Louisiana residents may be in the dark for days as officials take stock of the damage from Hurricane Ida, which has been downgraded to a tropical storm. Ida made landfall on Sunday with 150mph (240km/h) winds, the fifth strongest to ever hit the US mainland. About one million locals remain without power. “It’s going to […]
US drone strikes The US military says it believes it has killed a planner for a branch of the Islamic State (IS) group in a drone strike in eastern Afghanistan. The suspected member of the IS-K group was targeted in Nangahar Province. IS-K said it had carried out an attack outside Kabul airport on […]
Coronavirus pandemic The US intelligence community has been unable to determine the origins of Covid-19, and is split on whether it leaked from a lab or developed in nature, according to a new report. The report issued by the office that oversees the nation’s 18 spy agencies did conclusively determine that it was not […]
Coronavirus pandemic The US Supreme Court has ruled to allow evictions to resume across the country. It blocked the Biden administration’s Covid-related moratorium on evictions, which would have extended protections to millions of Americans. The moratorium was first put in place a year ago to combat homelessness during the Covid pandemic. All three liberal […]
Coronavirus pandemic A US intelligence report requested by President Biden into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic is inconclusive, US media reports say. Agencies are reportedly divided on whether the virus – first seen in China – was the result of a natural spillover from animals to humans or was caused by a laboratory […]
After scrambling for days to bring them to safety, nine members of an Afghan all-girls robotics team have arrived in Qatar, the team’s parent organisation has confirmed.Their flight out of Afghanistan was organised by the Qatar government, which expedited visas and sent an aircraft.The team first made headlines in 2017 after winning a special award […]
Britney Spears’ father has agreed to step down as the singer’s conservator after 13 years, US media report. The singer’s career has been in the hands of legal guardians since public concerns over her mental health in 2008. The court-ordered agreement gave her father, Jamie Spears, control over her estate and other aspects of her […]
By Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, Washington The US says children born abroad using assisted reproductive technology can now qualify for citizenship, in a move seen as a win for same-sex couples. To be eligible before, babies born overseas needed to be genetically related to the American parent. The change follows lawsuits from couples whose […]
September 11 attacks Family members of the victims of the 11 September 2001 terror attacks have called on President Joe Biden to stay away from memorial events unless he declassifies files about the attacks. Nearly 1,800 people signed a letter calling on him to release documents that they believe implicate officials from Saudi Arabia […]
Two Myanmar citizens have been arrested in the US for allegedly plotting to kill or injure Myanmar’s UN ambassador. The US attorney’s office in New York said Phyo Hein Htut and Ye Hein Zaw had planned to hire attackers to force Kyaw Moe Tun to step down. He is a vocal critic of Myanmar’s military […]
