US slams UN for electing authoritarian regimes like China at UNHRC
WASHINGTON: The United States Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, on Tuesday, slammed the United Nations for electing "authoritarian regimes" like China, Russia and Cuba...
Bangladesh rejects Chinese COVID vaccine trials
DHAKA: The clinical trial of an experimental Chinese COVID-19 vaccine developed by Sinovac Biotech in Bangladesh is now uncertain as the health ministry refused...
Is a Chinese invasion of Taiwan growing more likely
HONG KONG: Taiwan has always been the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) highest strategic priority, yet Beijing has felt the need to deepen its coercion...
Trump tests negative for Covid-19 WH doctor  
WASHINGTON: Donald Trump has tested negative for the novel coronavirus "on consecutive days", White House doctor Sean Conley said in the first public disclosure...
US Covid-19 cases surpass 7.8 million
NEW YORK: Covid-19 cases in the US have totalled 7,802,281, along with 214,045 deaths, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE)...
Trump asks campaign to schedule daily events until election
WASHINGTON: A media report has revealed that US President Donald Trump has asked his re-lection campaign to schedule events daily until the November 3...
NY Covid-19 test positivity rates more or less the same Cuomo
NEW YORK: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has said that the state's latest Covid-19 test positivity rates have remained more or less the same...
Trump claims he is immune to coronavirus
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump claimed on Sunday that he is now "immune" from the coronavirus, though medical research has suggested it is possible...
UK launches clinical trial of BCG vaccine against Covid-19
LONDON: As part of a large-scale global trial, scientists in Britain have launched a study to test if the widely-used Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine...
2nd Nepali cabinet minister tests Covid-19 positive
KATHMANDU: Girirajmani Pokharel, Nepal's Minister for Education, Science and Technology, has become the country's second cabinet minister to test positive for the novel coronavirus,...