Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden scripted history last week when he selected 55-year-old Kamala Harris, also an African-American, as his running mate in the presidential election on November 3. Washington: Indian-origin Senator Kamala Harris’ vice presidential bid as a Democratic Party candidate is a historic moment for immigrants in the […]
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MINSK: Belarusian opposition politician Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya said today she was ready to lead Belarus and called for the creation of a legal mechanism to ensure that a new fair presidential election could be held. Speaking in a video address from Lithuania, she also urged security and law enforcement officers to […]
SEOUL: South Korea warned today of tighter novel coronavirus restrictions as new outbreaks appeared, including one linked to a church where more than 300 members of the congregation have been infected but hundreds more are reluctant to get tested. The outbreak linked to the Sarang Jeil Church in Seoul is […]
Community health volunteers check the temperature of a baby during a check up campaign for Covid-19 at a slum in Mumbai, India August 16, 2020. NEW DELHI: India’s death toll from the coronavirus hit 50,000 today, with more than 900 new fatalities reported in 24 hours, health ministry data showed. […]
WASHINGTON: The United States surpassed 170,000 coronavirus deaths yesterday, according to a Reuters tally, as health officials express concerns over Covid-19 complicating the fall flu season. Deaths rose by 483 yesterday, with Florida, Texas and Louisiana, leading the rise in fatalities. The United States has at least 5.4 million confirmed […]
LONDON: The British government was criticised by lawmakers in its own party today after a mounting row over English exam grades awarded during the pandemic intensified, in the latest hit to its reputation. With a nationwide lockdown forcing exams to be cancelled, the government used an algorithm to assess grade […]
About 5,500 Canada Revenue Agency accounts were targeted in this and another attack, the authorities said. TORONTO: Thousands of user accounts for online government services in Canada were recently hacked during cyber attacks, authorities said yesterday. The attacks targeted the GCKey service, used by some 30 federal departments and […]
Trump has been piling pressure on Chinese-owned companies, such as by vowing to ban short-video app TikTok from the United States. US President Donald Trump said on Saturday he could exert pressure on more Chinese companies such as technology giant Alibaba after he moved to ban TikTok. Asked at a […]
Harris’ mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was born in Chennai before she moved to the USA to pursue a doctoral degree at University of California Berkeley. Kamala Harris, the US vice-presidential candidate, on Saturday congratulated India on the progress “our people have made in the fight for justice” as she extended her […]
The president visited his brother at a New York City hospital on Friday after White House officials said he had become seriously ill. President Donald Trump’s younger brother, Robert Trump, a businessman known for an even keel that seemed almost incompatible with the family name, died Saturday night after being […]