NORTH & SOUTH AMERICA

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Longtime publishing editor Genevieve Young dead at 89

8:55 pm February 18, 2021

New York: Genevieve Young was a publishing editor with a long and diverse legacy. She entered the business in the early 1950s, when there were few female editors and even fewer Asians. She worked with authors ranging from Herman Wouk to Betty Rollin and played a key role in the writing of Erich Segal’s “Love Story,” the novelisation of the Oscar-winning movie of […]

NASA rover attempting most difficult Martian touchdown yet

11:49 pm February 17, 2021

Cape Canaveral: Spacecraft aiming to land on Mars have skipped past the planet, burned up on entry, smashed into the surface, and made it down amid a fierce dust storm only to spit out a single fuzzy gray picture before dying. Almost 50 years after the first casualty at Mars, NASA is attempting its hardest Martian touchdown yet. The rover named Perseverance is headed […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

US charges North Korean computer programmers in global hacks

11:40 pm February 17, 2021

Washington: The Justice Department has charged three North Korean computer programmers in a broad range of global and destructive hacks, including targeting banks and a movie studio, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. The newly unsealed indictment builds off an earlier criminal case brought in 2018 and adds two additional North Korean defendants. Prosecutors say all three programmers are members of a military […]

Stop vaccine nationalism, encourage internationalism: India at UNSC meeting on COVID-19

11:25 pm February 17, 2021

United Nations: India, which has shipped ‘Made In India’ COVID-19 vaccines to 25 countries, on Wednesday appealed the international community to stop ”vaccine nationalism” and actively encourage ”internationalism”, underlining that hoarding superfluous doses will defeat global efforts to attain collective health security and combat the deadly pandemic. Addressing the UN Security Council, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar outlined nine points […]

Biden describes life at the White House: ‘A gilded cage’

10:02 pm February 17, 2021

Washington: Four weeks into his presidency, Joe Biden says he’s still getting used to the trappings of the office. Biden offered a frank description of what it’s like to live at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. during his CNN town hall Tuesday night, referencing past presidents who have spoken of the building as a little like a […]