Recently, the United States Transportation Command (US Transcom) released the results of testing which confirmed “very low” risk of COVID-19 transmission onboard an aircraft. This is good news for the airline industry which has been massively hit by the pandemic.

Bangkok: The authorities in Bangkok shut down mass transit systems and set up roadblocks Saturday as Thailands capital braced for a fourth straight day of determined anti-government protests. The protesters have been doing their best to elude the authorities, using social media to assemble followers before police have time to block them. The government h...

Auckland: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern achieved a landslide victory and secured a second term in office on Saturday in New Zealand's general election.

Pakistan’s former prime minister Nawaz Sharif has blamed army chief General Qamar Bajwa for toppling his government and installing Imran Khan in his place.

The US national security adviser has said that China was perpetrating “something close to” genocide with its treatment of Muslims in its Xinjiang region, Reuters reported. “If not genocide, something close to it is going on in Xinjiang,” Robert O’Brien told an online event hosted by the Aspen Institute on Friday, while highlighting other Chinese...

Terror struck France for the second time in three weeks, this time a history teacher was ruthlessly beheaded in Paris. The suspected attacker was shot and killed by police.

Washington: In "an unprecedented coordinated effort", India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the US Department of Justice took simultaneous actions against a technical support fraud scheme, which was allegedly masterminded by an American citizen and operated from call centres in India to defraud hundreds of elderly and vulnerable people in the US, o...

A latest survey among India Americans shows that almost half of Indian Americans approve of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s performance, but they support Democratic Party’s Joe Biden-- deep friendship between Modi and US President Donald Trump not withstanding. Almost half of Indian Americans (45%) said Kamala Harris’s pick as Vice-President nominee by Biden made them more likely to vote in the election.

Unitednations: China, Russia and Cuba won seats on the UN's premiere human rights body on Tuesday (October 13) despite opposition from activist groups over their abysmal human rights records, but another target, Saudi Arabia, lost. Russia and Cuba were running unopposed, but China and Saudi Arabia were in a five-way race in the only contested race for seats on...

Forrestcity: Just a week after his release from the hospital, President Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail on Monday (October 12) for the first time since contracting the coronavirus as he tries to stage a late comeback in the elections final stretch. "It's great to be back in my home state, Florida, to make my official return to the campaign trail,...

Washington: US President Donald Trump is no longer considered a transmission risk to others, the White House Physician has said, as the president held an in-person event on the White House lawns for the first time since contracting the COVID-19 disease.

Washington: US President Donald Trump on Saturday made his first public address after being discharged from hospital where he was treated for COVID-19 infection, assuring his supporters that he felt great.

Islamabad: The Pakistan government has disapproved of the two-finger test (TFT) performed on rape victims and recommended that it should not be part of any medico-legal examination report in sexual assault cases.

Washington: China has amassed 60,000 troops on India's northern border, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said as he hit out at Beijing for its "bad behaviour" and the threats it poses to the Quad countries.

Washington: China has attempted to "seize" control of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with India by force as part of its territorial aggression, US national security advisor has said, underlining that time has come to accept that dialogue and agreements will not persuade Beijing to change.

The US has called for closer ties with India, warning about China’s growing might on its doorstep, amid hectic diplomatic talks between the world’s two largest democracies. “They absolutely need the United States to be their ally and partner in this fight,” said Mike Pompeo, US Secretary of State, about his four-way meetings earlier this week in...

The second presidential debate between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden, scheduled for October 15, has been officially cancelled, the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates confirmed on Friday (October 9). “Each (candidate) now has announced alternate plans for that date,” the commission said in a statement. With the Octo...

Washington: US president Donald Trump, who has been battling COVID-19, has said that he will not take part in the second presidential debate with Democrat Joe Biden scheduled to be held virtually on October 15, saying that would be a “waste” of time.”No, I’m not going to waste my time on a virtual debate. That’s not what debating’s about,” he said in a telephone interview with Fox Business.

If there was one takeaway from the Vice Presidential debate, it is that of civility. The sitting Vice President Mike Pence and the running mate on the Democratic ticket Senator Kamala Harris might not have seen eye-to-eye on many or all issues between them and may have even been at odds on one or two occasions, but they made sure their debate did n...

Democratic vice-president nominee Kamala Harris described the Trump administrations handling of the COVID-19 pandemic as the 'greatest failure of any presidential administration in the history' of the US as she opened the only vice presidential debate with a sharp attack on Vice President Mike Pence, who leads the president's coronavirus task force.