Beijing, January 20 (AP): China's Foreign Ministry described outgoing US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday as a “doomsday clown” and said his designation of China as a perpetrator of g
NEW YORK, JANUARY 20 (IANS): On the eve of her taking over as the path-breaking first vice president of Asian descent, Kamala Harris assured her fellow Americans from the continent celebrating her victory that
United Nations, January 20 (AP): 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 price
Washington, January 20 (AP): Donald Trump will walk out of the White House and board Marine One for the last time as president on Wednesday, leaving behind a legacy of chaos and tumult and a nation bitterly div
New York, January 20 (IANS): US President Trump on Wednesday granted clemency to more than 100 people in one of his final acts as commander-in-chief, including his former Chief Strategist Stephen Bannon.
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New York, January 20 (IANS): A Black woman's Bible has featured in every single big moment of Kamala Harris' political career up till now. She laid her left hand upon it as she took the oath of office t
Moscow, January 19 (AP): The Kremlin on Tuesday brushed off calls from US and European officials to release opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who was arrested after returned to Russia from Germany following tre
GENEVA, JANUARY 19 (IANS): The world faces a "catastrophic moral failure" because of unequal Covid-19 vaccine policies, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned.
WHO chief Tedros
WASHINGTON, JANUARY 19 (IANS): As US President-elect Joe Biden is set to be inaugurated as the 46th President of the US on Wednesday, outgoing President Donald Trump will leave office with the lowest approval r
COLOMBO, JANUARY 19 (IANS): The Sri Lankan Cabinet on Tuesday approved to make sign language a recognised means of communication, the Government Information Department said In a statement, the Department said t
WASHINGTON, JANUARY 19 (IANS): A woman who according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) stole House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's laptop during the January 6 Capitol riots and tried to sell it to Russian
Tehran, January 19 (AP): Iran's military kicked off a ground forces drill on Tuesday along the coast of the Gulf of Oman, state TV reported, the latest in a series of snap exercises that the country is hold
Geneva, January 19 (AP): A panel of experts commissioned by the World Health Organisation has criticised China and other countries for not moving to stem the initial outbreak of the coronavirus earlier and ques
Detroit (US), January 19 (AP): The resiliency, culture and heroism of Black Americans and the African diaspora will be the central theme of a virtual event that will celebrate the nation's diversity on the
NEW YORK, JANUARY 19 (IANS): The first Indian recorded to have reached the shores of the US is a man from Madras (now Chennai), the area from where the family of Shyamala Gopalan, mother of Vice President-elect
KABUL, JANUARY 19 (IANS): Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg held a phone conversation during which they discussed the peace talks between the Kabul government an
WASHINGTON, JANUARY 19 (IANS): With just one day left for Joe Biden to be inaugurated as the 46th President of the US, outgoing First Lady Melania Trump bode farewell to the nation, asking every American to &qu
CAIRO, JANUARY 19 (IANS): The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has announced the discovery of remains of a Roman fort in the country's Aswan Governorate.
At the fort site, an Egyptian archaeo
Jerusalem, January 19 (AP): The World Health Organization has raised "concerns" about the unequal distribution of coronavirus vaccines in Israel, which has given shots to more than 20 per cent of
Washington, January 19 (AP): Back when the election was tightening and just a week away, Joe Biden went big.
He flew to Warm Springs, the Georgia town whose thermal waters once brought Franklin Delano Roosev