Secretary of State of Mike Pompeo has notified Congress that the Trump administration no longer regards Hong Kong as autonomous from mainland China. “Hong
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Trump commemorates Memorial Day, defends decision to play golf
President Donald Trump paid tribute to fallen members of the American military on Monday to mark Memorial Day while defending his decision to spend
Now, China’s relations with Israel are in steep decline
China’s onetime cosy relations with Israel are now in steep decline and in line with a pattern which is emerging from Japan to India
China’s coronavirus diplomacy: Global saviour or ‘Wolf Warrior’?
China has played two roles in the global battle against the coronavirus: a benevolent donor of aid, filling the US void, and combative superpower
Afghan govt to free 900 prisoners; Taliban may extend truce
The Afghan government said it would free 900 prisoners on Tuesday, its single-largest prisoner release since the US and the Taliban signed a peace
Lock your cars! Vehicle theft spikes in COVID-19 pandemic in US
Holiday amid pandemic: Americans divided on how to respond
President Donald Trump played golf at one of his courses Saturday during the Memorial Day weekend as he urged US states to reopen after
China’s foreign minister says virus lawsuits ‘illegal’
Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi on Sunday said any lawsuits brought against China over the Covid-19 have “zero factual basis in law or international
The drive-in movie stages a comeback in US in coronavirus era
US Navy gets fourth new leader in six months
Kenneth Braithwaite, a retired rear admiral who currently serves as the US ambassador to Norway, was approved as the next Secretary of the Navy
US will be world’s premier pharmacy drug store and medical manufacturer: Donald Trump
“The global pandemic has proven once and for all that to be a strong nation, America must be a manufacturing nation…. Today, I’m declaring
Coronavirus came from China, US is not going to take it lightly, says Trump
Donald Trump in the last several weeks has been very critical of China’s inability to control the spread of the novel coronavirus within its
US envoy working to resuscitate flagging Afghan peace deal
The first visit to Kabul by Washington’s peace envoy since Afghanistan’s squabbling political leadership reached a power-sharing agreement comes amid increased violence blamed mostly
China rebuts Donald Trump accusation of coronavirus ‘mass killing’
Tensions between the US and China have been on the rise as the deadly coronavirus, which first surfaced in the central Chinese city of
US faces severe economic downturn as virus tolls fall in hardest-hit Europe
The world’s biggest economy faces a severe downtown but will not suffer another Great Depression, US Fed chief Jerome Powell said on Sunday, as
Obama was ‘grossly incompetent president’: Trump
S President Donald Trump on Sunday called his predecessor Barak Obama a ‘grossly incompetent president’. The Trump’s reaction came after Obama on Saturday criticised
US auto industry to begin reopening plants in recovery from pandemic
Alex Azar says ‘hopeful’ US schools will reopen in fall: Fox News interview
Trump says US reopening, ‘vaccine or no vaccine’
US Prez Trump says the US will reopen, “vaccine or no vaccine”, as he announced an objective to deliver a coronavirus vaccine by year-end.
Pakistani doctor planning to carry out ‘lone wolf’ terror attacks in US indicted
China calls on US to pay its debts to the United Nations
China on Friday issued a statement calling on all UN member states to “actively fulfil their financial obligations to the United Nations,” stressing that
US faces ‘darkest winter’ if pandemic planning falls short: Whistleblower
Despite White House claims, the US still lacks a comprehensive battle plan against the coronavirus in critical areas including masks, testing, treatments and vaccines,
US on track to pull troops from Afghanistan despite turmoil
The United States is on track to meet its commitment to the Taliban to withdraw several thousand troops from Afghanistan by summer, even as
US, China ties in tailspin amid punitive threats; India too caught in the middle
US President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to cut off ties with China in response to its role in spreading the coronavirus pandemic as
US military offers condolences over Iran accident killing 19
The U.S. military offered condolences Thursday to Iran over a friendly fire incident in the Islamic Republic that saw an Iranian missile kill 19
BMW CEO sees ‘very slow’ US recovery after corona rebound in China
Jobless immigrants in US rise 455% to 4.3 million in April
US says Chinese hacking vaccine research: Reports
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security are planning to release a warning about the Chinese hacking as governments and private firms race to
US will cross 10 million mark in conducting Covid-19 tests: Trump
President Donald Trump has said the US has increased the Covid-19 testing capacity and the number of tests being conducted in the country will
US adds 776 coronavirus deaths in 24 hours
The United States recorded 776 coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 79,522, according to the real-time tally by Johns