New York, January 21 (IANS): Getting to work soon after the inauguration festivities, President Joe Biden has signed orders for the US to rejoin the Paris Climate Accord and the World Health Organization (WHO)
Beijing, January 21 (IANS): A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced on Thursday that the government has decided to impose sanctions against former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and 27 other high-r
Dharamsala, January 21 (IANS): Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Thursday wrote to Joe Biden to offer his profound congratulations to the latter on becoming the 46th President of the US.
"As so
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), January 21 (AP): Zelia de Carvalho Morley rolled up a sleeve and looked stoically to the side as a nurse slid in a COVID-19 shot.
She was one of thousands in Brazil to get the shot o
Washington, January 21 (PTI): US President Joe Biden on Wednesday vowed to repair America's alliances and engage with the world once again, saying the country has been tested and its people have come out st
Washington, January 21 (PTI): US President Joe Biden has said his predecessor Donald Trump has left him a "very generous" letter in the Oval Office before departing the White House.
It is customary
Washington, January 21 (PTI): In her first remarks to the nation as US Vice President, Kamala Harris has highlighted "American aspiration" and underlined that President Joe Biden has summoned the peop
New York, January 20 (IANS): Joe Biden was sworn-in as President and Kamala Harris as Vice President in a historic ceremony to take the leadership of a nation ravaged by the Covid-19 pandemic and riven by deep
BEIJING, JANUARY 20 (IANS): Slamming the outgoing US President Donald Trump, state-run media outlet Global Times, citing Chinese experts, said on Wednesday that the changes that he has made to the China-US rela
Washington, January 20 (PTI): First-time Senator Kamala Harris, popularly called the "female Obama", created history by becoming the first woman, first Black and first Indian-American vice president o
ABU DHABI, JANUARY 20 (IANS): An hour's drive southeast of Abu Dhabi is the world's largest single-site solar plant. Located at Sweihan in Abu Dhabi, Noor Abu Dhabi (which means 'light' in Arabi
Washington, January 20 (PTI): Donald Trump on Wednesday skipped his successor Joe Biden's inauguration and exited the White House for the last time as president to board a flight to his Mar-a-Lago estate in
London, January 20 (AP): British Prime Minister Boris Johnson welcomed the start of a new UK-US chapter on Wednesday under incoming US President Joe Biden, even as his predecessor Theresa May accused Johnson of
BEIJING, JANUARY 20 (IANS): Xia Yan (29) from Xi'an, the capital city of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, is keen on time challenges.
Xia currently holds eight Guinness World Records for his mind-
BERLIN, JANUARY 20 (IANS): Thirty-two per cent of Europeans no longer believed that Americans can be trusted after electing Donald Trump as President in 2016, according to a pan-European survey of over 15,000 p
Harare, January 20 (AP): Zimbabwe's Foreign Minister Sibusiso Moyo, who gained prominence in 2017 as the military general who announced the coup against then-president Robert Mugabe on television, has died
JERUSALEM, JANUARY 20 (IANS): Israeli and Italian researchers have discovered that early humans about half a million years ago used stone chopping tools to break animal bones and consume the bone marrow, Tel Av
Brussels, January 20 (AP): The European Union's top officials breathed a sigh of relief on Wednesday that Joe Biden will be taking over as president of the United States, but they warned that the world has
Washington, January 20 (PTI): Hours after being sworn in as the 46th US president, Joe Biden would sign 15 executive orders -- including rejoining the Paris climate agreement, a 100-day mask mandate and reversi
Beijing, January 20 (AP): China's Foreign Ministry described outgoing US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday as a “doomsday clown” and said his designation of China as a perpetrator of g