Washington: India is an “incredibly important” partner to the US in the region and globally, the White House has said, underlining that America is working with the country on wide-ranging issues like economic, strategic and security. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Friday said that the US took a range of steps to help […]
Paris: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday Washington was assessing whether the Taliban was serious about ending the conflict in Afghanistan, and that trying to take back the country by force was not consistent with peace efforts. Blinken, who was visiting Paris, acknowledged attacks on Afghan security forces were increasing before planned […]
SHANGHAI: The virus that causes Covid-19 could have started spreading in China as early as October 2019, two months before the first case was identified in the central city of Wuhan, a new study showed on Friday. Researchers from Britain’s University of Kent used methods from conservation science to estimate that SARS-CoV-2 first appeared from […]
New Delhi: Pakistan continues to remain in the ‘Grey List’ of FATF as the global body against money laundering and terror financing on Friday said that Islamabad has failed to take action against UN-designated terrorists like India’s most wanted Hafiz Saeed and Masood Azhar. The FATF also said that Pakistan should continue to work to […]
BEIJING: China is all set to operationalise the first electric train in the remote Himalayan region of Tibet, connecting the provincial capital Lhasa with Nyingchi – a strategically located Tibetan border town close to Arunachal Pradesh. The 435.5-km Lhasa-Nyingchi section of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway is expected to be inaugurated ahead of the centenary celebrations of […]
Washington:The Biden administration is stepping up preparation for relocating tens of thousands of Afghan interpreters and others who worked with US forces during the war to other countries as their applications for US entry are processed, a senior administration official said Thursday. The official said planning has accelerated in recent days to relocate Afghans, and […]
UNITED NATIONS: The Delta variant, the significantly more transmissible strain of COVID-19, is expected to become a “dominant lineage” if current trends continue, the WHO has warned after it was reported in 85 countries and continues to be detected in more places around the world. The COVID-19 Weekly Epidemiological Update released on June 22 by […]
Boston: Scientists have found signs of inflammation and neurodegeneration in the brains of individuals who died of Covid-19, similar to what is observed in people who die of conditions such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. The findings by researchers at the Stanford School of Medicine, US, and Saarland University in Germany may help explain why […]
Washington: The highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus is the “greatest threat” to America’s attempt to eradicate the COVID-19 pandemic, White House Chief Medical Advisor Dr Anthony Fauci has warned. Speaking at a White House briefing on COVID-19 on Tuesday, Fauci said the variant, which was first identified in India, now makes up more […]
WASHINGTON: Four members of the Saudi hit squad that killed US-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 had received paramilitary training in the United States that had been approved by the State Department, the New York Times reported late Tuesday. Khashoggi, a Saudi-born US resident who wrote for the Washington Post, was an outspoken critic of […]