UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday issued a statement to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the US which claimed the lives of almost 3,000 people....
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has written a letter to his US counterpart Joe Biden raising the need for a new strategy to deal with undocumented migrants, according to the Foreign Ministry here....
US President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Friday held a "broad, strategic discussion" during which the two leaders spoke of issues regarding mutual interest....
The global coronavirus caseload has topped 223 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 4.60 million and vaccinations soared to over 5.59 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University....
Initial jobless claims in the US dropped to 310,000 last week amid a Delta variant-fuelled Covid-19 resurgence, hitting a new low since the beginning of the pandemic early last year, the Labour Department said....
Declaring that "our patience is wearing thin" with the resistance to vaccination against Covid-19, US President Joe Biden has ordered companies with at least 100 workers to get them all inoculated or test the hold-outs weekly....
Daily marijuana use increased in 2020 to an all-time high among US college students over the past four decades, according to the University of Michigan's (UM) annual national Monitoring the Future (MTF) panel study....
The US Department of Justice has sued Texas over its new abortion law which would effectively ban most abortions, saying the state's statute is "unconstitutional". ...
Chicago Public Schools (CPS), the third largest school district in the US, has registered 89 student and 71 adult Covid-19 cases from August 29 till this week, an increase from the 39 infections initially reported, a media report said....
US President Joe Biden has announced sweeping new vaccine requirements, which may affect about 100 million Americans, as part of a new action plan to curb the surging Covid-19 cases driven by the highly contagious Delta variant....
