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Minimal diversity of coronavirus suggests global vaccine is feasible: Study

2:52 pm September 2, 2020

Washington: Scientists have assessed the genome sequences of the novel coronavirus from more than 27,000 individuals with COVID-19, and found that the virus has mutated minimally since the beginning of the outbreak in China in December 2019, suggesting one vaccine would be sufficient to combat global infections. The study, published in the journal PNAS, characterised the diversification of […]

Trump slams media for 'blocking' alleged graft cases against Biden

We just have to make this ‘China virus’ go away and it’s happening: Trump

11:13 am August 25, 2020

Washington: Americans have to “make this China virus go away” and it is happening, President Donald Trump has said, as he thanked the frontline workers for their incredible efforts to combat the coronavirus pandemic. Trump appeared in a taped Oval Office conversation with a group of frontline workers – doctors, nurses, firemen, policemen, postal workers. This was not the first time […]

Chinese are on march to prove their importance, are taking up vacuum that US created: Albright

US agents enter Chinese consulate compound in Houston; Beijing lodges protest

10:35 pm July 25, 2020

Houston: US federal agents and law enforcement officers have entered the Chinese consulate compound here along with locksmiths after the mission was shut down, amidst spiralling tensions between Washington and Beijing. The Trump administration ramped up its confrontation with China this week, ordering Beijing’s consulate in Houston to close over concerns about economic espionage. The Chinese consulate located in Houston’s busy Montrose Boulevard for 40 […]

US orders China to close consulate in Houston to ‘protect American intellectual property’

9:50 pm July 22, 2020

Beijing: The United States said Wednesday that it has ordered China to close its consulate in Houston “to protect American intellectual property” and the private information of Americans. China strongly condemned the move, the latest in a series of steps by the Trump administration as it ratchets up pressure on the world’s second-largest economy over […]

Will Trump's mishandling of records leave a hole in history?

Trump’s ‘strong wall’ to block COVID-19 from China had holes

9:03 pm July 4, 2020

Washington DC: US President Donald Trump has repeatedly credited his February ban on travellers from mainland China as his signature move against the advance of the coronavirus pandemic — a “strong wall” that allowed only US citizens inside, he boasted in May. But Trump’s wall was more like a sieve. Exempted were thousands of residents of the Chinese territories […]