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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 […]

Iran candidate tells AP: US attack risks ‘full-fledged war’

7:16 pm November 19, 2020

Tehran: An adviser to Iran‘s supreme leader who is a possible 2021 presidential candidate is warning that any American attack on the Islamic Republic could set off a “full-fledged war” in the Mideast in the waning days of the Trump administration. Speaking to The Associated Press, Hossein Dehghan struck a hard-line tone familiar to those in Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary […]

China perceives rising India as ‘rival’; wants to constraint its partnership with US, allies: report

12:08 pm November 19, 2020

Washington: China perceives a rising India as a “rival” and wants to constrain its strategic partnership with the US, its allies, and with other democracies, the State Department said in a report, emphasising that Beijing intends to displace America as the world’s foremost power. Coming ahead of the transition of power from Donald Trump’s administration to President-elect […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

US names first ambassador in decade to Venezuela amid tensions

11:54 am November 19, 2020

Caracas: Washington has its first ambassador to Venezuela in a decade despite the US having no diplomats at its Caracas embassy amid a breakdown in relations. James Story’s nomination as ambassador to Venezuela was confirmed on Wednesday by a US Senate voice vote. The South Carolina native takes the job that he will carry out from the […]

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 […]