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‘That was easy’: US vice president-elect Kamala Harris gets Moderna Covid-19 vaccine

US vice president-elect Kamala Harris received her first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine on live television on Tuesday as the incoming Biden administration seeks to boost confidence in the shots. She received her first dose of the Moderna vaccine...

US president Trump presents Legion of Merit to PM Modi

US President Donald Trump on Monday presented the prestigious Legion of Merit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his leadership in elevating strategic partnership of the two countries and emergence of India as a global power. India’s Ambassador to the...

US president-elect Joe Biden receives Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine shot on live television

US President-elect Joe Biden received his first injected dose of the Covid-19 vaccine live on television on Monday in an effort to boost confidence in its safety ahead of its wide distribution next year. Biden has said he would make...

Biden suggests ‘foul play’ in political efforts to target son

Joe Biden said Thursday that he believed efforts to use his son as a political cudgel amounted to “foul play” amid a federal investigation into Hunter Biden’s tax matters and Republican calls for a special counsel investigation into his...

US to blacklist dozens of Chinese firms including SMIC: Report

The United States is set to add dozens of Chinese companies, including the country’s top chipmaker SMIC, to a trade blacklist on Friday, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday. The move, which has not previously been...

Trump administration wants WTO leadership race reopened. Here’s why

After the United States tried to block the appointment of Nigeria’s ex-finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the chief of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in October, the Trump administration has suggested that it wants the race for the leadership...

Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine ‘overwhelmingly approved’, distribution to start soon, says US President Trump

President Donald Trump said Friday that the United States has authorized a second coronavirus vaccine, jumping the gun on regulators who have yet to give it the formal green light. “Moderna vaccine overwhelmingly approved. Distribution to start immediately,” he wrote...

Vladimir Putin finally congratulates Joe Biden on winning US presidency

Russian President Vladimir Putin sent Joe Biden a congratulatory telegram after the Electoral College formalized his victory in the November 3 election, making him among the last world leaders to recognize the US president-elect. Putin wished Biden luck and said...

‘Trump was directionally right with China, hope Biden remains tough’: US senator at HTLS 2020

“I can’t predict what Donald Trump is going to do,” US senator from the Commonwealth of Virginia, Mark Warner told president and CEO, US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF), Dr Mukesh Aghi, in the opening session of the final day...

Donald Trump has raised $20S7.5 million since election day to fight lawsuits

President Donald Trump and his party raised $207.5 million in a less than three-week stretch after the US election, fueled by outrage-filled solicitations to donors as he waged an unsuccessful challenge of the results. Money flooded into Trump’s coffers at...

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Canada to Phase Out Remote Border Crossing Permits, Introduce Phone Reporting by 2026

Canada is preparing to end a long running remote border entry system used along parts of the U.S. border,...