WASHINGTON: Former Republican President Donald Trump’s recent comments touting Covid-19 vaccines as safe and a major achievement of his presidency have roiled extreme anti-vaxers, which include many of his ardent supporters. After months of a relatively low profile on vaccines and no photos of him getting inoculated, Trump on Dec. […]
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BEIJING: China’s foreign minister said today the United States will “face an unbearable price” over its actions towards the self-ruled island of Taiwan, in Beijing’s latest threat over the flashpoint island. Tensions between China and the US have soared in recent years over issues including human rights, trade and technological […]
Opening in late 1986, Brokdorf was the first nuclear reactor in the world to go into operation after the Chernobyl disaster. An icy wind is blowing across the Brokdorf nuclear power plant that stands between damp meadows and a dike covered in a thin layer of snow. A small group […]
Returned to China in 1997, Hong Kong has endured an overhaul of its political system and a crackdown on political dissent. As the days of 2021 dwindled, so did any remaining traces of democracy in Hong Kong. On Wednesday, a vocal pro-democracy media outlet – one of the last openly […]
Around 80% of NATO’s missions in the past year were in response to flights by Russian military aircraft flying too close to members’ airspace, the alliance has said. NATO fighter jets were scrambled hundreds of times this year to intercept aircraft, most of them Russian warplanes, the military alliance said […]
Harry Reid had been treated for pancreatic cancer, which was diagnosed in 2018, but lived to see the Las Vegas airport renamed for him earlier this month. Harry Reid, the Democrat who rose from childhood poverty in the rural Nevada desert to the heights of power in Washington, where he […]
The US Treasury Department declined to say whether the new license would exempt the proposed UN payments from US sanctions on the Taliban. The United States formally exempted on Wednesday US and UN officials doing permitted business with the Taliban from US sanctions to try to maintain the flow of […]
WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court agreed yesterday to take up disputes over the Biden administration’s nationwide vaccine-or-testing Covid-19 mandate for large businesses and a separate vaccine requirement for healthcare workers. The brief court order said the court will hear oral arguments on January 7 in the two cases, with rulings […]
WASHINGTON: Though he isn’t even a year into his first term, US President Joe Biden says one factor could help convince him to run again in 2024: a rematch against 2020 rival Donald Trump. “That would increase the prospect of running,” Biden told ABC News on Wednesday. When asked about […]
Kim’s comments were conveyed to Li by Choe Ryong Hae, a top official in the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea, state news agency KCNA said. Li also met with North Korean premier Kim Tok Hun, KCNA reported North Korean leader Kim Jong Un praised outgoing Chinese Ambassador Li Jinjun for […]