By Humeyra Pamuk, Sakura Murakami, Kirsty Needham TOKYO/SYDNEY (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday visited Toyko to meet with some of Washington’s closest allies in Asia, Japan, Australia and India, to shore up support against what the United States says is China’s dangerous and growing regional influence. The visit, which was supposed to include […]
By Reuters Staff (Reuters) – U.S. commercial bankruptcy filings are up 33% so far this year with new cases in September surging by 78% from a year earlier as the recession triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic hits small businesses, data released on Monday showed. Filings by individuals, however, are lower so far this year courtesy of […]
By Reuters Staff SINGAPORE (Reuters) – China is in talks to have its locally-produced COVID-19 vaccines assessed by the World Health Organization, as a step toward making them available for international use, a WHO official said on Tuesday. Hundreds of thousands of essential workers and other groups considered at high risk in China have been […]
The head of the Nobel Committee, Thomas Perlmann, announced the winners in Stockholm. David Keytons and Frank JordansAssociated Press STOCKHOLM — Americans Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice, and British scientist Michael Houghton were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology on Monday for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus. Announcing the […]
US election 2020 Will the Kremlin be trying to “Keep America Great”? Is Beijing rooting for Biden? These questions are on the minds of the US intelligence community in the run-up to November’s vote. An assessment from a top official warns foreign powers will use “covert and overt influence measures” to try to sway US voters, singling […]
A team of scientists in India has developed an inexpensive paper-based test for coronavirus that could give fast results similar to a pregnancy test. The BBC’s Soutik Biswas and Krutika Pathi unpack how it works. The test, named after a famous Indian fictional detective, is based on a gene-editing technology called Crispr. Scientists estimate that […]
By Reuters Staff KABUL (Reuters) – Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani is travelling to Qatar for a bilateral meeting with Qatari leaders but will not hold a meeting with Taliban officials even as peace talks are underway in the country’s capital city Doha, officials said on Monday. Negotiations between the Afghan government and Afghan Taliban that started […]
By Alexandra Alper, Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Doctors treating President Donald Trump for COVID-19 sent conflicting signals about the severity of his condition on Sunday, hours before the president surprised supporters gathered outside the hospital with an impromptu motorcade. Doctors giving Trump steroid to fight COVID-19 Trump, 74, wore a mask as he waved from […]
BJP leader and former MLA Rajveer Singh Pahalwan held a mahapanchayat of upper caste men at his residence in Hathras. By Meryl Sebastian Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad on Sunday walked to meet the Hathras family after being stopped near Aligarh on his way to meet them, NDTV reported. Meanwhile, BJP leader and former MLA Rajveer Singh Pahalwan held […]
It was questioned if a brutal crime committed by upper caste Thakurs was even a ‘caste crime’ in the first place. By Riya Singh The recent gang-rape case of a 19 year old Dalit girl from Hathras, Uttar Pradesh had made it to the headlines of the popular newspapers and has also occupied the space […]
