Category: World

WELLINGTON – New Zealand security services did not focus enough on the threat from right-wing terror in the run-up to last year s Christchurch mosques attack, but could only have prevented the murders “by chance”, an inquiry reported Tuesday. The royal commission — the most powerful judicial probe available under New Zealand law — called for […]

NEW DELHI – Indian farmers who have been blockading New Delhi on Tuesday launched a one-day, nationwide general strike to push their demands for the government to repeal reform laws opening up trade in agricultural produce. Tens of thousands of farmers have been camped on the outskirts of the capital since November 27 in protest […]

WASHINGTON – A US Republican senator contesting a closely watched runoff election in Georgia was quarantining on Saturday after possibly being infected with Covid-19, her campaign said. Kelly Loeffler had campaigned with Vice President Mike Pence on Friday as well as David Perdue, another Republican Georgia senator up for re-election in the January 5 runoff […]

RIYADH – Saudi Arabia expects no major change in its relationship with the US under Joe Biden, a senior official told CNN, despite the president-elect pledging to turn the kingdom into a “pariah”. OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia, a close ally of President Donald Trump, has appeared wary of Biden after he promised a stern stance […]

NEW DELHI – Former US President Barack Obama’s revelations regarding Indian state terrorism has caused much uproar in India. In his book titled ‘The Promised Land’, Obama uncovered Indian conspiracies and state terrorism. A lawyer in India’s Uttar Pradesh has filed a suit against the former US President for defaming Indian leaders and hurting the […]

WASHINGTON – US biotech firm Moderna on Monday announced its experimental vaccine against Covid-19 was 94.5 percent effective, marking a second major breakthrough in the vaccine hunt. Moderna released early results from a clinical trial with more than 30,000 participants, after US pharmaceutical company Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech last week said their vaccine […]

LONDON – If coronavirus vaccinations are rolled out widely, life could return to “normal” by next winter, one of the scientists behind the front-running coronavirus vaccine told British television on Sunday. Ugur Sahin, the Turkish co-founder of German firm BioN, told the BBC s The Andrew Marr Show that “this winter will be hard” without any […]

GENEVA – The head of the World Health Organization hailed the rapid progress towards a Covid-19 vaccine but insisted Friday that every country must reap the benefits. “A vaccine will be a vital tool for controlling the pandemic, and we re encouraged by the preliminary results of clinical trials released this week,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, […]

WASHINGTON — Winston Churchill was not known for leaving his thoughts unspoken. One of them was this: “It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried.” President Donald Trump, who has professed admiration for, if not deep knowledge of, the British prime […]