up for booster doses of Covid-19 vaccines at a record pace, with concerns about the newly-detected omicron coronavirus variant spurring millions to get shots, the US government sa...
-- 2021-12-07 15:51:13
US President Joe Biden will use a high-stakes video conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin later on Tuesday to tell him that Russia will be hit with the toughest economic sanctions yet if it...
-- 2021-12-07 14:23:13
The boss of a US firm has been criticised after he fired around 900 of his staff on a single Zoom call. "If you're on this call you're part of the unlucky group being laid off," said Vishal G...
-- 2021-12-05 17:18:59
A US congressman on Saturday posted a Christmas picture of himself and what appeared to be his family, smiling and posing with an assortment of guns, just days after four teenagers were killed in a sh...
-- 2021-12-05 16:43:28
US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a video call on Tuesday, with the two leaders set to discuss the tense situation in Ukraine, reports Reuters. "Biden will u...
-- 2021-12-03 10:52:20
US President Joe Biden on Thursday laid out his strategy to fight the coronavirus as the highly contagious Omicron spread across the globe with winter coming and hours after the first known US case of...
-- 2021-12-01 20:37:43
Barbados stopped pledging allegiance to Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday as it shed another vestige of its colonial past and became a republic for the first time in history. Several leaders, dignitaries...
-- 2021-12-01 17:48:59
A 15-year-old boy killed three fellow high school students and wounded eight other people upon opening fire with a semi-automatic handgun at a Michigan high school, and he was quickly arrested, police...
-- 2021-12-01 13:26:21
Air travellers to the United States will face tougher Covid-19 testing rules, as several countries moved to seal-off their borders amid heightened uncertainty around the virulence of the Omicron varia...
-- 2021-11-29 21:00:05
US-based multinational biotechnology company Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc said on Monday its COVID-19 diagnostic tests can accurately detect the new coronavirus variant omicron that has made several c...
-- 2021-11-29 13:27:30
The top US infectious disease official, Dr Anthony Fauci, told President Joe Biden on Sunday it will take about two weeks to have definitive information on the new coronavirus variant Omicron that has...
-- 2021-11-28 19:06:27
An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 struck northern Peru about 40 km (25 miles) from the town of Barranca early on Sunday, the US Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of injury or damag...
-- 2021-11-27 10:57:41
The United States will bar entry to most travelers from eight southern African countries starting on Monday, after a potentially more-contagious new coronavirus variant was identified in South Africa,...
-- 2021-11-24 11:50:40
The Biden administration has invited Taiwan to its "Summit for Democracy" next month, according to a list of participants published on Tuesday, a move likely to infuriate China, which views the democr...
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