New York: There are two Indian-origin candidates running for the US Vice President in the November 3 election — Democrat Kamala Harris and Sunil Freeman, who is on the ticket of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL). While Harris has been in the limelight, often reviled by President Donald Continue Reading

Paris: French police have said three people have been killed and several others injured in a knife attack. The knife attack took place near a church in the Mediterranean city of Nice. The assailant was arrested after the Thursday morning attack. He was taken to a nearby hospital after being Continue Reading

Washington: American federal agents have issued a warning that a major ransomware assault was underway against US hospitals, threatening the country’s healthcare system. The advisory on Wednesday was issued by a joint federal task force that includes the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Department of Health and Human Services Continue Reading

Washington: Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has cast an early ballot in his home state of Delaware for the November 3 election, saying that he will work with the Republicans on improving the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to give Americans better healthcare. “Well, we just voted,” Biden said on Wednesday, Continue Reading

London:  Drugmakers Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline have agreed to provide 200 million doses of their potential COVID-19 vaccine to the COVAX Facility, a collaboration designed to give countries around the world equal access to coronavirus vaccines.  The Sanofi-GSK vaccine candidate is in early stage trials, with results expected in early December. Continue Reading

Islamabad: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) reprimanded Wednesday the Pakistan government for incarcerating some Indian nationals who have served their sentences in terrorism and espionage cases. The High Court ordered the Pakistan government to send the Indians back, according to a media report. In a hearing over petitions submitted by Continue Reading

Milkwaukee (US): US President Donald Trump has said that the 2020 presidential election is a choice between a ‘super’ economic recovery led by his administration or a ‘Biden depression’ as he targeted his Democratic challenger Joe Biden. With just seven days left for the most crucial American presidential election in Continue Reading

New York:  Disgraced self-improvement guru Keith Raniere, whose NXIVM followers included millionaires and Hollywood actors, was sentenced to 120 years for turning some adherents into sex slaves branded with his initials and sexually abusing a 15-year-old. US District Judge Nicholas Garaufis Tuesday called Raniere “ruthless and unyielding” in crimes that Continue Reading

Beijing:  China Wednesday said its border standoff with India in eastern Ladakh is a bilateral issue, and asked the US to stop its Indo-Pacific strategy, terming it as an attempt to impose American hegemony in the region. The remarks by the Chinese Foreign Ministry came a day after Secretary of Continue Reading

Washington: The CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google are facing a grilling by Republican senators making unfounded allegations that the tech giants show anti-conservative bias. The Senate Commerce Committee has summoned Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Google’s Sundar Pichai to testify for a hearing Wednesday. The executives Continue Reading