US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has thanked South Africa for a swift and transparent approach to the emergence of the new, Omicron, variant of the coronavirus, US State Department Spokesperson Ned Price said....
A top US health expert has said that the Omicron strain of the COVID-19 is likely to spread widely....
An electronics store in Minnesota was looted by a group of 20 to 30 people on Black Friday, the Burnsville Police Department said....
Twenty-seven Russian diplomats will leave the United States on January 30, Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov said....
US President Joe Biden expressed his hope that Japan would increase its defence budget during a phone call with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in October, Japanese media reported on Saturday....
Across western higher education, elite institutions are normalizing authoritarian political systems--such as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)--when they should instead be under scrutiny....
The newly discovered Omicron variant of Covid-19 in South Africa has raised fears about the global trajectory of the pandemic, while some countries, including the United States, have raced to impose travel restrictions on southern African countries....
Russia and China have firmly rejected the US idea to hold the Summit for Democracy, saying it creates new dividing lines in the international community which contradicts the development of the modern world....
New York governor Kathy Hochul has signed a sweeping executive order hoping to smash staffing and capacity shortages at hospitals in any post-Thanksgiving spike in Covid-19 cases....
The US dollar recorded a deep decrease in late trading on Friday as demand for a safe haven shot up....
