-- 2020-12-22 17:28:57
The United States on Monday imposed additional visa restrictions on Chinese officials over alleged human rights abuses, taking further action against China in the final month of US President Donald Tr...
REUTERS 2020-12-22 14:30:04
The US Congress on Monday (local time) approved an $892 billion coronavirus aid package, throwing a lifeline to the nation’s pandemic-battered economy after months of inaction, while also keepin...
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The Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island erupted on Sunday night, according to an advisory from the US Geological Survey, followed by an earthquake that struck at the volcano’s south fla...
-- 2020-12-22 09:24:19
US President-elect Joe Biden on Monday received his first dose of the coronavirus vaccine on live television as part of a growing effort to convince the American public the inoculations are safe. The...
Reuters 2020-12-21 13:44:07
Canada is halting passenger flights from the United Kingdom for 72 hours, the country's health ministry said on Sunday (local time), joining a growing list of countries barring British travellers to p...
REUTERS 2020-12-21 11:37:05
Speaking at a private dinner for tech security executives at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco in late February, America’s cyber defence chief boasted how well his organisations protect the c...
Reuters 2020-12-20 18:37:47
The US Congress appeared poised to vote on Sunday on a $900 billion coronavirus aid package after senators struck a late-night compromise to clear one of the final hurdles, a dispute over Federal Rese...
REUTERS 2020-12-20 11:24:30
US President Donald Trump, in his first comments about a widespread data breach across the US government, on Saturday downplayed the cyber espionage campaign and questioned whether Russia was to blame...
AP 2020-12-19 19:01:03
President-elect Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, will be getting their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine on Monday, said Biden’s incoming press secretary, Jen Psaki. Vice President-elect Kamal...
-- 2020-12-19 16:35:38
Chilean President Sebastian Pinera was slapped with a $3,500 fine on Friday after posing for a selfie on the beach with a bystander without wearing a mask as required during the coronavirus pandemic,...
REUTERS 2020-12-19 09:49:37
Moderna's coronavirus vaccine on Friday became the second to receive emergency use authorisation (EUA) from the US Food and Drug Administration, welcome news to a nation with a staggering Covid-19 dea...
BBC 2020-12-18 18:36:09
The US energy department is the latest agency to confirm it has been breached in what is being described as the worst-ever hack on the US government. The department is responsible for managing US nuc...
-- 2020-12-17 21:10:32
Mercedes Benz said on Thursday that it would wind down car production in Brazil, shutting down its small factory dedicated to producing luxury vehicles in the city of Iraccemapolis, costing some 370...
Reuters 2020-12-17 17:08:23
US congressional negotiators were haggling on Wednesday over details of a $900 billion COVID-19 aid bill that is expected to include $600-$700 stimulus checks and extended unemployment benefits, as a...
-- 2020-12-16 09:16:44
President Donald Trump is leaving the White House but he is not going to fade away quietly. After failing in his legal efforts to overturn his Nov 3 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden, who on Monday...
AP 2020-12-15 23:20:35
Hundreds more US hospitals geared up to vaccinate their workers Tuesday as federal regulators issued a positive review of a second COVID-19 vaccine that's likely to soon boost the nation's largest vac...
REUTERS 2020-12-15 15:11:50
President-elect Joe Biden delivered a forceful rebuke on Monday to President Donald Trump’s attacks on the legitimacy of his victory, hours after winning the state-by-state Electoral College vot...
Reuters 2020-12-15 11:49:49
Several senior Republican US senators on Monday acknowledged Democrat Joe Biden as the country’s president-elect after the Electoral College affirmed his victory, and rejected the idea of overtu...
Reuters 2020-12-15 09:47:52
The United States imposed long-anticipated sanctions on Turkey on Monday over Ankara’s acquisition of Russian S-400 air defence systems, further complicating already strained ties between the tw...
Reuters 2020-12-14 22:18:49
New York on Monday inoculated its first healthcare worker, an intensive care unit nurse in Queens, with the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, marking a pivotal turn in the US effort to control the dea...
REUTERS 2020-12-14 13:33:16
US Electors will gather in state capitols across the country on Monday to formally vote for Joe Biden as the next president, effectively ending President Donald Trump’s frenzied but failing atte...
-- 2020-12-14 11:17:03
Cargo planes and trucks with the first US shipments of coronavirus vaccine fanned out from FedEx and UPS hubs in Tennessee and Kentucky on Sunday en route to distribution points around the country, la...
Reuters 2020-12-14 10:05:12
Hackers believed to be working for Russia have been monitoring internal email traffic at the US Treasury and Commerce departments, according to people familiar with the matter, adding they feared the...
REUTERS 2020-12-13 16:14:42
Conservative groups claiming without evidence that the November 3 election was stolen from President Donald Trump staged protests across the country on Saturday, with one in Washington turning violent...
-- 2020-12-13 11:33:55
The US public will start receiving the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine from Monday after it was authorised for emergency use, officials say. The first three million doses of the vaccine would be...
-- 2020-12-12 21:13:09
A car plowed into a crowd of about 50 people at a protest that spilled into the streets of Manhattan in New York on Friday afternoon, injuring several people. The woman behind the wheel of the BMW se...
-- 2020-12-12 20:49:11
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said world leaders should declare states of ‘climate emergency’ in their countries to spur action to avoid catastrophic global warming. Antonio G...
Reuters 2020-12-12 18:31:55
Mexico has become the fourth country to approve emergency use of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine, following authorisation from health regulator Cofepris, a health official said on Friday. "Cofepris has g...
REUTERS 2020-12-12 13:22:03
US workers could soon face choices such as free Covid-19 shots and a cash bonus if all get immunised, or those unwilling to be vaccinated get reassigned or even lose their jobs. Those options are bei...
REUTERS 2020-12-12 10:21:25
The US Supreme Court on Friday rejected a long-shot lawsuit by Texas and backed by President Donald Trump seeking to throw out voting results in four states, dealing him a likely fatal blow in his que...
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