NEW DELHI, India: India has reported a continuing decline in Covid infections, including a staggering 31 percent drop in the past week. As of Sunday, India reported 80,834 new Covid cases, the lowest in 73 days. This compares to 414,188 new cases on May 8. There were 630,666 in the past week, which is a […]

(Op-ed) Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies 17th June 2021, 03:04 GMT+10 The world has been treated to successive spectacles of national leaders gathering at a G7 Summit in Cornwall and a NATO Summit in Brussels. The U.S. corporate media have portrayed these summits as chances for President Biden to rally the leaders of […]

BEIJING, China: Twenty-seven Chinese officials are being investigated following the deaths of 21 runners last month during an ultramarathon in Gansu Province. The officials, including members of the Chinese Communist Party, face punishment and possible criminal charges, state-owned Xinhua news agency reported Friday. The Party’s secretary in the city of Baiyin and Baiyin Mayor Zhang […]

CARBIS BAY, England: U.S. President Joe Biden said on Sunday that Russia might be weaker than appears, noting that Moscow may well have over-reached by extending its military into the Middle East. Biden also called Putin an “autocrat”, agreeing that relations between the United States and Russia were at their lowest point in years. Biden […]

WASHINGTON D.C.: A heat wave is expected to strike the American west in the coming weeks, which will offer not only brutal temperatures, but continue for a prolonged duration. The National Weather Service has issued excessive heat watches and warnings for parts of central and Southern California, southern Nevada, western and southern Arizona and Utah. […]

LONDON, England: As a Covid variant has taken hold in Britain, plans to eliminate the remaining Covid restrictions might be delayed by one month. Plans had called for ending Covid restrictions on June 21. However, the fast spreading Delta variant from India has resulted in rising cases of new Covid infections in Britain. British Prime […]

What a difference a year makes in international diplomacy. A year ago, then-US President Donald Trump was obliged to abandon his plans for a G7 summit at the presidential retreat of Camp David outside Washington. Various excuses were advanced by participants, including the inadvisability of travelling across the world in the midst of a pandemic. […]

FORT WORTH, Texas: American Airlines will purchase flying taxis to ferry passengers high above the congestion of crowded cities. In moving ahead with flying taxis, American announced on Thursday that it will invest $25 million in Vertical Aerospace Group Ltd., a U.K.-based electric aircraft startup. American is looking to purchase as many as 250 of […]

Israel’s new patchwork coalition doesn’t hold much promise for Palestinians, who are fighting for self-determination, writes Dr Ibrahim Natil. THE REPERCUSSIONS of recent Israeli political shifts will affect not only Palestinian daily life but also Israeli society from various perspectives. The so-called “change government” led by Yair Lapid, president of the centrist Yesh Atid party […]

U.S. President Joe Biden meets with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin for the first time in Geneva Wednesday amid deteriorating relations between the world powers. The meeting takes place in the final hours of Biden’s first trip abroad as president that also has him attending the 47th G7 summit in the English city of Cornwall. In […]