US FDA backs Pfizer’s COVID-19 booster shot for 12- to 15-year-olds (Updated)
The US Food and Drug Administration on Monday authorised the use of a third dose of the Pfizer and BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children ages...
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Russia, China, Britain, U.S. and France say no one can win nuclear war
China, Russia, Britain, the United States and France have agreed that a further spread of nuclear arms and a nuclear war should be avoided, according...
US honours Cyprus MP with anti-corruption award
Cypriot activist and MP Alexandra Attalides is among 12 individuals from across the world honoured by the US state department for their work to combat...
Parents of Michigan teen in school shooting charged with manslaughter
Prosecutors filed involuntary manslaughter charges on Friday against the parents of the Michigan teenager who authorities say fatally shot four classmates at his school earlier...
US has rock solid commitment to help Taiwan defend itself -official
Threats and coercion by China towards Taiwan increase the need for the United States to help Taiwan maintain a credible self-defence, the top US diplomat...
Biden and China’s Xi will hold virtual meeting on Monday
By Michael Martina, David Brunnstrom and Trevor Hunnicutt US President Joe Biden will hold a virtual meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Monday, the...
Auto-eugenics in America
Eugenics was a 20th-century pseudo-science that purported to improve the human breed by weeding out the ‘least fit’, often by measures like compulsory sterilisation or,...
Tatar criticises Biden’s recognition of Armenian genocide
Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar has criticised US President Joe Biden’s recognition of the genocide of Armenians in 1915. Tatar took to Twitter to “condemn...
Top US, Chinese diplomats clash at start of first talks of Biden presidency
The first high-level U.S.-China talks of the Biden administration got off to a fiery start on Thursday, with both sides leveling sharp rebukes of the...
Keeping up with shifting alliances
Cyprus has found itself in the middle of the US-Russia animus By Kyriacos Iacovides NEVER before have the foreign ministers of Russia and the United...
U.S. surpasses 160,000 coronavirus deaths as school openings near
More than 160,000 people have died from the coronavirus pandemic in the United States, nearly a quarter of the global total, according to a Reuters...
Trump says coronavirus under control, ‘It is what it is’
President Donald Trump said the coronavirus outbreak is as under control as it can get in the United States, where at least 155,000 people have...
A warning from Poland regarding the US elections
By Gwynne Dyer Few people outside of Poland care about the outcome of last Sunday’s presidential election there, but maybe they should. Andrzej Duda is practically...
U.S. divided over mask wearing and schools reopening as coronavirus cases surge
Divided Americans dug further into debates over mask mandates and schools reopening on Friday, with states and localities choosing conflicting strategies in the face of...
Man’s inhumanity to man in the time of corona
By Alper Ali Riza We know that black lives don’t matter in the US but to see a black guy asphyxiated in cold blood in...
Trump says terminating US relationship with World Health Organization over virus
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he is terminating the U.S. relationship with the World Health Organization over its handling of the coronavirus, saying...
Georgia, other U.S. states press ahead with early coronavirus reopening
Governors of about half a dozen U.S. states are pushing ahead with plans to begin a partial restart of their economies despite warnings that loosening...
In a first, Missouri sues China over coronavirus economic losses
Missouri on Tuesday became the first U.S. state to sue the Chinese government over its handling of the coronavirus, saying that China’s response to the...
We will defeat our shared pandemic enemy and rise stronger in its wake
By Judith Garber THE STORY of US leadership in the global battle against Covid-19 is a story of days, months, and decades. Every day, new...
New York’s Cuomo pleads for doctors, nurses from other states to aid its hospitals
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo called on Monday for healthcare workers elsewhere to help the state’s overwhelmed hospitals battle the coronavirus and made a plea...
