NORTH & SOUTH AMERICA

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CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

In Minneapolis, an immigrant street struggles to recover

12:30 am March 29, 2021

Minneapolis: Nearly all the wreckage along Lake Street has been hauled away. The fire-swept buildings have been torn down or repaired. The police station is empty, its entryway sealed with stacked concrete blocks like a street corner pharaoh’s tomb. The street, the focus of so much violence when protests raged through Minneapolis after George Floyd died in police custody, […]

Key players in trial of ex-officer charged in Floyd’s death

9:41 pm March 28, 2021

Minneapolis: Opening statements are set for Monday in the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer charged with murder and manslaughter in George Floyd’s death. Derek Chauvin’s trial is expected to last about four weeks and it will be streamed online. Floyd, who was Black, was declared dead on May 25 after Chauvin, who is white, […]

India tells overseas vaccine buyers it has to prioritise local needs

11:07 pm March 26, 2021

New Delhi: India, the world’s biggest vaccine maker, said on Friday it would make domestic COVID-19 inoculations a priority as infections surge and had told international buyers of its decision. Reports that India will delay deliveries of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine to a global programme to inoculate poorer countries triggered alarm on Thursday, with the head […]

Thousands without heat, water after tornadoes kill dozens

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry dies at 84

10:52 pm March 26, 2021

Dallas: Larry McMurtry, the prolific and popular author who took readers back to the old American West in his Pulitzer Prize-winning “Lonesome Dove” and returned them to modern-day landscapes in works such as his emotional tale of a mother-daughter relationship in “Terms of Endearment,” has died. He was 84. His death was confirmed Friday by […]

India, Canada take stock of ongoing cooperation

11:59 pm March 24, 2021

New Delhi: India and Canada on Wednesday carried out a comprehensive review of their bilateral cooperation in areas of trade and investment, energy, education and counter-terrorism. The two sides took stock of the ties at a virtual meeting held under the framework of India-Canada foreign office consultations. “Both sides undertook a comprehensive review of ongoing […]