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Will get COVID-19 under control by listening to experts: Kamala Harris

Here’s what VP candidate Kamala Harris’ Delhi based uncle said

9:56 pm August 13, 2020

New Delhi: US Senator Kamala Harris’ nomination as the vice presidential candidate is a “historic moment” but it is not a surprise at all, her proud uncle said here on Wednesday. Gopalan Balachandran, Harris’ maternal uncle, said she will script many firsts if she wins and expressed the hope her top-level position will give Indians […]

‘One of us’: South Asians celebrate Kamala Harris as VP choice

9:32 pm August 13, 2020

Chicago: Two words summed up Tamani Jayasinghe’s exuberance for the first Indian American and Black woman to run for vice president: “Kamala Aunty.” That title of respect that goes beyond family in Asian circles immediately came to mind when Joe Biden announced Kamala Harris as his running mate. So the 27-year-old with Sri Lankan roots […]

Biden shores up fragile 'blue wall' in industrial north

Biden eyes major foreign policy shifts if he wins

11:43 pm August 1, 2020

Washington: Should former Vice President Joe Biden win the White House in November, America will likely be in for a foreign policy about-face as Biden reverses, dismantles or severely curtails many of President Donald Trump’s most significant and boldest actions. From the Middle East to Asia, Latin America to Africa and, particularly, Europe, and on issues including trade, terrorism, arms control and immigration, the presumptive Democratic nominee and his […]

Singapore hopes US can stabilise its ties with China: PM Lee

7:34 pm July 29, 2020

Singapore: Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has said that he hope the US will stabilise its ties with China as Asia depends on a stable relationship between the world’s two biggest economies to have a secure and predictable environment to prosper. Lee, who was re-elected prime minister, was speaking at a virtual dialogue organised by the Atlantic Council, an American think-tank, […]

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China, S Korea, Japan see upticks in COVID cases

1:27 pm July 29, 2020

Beijing: China reported more than 100 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday as the country continues to battle an outbreak in Xinjiang. The 101 new cases was China’s highest daily increase in weeks. The northwestern region of Xinjiang accounted for 89, with another eight in the northeastern province of Liaoning and one in Beijing. Another […]