United States: Donald Trump, challenger Joe Biden and their top surrogates barrelled through crucial states in the industrial Midwest and coastal southeast yesterday, pressing closing arguments in a frantic sprint days ahead of the US presidential election. Using some of his most urgent language yet, Trump warned of “bedlam in […]
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WASHINGTON: The White House coronavirus task force has warned that much of the country is in the grips of an “unrelenting” rise in Covid-19 cases, urging tough countermeasures, while at least nine states yesterday reported record daily increases in new infections. The hardest-hit regions in the West and Midwest encompass […]
TAMPA: Donald Trump and Joe Biden dueled over the crucial state of Florida yesterday, painting radically different visions of the United States as big new GDP figures showed the economy getting back on track even as the Covid-19 pandemic accelerates again. With Trump touting an early end to the health […]
However, campaigning in Wimington, Delaware, Biden did promise “we will start on day one doing the right things.” President Donald Trump, on the other hand, has pledged to “vanquish the virus.” Focused firmly on Covid-19, Joe Biden vowed Wednesday not to campaign in the election homestretch “on the false promises […]
Appeals for better coordination have become louder amid a resurgence of the epidemic in Europe after a relative lull in the summer months. EU leaders aim to make progress on common testing and vaccination strategies at a video conference on Thursday and step up coordination in fighting the fast-expanding Covid-19 […]
Trump, who voted in Florida last Saturday, is rallying supporters in Arizona on Wednesday, defending a traditionally Republican state he won in 2016. Democratic candidate Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden cast their votes in their hometown of Wilmington, Delaware on Wednesday after a speech on his plans to […]
The cartoon depicted Erdogan in his underwear holding a drink and lifting the skirt of a woman wearing an Islamic dress. Turkish officials on Wednesday railed against French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo over its cover-page cartoon mocking Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and accused it of sowing “the seeds of […]
WASHINGTON: More than 70 million Americans have cast ballots in the US presidential election, more than half the total turnout of the 2016 election with one week to go until Election Day, according to a Tuesday (Oct 28) tally from the US Elections Project. The tally, which shows a record-breaking […]
NEW DELHI: The United States and India must work together to confront the threat posed by China to security and freedom, US Secretary Mike Pompeo said toay as he prepared for talks with Indian leaders. Pompeo arrived in New Delhi yesterday along with Defense Secretary Mark Esper for an annual […]
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia, birthplace of Islam, today condemned cartoons offending the Prophet Muhammad and any attempts to link Islam with terrorism but did not echo calls by other Muslim states for action against images being displayed in France of the Prophet. A foreign ministry official also said in a statement […]