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Beijing: Amid escalating tensions between the US and China following House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan earlier in the week, Beijing said that it was halting co-operation with Washington in several key areas, including climate…

Washington:  The US killed al-Qaeda's top leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a drone strike in Afghanistan over the weekend dealing the terrorist group a major blow. Al-Zawahiri had overseen the September 11 attacks on the US in 2001 -- that…

Los Angeles: The BA.5 Omicron subvariant, now the dominant coronavirus strain in the US, made up nearly 80 per cent of new Covid-19 infections in the country, according to latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…

Washington: Gun violence spiked over the Fourth of July weekend and shootings were reported in nearly every US state, with at least 220 people killed and some 570 others injured, according to the Gun Violence Archive. Published tallies…

Washington: Medical experts are warning that the United States is at risk of losing control of the monkeypox outbreak due to sluggish government response, media report said. US President Joe Biden's administration "has been too slow to…

Kabui:  The US has confirmed holding talks on unfreezing Afghanistan's foreign reserves with a high-level Taliban delegation in Doha, media reports said. As the Taliban government seeks to get the Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB) assets, the…

Washington: The US has announced $820 million in additional security assistance for Ukraine which includes advanced anti-aircraft and aerial defense systems as well as additional ammunition for advanced rocket systems, the Department of…

New York: Americans are up in arms again, this time, on the Supreme Court 6-3 verdict on the Roe Vs Wade case that takes away a woman's legal right to abortion generally borne out of a decision to terminate pregnancy on grounds of rape,…

Washington: The US House of Representatives has passed a gun control legislation approved earlier by the Senate, breaking a congressional logjam that prevented reforms for 30 years. The bill is now headed for President Joe Biden's desk…

Hyderabad: A software engineer from Telangana was shot dead by an unidentified person in Maryland state of the US. Nakka Sai Charan (26), who hailed from Nalgonda district of Telangana, was killed when a person said to be a black man…