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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 […]

Nikki Haley and top Republican leaders call for US boycott of 2022 Winter Olympics in China

Haley warns Americans against not following law

11:53 pm November 16, 2020

Washington: Popular Indian-American Republican politician Nikki Haley on Monday criticised the violence that erupted on the streets of downtown Washington over the weekend and cautioned fellow Americans of the dangers of deviating from being a country of laws. Violence erupted on Saturday after thousands of supporters of US President Donald Trump held a protest rally […]

Biden admin rolls back Trump-era citizenship test, reverts to 2008 version

Trump putting democracy to the test after his loss to Biden

8:54 pm November 14, 2020

Washington: Winston Churchill was not known for leaving his thoughts unspoken. One of them was this: “It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried.” President Donald Trump, who has professed admiration for, if not deep knowledge of, the British prime minister, is putting […]

Biden shores up fragile ‘blue wall’ in industrial north

10:53 pm November 8, 2020

Washington: Joe Biden shored up the Democrats’ “blue wall,” — more sturdily in Michigan, more tenuously in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — to rebuild the party’s path back to the White House. And while The Associated Press had called all three states and their combined 46 Electoral College votes for Biden, the Democrat’s relatively narrow margins there reflect the […]

Joe Biden elected US President; Kamala Harris becomes vice-president-elect

11:41 pm November 7, 2020

Washington: Democrat Joe Biden on Saturday defeated incumbent Republican US President Donald Trump in the closely-fought presidential election, according to American media projections. The 77-year-old former US vice president will become the 46th president of the United States, CNN reported, after a victory in Pennsylvania, the state where he was born put him over the 270 electoral votes needed to win. With Pennsylvania’s […]