BEIJING: The United States has ordered China to close its Houston consulate, Beijing said Wednesday (Jul 22), in what it called a “political provocation” that will further harm diplomatic relations. “China urges the US to immediately withdraw its wrong decision, or China will definitely take a proper and necessary response,” […]
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WASHINGTON: The US Justice Department on Tuesday (Jul 21) indicted two Chinese nationals over their role in what the agency called a decade-long cyber espionage campaign that targeted defence contractors, COVID-19 researchers and hundreds of other victims worldwide. US authorities said Li Xiaoyu and Dong Jiazhi stole terabytes of weapons […]
BRASILIA: A Chinese-made vaccine against COVID-19 entered the final stage of testing on Tuesday (Jul 21) in Brazil, where volunteers received the first doses of what officials hope will be a game-changer in the pandemic. The vaccine, developed by private Chinese pharmaceutical firm Sinovac, became the third in the world […]
SYDNEY: Residents of Australia’s second most populous city Melbourne must wear masks when leaving home from Wednesday (Jul 22), as tougher border restrictions were put in place with neighbouring New South Wales state to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Cross-border travel between Victoria and New South Wales (NSW) will now […]
NEW DELHI: The Indian cricket board (BCCI) will seek government permission to stage this year’s Indian Premier League (IPL) in the United Arab Emirates, league chief Brijesh Patel told Reuters on Tuesday (Jul 21). Monday’s postponement of this year’s Twenty20 World Cup, which had been scheduled to take place in […]
CHICAGO: Early data from trials of three potential COVID-19 vaccines released on Monday (Jul 20), including a closely watched candidate from Oxford University, increased confidence that a vaccine can train the immune system to recognise and fight the novel coronavirus without serious side effects. Whether any of these efforts will […]
NEW YORK: This spring, as countries around the world told people to stay home to slow the spread of the coronavirus, doctors in neonatal intensive care units were noticing something strange: Premature births were falling, in some cases drastically. It started with doctors in Ireland and Denmark. Each team, unaware […]
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump expressed a willingness on Tuesday (Jul 21) to work with China or other countries to bring a successful coronavirus vaccine to the United States, despite rising tensions between Beijing and Washington. “We’re willing to work with anybody that is going to get us a good […]
LONDON: AstraZeneca’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine was safe and produced an immune response in early-stage clinical trials in healthy volunteers, data showed on Monday (Jul 20). The vaccine is called AZD1222 and is being developed by AstraZeneca and scientists at Britain’s University of Oxford. It did not prompt any serious side […]
BEIJING: China warned Monday (Jul 20) that Britain was heading down “a wrong path” as Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab was expected to announce the suspension of an extradition treaty with Hong Kong, raising tensions between the countries. Wang Wenbin, spokesman for China’s foreign ministry, told a regular press briefing that […]