REUTERS 2021-04-22 10:30:48
The US State Department has added at least 116 countries this week to its “Level Four: Do Not Travel” advisory list, putting the UK, Canada, France, Israel, Mexico, Germany and others on...
-- 2021-04-21 11:24:23
A suspect in a shooting at a suburban New York grocery store on Tuesday was arrested after remaining at large for hours, local police said. The shooting, leaving one dead and two others injured, oc...
Reuters 2021-04-21 09:54:19
Former Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin was convicted on Tuesday of all three charges of murder and manslaughter in the deadly arrest of George Floyd, a milestone in the fraught racial history of t...
REUTERS 2021-04-20 11:33:35
The US State Department said on Monday it will boost its "Do Not Travel" guidance to about 80 per cent of countries worldwide, citing "unprecedented risk to travellers" from the Covid-19 pandemic. "T...
-- 2021-04-20 10:00:25
Former US Vice President Walter Mondale has died in Minneapolis on Monday aged 93, his family has announced. Mr Mondale was Jimmy Carter's running mate for his winning 1976 presidential bid and d...
AP 2021-04-19 16:24:48
The former employee who shot and killed eight people at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis legally bought the two rifles used in the attack despite red flag laws designed to prevent such purchases, poli...
-- 2021-04-18 20:54:06
Canada on Saturday reported a second case of rare blood clots with low platelets after immunisation with AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine in a week, while it said it still recommended the use of the sho...
-- 2021-04-18 12:07:31
Half of the eight workers shot to death at an Indianapolis FedEx facility by a former employee before he killed himself belonged to the Sikh religious community, leading an advocacy group to urge a pr...
Reuters 2021-04-17 11:13:36
Raul Castro confirmed he was handing over the leadership of the Cuban Communist Party to a younger generation at its congress that kicked off on Friday, ending six decades of rule by himself and older...
-- 2021-04-16 15:30:12
At least eight people were killed in a shooting at a FedEx warehouse in Indianapolis late Thursday, and the gunman was believed to have taken his own life, reports bdnews24.com citing The N...
Reuters 2021-04-16 09:52:38
The United States on Thursday (US standard time) imposed a broad array of sanctions on Russia, including curbs to its sovereign debt market, to punish it for interfering in last year’s US electi...
Reuters 2021-04-15 10:42:56
The United States will announce sanctions on Russia as soon as Thursday for alleged election interference and malicious cyber activity, targeting several individuals and entities, people familiar the...
REUTERS 2021-04-15 10:24:33
More than 100 US companies including Apple Inc, Amazon.com Inc, Ford Motor Co and Starbucks Corp have declared their opposition to voting curbs that a number of states are considering implementing. A...
-- 2021-04-15 09:57:23
Bernard Madoff, who for decades masqueraded as a successful and trustworthy Wall Street kingpin before admitting to running the largest known Ponzi scheme in history, died on Wednesday in prison where...
REUTERS 2021-04-14 21:14:15
Vice President Kamala Harris said on Wednesday she is planning to visit Guatemala and that the United States must figure out how to bring about economic development in the Northern Triangle countries...
-- 2021-04-14 20:59:00
Brazil’s P1 coronavirus variant, behind a deadly COVID-19 surge in the Latin American country that has raised international alarm, is mutating in ways that could make it better able to evade ant...
REUTERS 2021-04-14 20:19:06
After it shut down for two months last year, Jan-Ie Low and her family reduced the hours at their Las Vegas restaurant and converted much of their dining room into a food delivery hub. Outdoor dining...
-- 2021-04-14 18:25:49
Afghanistan by Sept 11 aims to close the book on America’s longest war, as critics warn that peace is anything but assured after two decades of fighting. As officials disclosed Biden’s pu...
Reuters 2021-04-14 16:52:16
Here are some facts about gun violence in the United States: HOW MANY AMERICANS OWN GUNS? With about 121 firearms in circulation for every 100 residents, the United States is by far the most...
-- 2021-04-14 12:48:54
A bipartisan pair of US senators on Tuesday introduced a bill to expedite refugee applications from Uighurs, matching an effort in the US House of Representatives to assist members of the largely Musl...
Reuters 2021-04-14 12:44:13
China’s push for global power is the leading threat to US national security, while Russia’s efforts to undermine American influence and assert itself as a major actor also pose a challenge...
-- 2021-04-14 11:20:40
US President Joe Biden called on Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday to reduce tensions stirred by a Russian military build-up on Ukraine’s border and proposed a summit of the estranged...
-- 2021-04-14 11:00:39
President Joe Biden plans to withdraw the remaining 2,500 US troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, 2021, 20 years to the day after the al Qaeda attacks that triggered America’s longest war, US of...
REUTERS 2021-04-13 09:46:27
Prosecutors on Monday neared the end of their case in the murder trial of former Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin, calling George Floyd’s younger brother to the stand for emotional testimony...
-- 2021-04-11 11:30:33
Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, who helped shape US civil rights law during the Johnson administration but went on to travel the globe to fight human rights abuses by his own country as he sa...
REUTERS 2021-04-11 10:04:16
China’s corruption watchdog has called on online video-sharing platforms to take action against “mukbang” shows, in which people livestream themselves eating - or drinking - excessiv...
-- 2021-04-10 18:14:01
Facebook Inc said on Friday it is converting a part of its Menlo Park headquarters into a vaccination site, joining the government effort to speed up the vaccination drive in the United States. For t...
-- 2021-04-10 15:56:45
The United States is considering a conditional cash transfer programme to help address economic woes that lead migrants from certain Central American countries to trek north, as well as sending COVID-...
REUTERS 2021-04-10 09:49:23
US President Joe Biden asked Congress to sharply hike spending on climate change, cancer and underperforming schools, but his first budget wishlist on Friday drew howls of bipartisan concern over mili...
-- 2021-04-09 17:11:14
The US Commerce Department said Thursday it was adding seven Chinese supercomputing entities to a US economic blacklist for assisting Chinese military efforts. The Commerce Department said the seven...
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