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Military commanders of India and China hold fifth round of talks on border row

4:39 pm August 2, 2020

New Delhi: Senior military commanders of India and China are holding a fresh round of talks on Sunday with an aim to ensure expeditious disengagement of troops from all the friction points along the Line of Actual Control in eastern Ladakh, military sources said. It is the fifth round of corps commander-level talks in nearly two months with an aim to defuse […]

Scientists study coronavirus outbreaks among minks in Europe

4:34 pm August 2, 2020

Madrid: Coronavirus outbreaks at mink farms in Spain and the Netherlands have scientists digging into how the animals got infected and if they can spread it to people. In the meantime, authorities have killed more than 1 million minks at breeding farms in both countries as a precaution. The virus that first infected people in China late last year came from […]

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 […]

NASA launches Mars rover to look for signs of ancient life

6:27 pm July 30, 2020

Cape Canaveral : The biggest, most sophisticated Mars rover ever built — a car-size vehicle bristling with cameras, microphones, drills and lasers — blasted off Thursday as part of an ambitious, long-range project to bring the first Martian rock samples back to Earth to be analysed for evidence of ancient life. NASA’s Perseverance rode a mighty Atlas V rocket into […]

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, […]