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Pompeo says China's policies on Muslims amount to 'genocide'

Pompeo touts Iran policy in Gulf ahead of Biden presidency

7:37 pm November 22, 2020

Dubai: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday defended his tour of Gulf Arab states and the Trump administration’s continued efforts to squeeze Iran, even as a new US administration led by Joe Biden prepares to enter the White House in January. Although Pompeo has not taken questions from US-based reporters traveling with him over the past 10 days, he sat down with the […]

Joe Biden administration promises focus on environmental justice

Birthday time: Biden turns 78, will be oldest US president

11:33 am November 21, 2020

Washington: President-elect Joe Biden turned 78 on Friday. In exactly two months, he’ll take the reins of a politically fractured nation facing the worst public health crisis in a century, high unemployment and a reckoning on racial injustice. As he wrestles with those issues, Biden will be attempting to accomplish another feat: Demonstrate to Americans that age is but a number […]

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

Senator Alexander: Trump admin should aid in Biden transition

11:38 pm November 20, 2020

Nashville: US Senator Lamar Alexander said Friday that President Donald Trump‘s administration should aid President-elect Joe Biden in his transition, saying the Democrat has a “very good chance” of becoming the next president. “If there is any chance whatsoever that Joe Biden will be the next president, and it looks like he has a very good chance, the Trump Administration should provide the Biden team with all […]

WHO report on Wuhan virus mission expected soon

China will have to play by rules; US to rejoin WHO: Biden

11:43 am November 20, 2020

Washington: US President-elect Joe Biden has said that he wants to make sure that China plays by the rules and announced that his administration will rejoin the World Health Organisation. Biden was responding to a question on Thursday about his remarks during the presidential debates that he wanted to punish China over the way Beijing has been behaving. He […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Mexico says no more US trials for corrupt officials

11:49 pm November 19, 2020

Mexico City: Mexican officials said Thursday that a US agreement to return a former defence secretary accused of aiding drug traffickers will apply to any official accused of such corruption, and they will no longer be tried in the United States. The bombshell statement would end a decades-old tradition in which most of Mexico’s high-profile […]