WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Monday named an outspoken critic of US military deployments as ambassador to Germany, as he moves to pull troops from the NATO ally. The White House said that Trump had nominated retired colonel Douglas Macgregor, a frequent commentator on Fox News who has written about […]
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REUTERS: Moderna’s vaccine against COVID-19 could be ready for widespread use by the end of this year, US and company officials said on Monday (Jul 28), after the drugmaker announced the start of a 30,000-subject trial to demonstrate it is safe and effective, the final hurdle prior to regulatory approval. […]
WASHINGTON: The United States and Australia on Monday (Jul 27) opened top-level talks in which they are expected to seek a common front amid soaring tensions between Washington and Beijing. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defence Secretary Mark Esper welcomed to Washington their Australian counterparts, Marise Payne and […]
BEIJING: China on Monday (Jul 27) said it was not aware of the case involving Singaporean Dickson Yeo and urged the United States to “stop using the so-called espionage issue to smear” the country. Yeo pleaded guilty last week in the US to working for Chinese intelligence. The former National […]
PARIS: The unprecedented social and economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic will see nearly 7 million more children experience stunting as a result of malnutrition, the United Nations said on Tuesday (Jul 28). Even before COVID-19 there were an estimated 47 million children under five who were moderately or […]
MORRISVILLE, North Carolina: President Donald Trump wore a mask and talked up the possibility of a coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year on Monday (Jul 27) as he looked to show voters in the battleground state of North Carolina that he is responding to the pandemic. Trump, whose […]
Hyundai Motor Co, an early backer of hydrogen cars, has watched the electric rise of Tesla, including on its home turf. Now’s it’s going on the offensive in the battery-powered market led by its U.S. rival. SEOUL: Hyundai Motor Co, an early backer of hydrogen cars, has watched the electric […]
LIMA: A staggering more than 900 girls and women are missing and feared dead in Peru since the COVID-19 confinement began, authorities said on Monday (Jul 27). The Andean nation home to 33 million people long has had a horrific domestic violence problem. But COVID-19, which has compounded home confinement […]
REUTERS: CONCACAF has unveiled a new qualification format for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar after COVID-19 forced a rejig of the usual system, the governing body for soccer in North and Central America and the Caribbean said on Monday. The new format, which will feature all 35 of the […]
OTTAWA: Lawyers for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on Monday (Jul 27) demanded the release of unredacted Canadian spy service documents they say would reveal a plot between the FBI and Canada to “trick” their client. Meng, the Chinese telecom giant’s chief financial officer, was arrested on a US warrant in […]