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Washington:US President Joe Biden's administration plans to buy 500 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine and donate them among about 100 countries over the next year, according to media reports on Thursday, citing people…

Washington: More than 300 million coronavirus vaccine shots have been administered in the US so far, according to figures from the country's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Some 63.5 per cent of all adults in the…

Taipei: The US will donate 750,000 Covid-19 vaccine doses to Taiwan, Senator Ladda Tammy Duckworth said here on Sunday. "It was critical to the US that Taiwan be included in the first group to receive vaccines, because we recognise your…

New York: The US tariff war against India has been reinvigorated by President Joe Biden threatening to increase import duties on a range of imports, from prawns and Basmati rice to furniture and jewellery, in retaliation against New Delhi…

Washington: An unruly US passenger was arrested after he allegedly tried to breach the cockpit on a Delta Air Lines flight from Los Angeles to Nashville, said authorities Friday. Delta on Friday expressed the company's gratitude in a…

Washington: As the US doubled down on vaccinating adults in March and April, Covid hospitalisation rates teenagers (between 12 and 17 years old) went significantly up and many were seriously sick, a new Centers for Disease Control and…

Washington: The US government said that it has decided not to rejoin the Open Skies Treaty, a multilateral arms control agreement abandoned last year by the administration of former President Donald Trump. "The US regrets that the Treaty…

Washington:  For the first time in 11 months, the daily average of new coronavirus infections in the US fell below 30,000 amid continuing signs that most communities are emerging from the worst of the pandemic, but the progress has not been…

Washington: A new survey has revealed that the Covid-19 pandemic in the US will not come to an end until children are vaccinated against the disease. The New York Times on Monday quoted epidemiologists as saying in the survey that the…

Washington: US President Joe Biden signed an executive order that will revoke several measures issued by his predecessor Donald Trump. The order signed on Friday will revoke the measure to establish a "National Garden of American Heroes"…