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Washington: President Donald Trump has signed an executive order barring transactions with eight Chinese apps including Alipay and WeChat Pay to protect America’s national security, citing the steps taken by India to ban more than 200 Chinese connected software applications. Trump’s order said action is needed to “deal with the national emergency” caused by the […]

Washington: Three days after the supporters of outgoing US President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol and five people died in the violence, Twitter has announced that it had permanently suspended his account due to “risk of further incitement of violence”. The unprecedented move by the California-based social media platform comes after Trump tweeted that […]

Washington: The Trump administration has re-designated Cuba as a “state sponsor of terrorism”, reversing an Obama-era decision days ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday that the US government had been focused from the start on denying the Castro regime the resources it uses to “oppress […]

Washington: US President Joe Biden has reversed the US process of withdrawing from the World Health Organization (WHO). Hours after being sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order ceasing a withdrawal process that his predecessor Donald Trump initiated last year, Xinhua news agency reported. “Americans are […]

Washington: US President Joe Biden has signed a series of executive orders to address COVID-19 challenges, including making coronavirus test followed by quarantine mandatory for all travellers coming from overseas. In addition to wearing masks, everyone flying to the United States from another country will need to test before they get on that plane, before […]

Washington: US President Joe Biden’s administration on Tuesday rescinded former President Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” border policy, which had lead to the separations of thousands of undocumented migrant families. According to a memo issued on Tuesday by Acting Attorney General Monty Wilkinson, federal prosecutors were directed to return to the previous policy of deciding whether […]

New York: The total number of Covid-19 cases in the United States topped 26 million, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. US Covid-19 case count rose to 26,012,880, with a total of 438,239 deaths, as of 2.22 p.m. local time (1922 GMT), according to the CSSE tally, […]

By Lalit K Jha Washington: Terming the military detention of civilian leaders in Myanmar a coup, a senior State Department official on Tuesday said the US is in touch with like-minded allies like India and Japan on the latest developments in the Southeast Asian nation as they have better contact with the military there. Myanmar’s […]

By Lalit K Jha Washington: Recognising that peaceful protests are a hallmark of a thriving democracy, the US on Wednesday said it welcomes steps that would improve the efficiency of India’s markets and attract greater private sector investment. “In general, the United States welcomes steps that would improve the efficiency of India’s markets and attract […]

Washington: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has confirmed that the country is ready to “re-engage” with the UN Human Rights Council, following the 2018 withdrawal by the former Donald Trump administration which accused the body of being “hypocritical and self-serving”. In a series of tweet confirming the move, Blinken said: The UN Human Rights […]

By Lalit K Jha Washington: The Biden administration on Wednesday said that there is no change in the US’ policy on Jammu and Kashmir and welcomed the resumption of 4G mobile internet in the region. “I want to be very clear there has been no change in US policy in the region,” State Department Spokesperson […]

Washington: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the United States intends to pay over $200 million in assessed and current obligations to the World Health Organization (WHO) by the end of this month. “This is a key step forward in fulfilling our financial obligations as a WHO member,” Blinken said in his remarks […]

United Nations: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has hailed the re-entry of the US into the Paris Agreement on climate change and called for global action to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. “Today is a day of hope, as the US officially rejoins the Paris Agreement. This is good news for the US, and for the […]

Washington: The US has said it is looking forward to an “overarching” memorandum of understanding to enhance health partnership with India and asserted that the cooperation between the two countries on COVID-19 builds on decades of successful collaboration in health and biomedical research. The US on Monday crossed the grim milestone of 500,000 COVID-19 deaths. […]

New York: On February 22, 2021, America woke up to a terrifying statistic: More than 500,000 dead from the coronavirus in the country’s deadliest year. That is more Americans who died in a single year than in World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War combined. The first blow came in February 2020. […]