NOVEMBER 26, 2020
Policemen are deployed at the Haryana-New Delhi border to block protesting farmers from marching to the capital in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Nov.26, 2020. The farmer's have been protesting against the federal agriculture laws. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
NEW DELHI, INDIA — Thousands of Indian farmers clashed with police in northern Haryana state on Thursday during a protest demanding...
NOVEMBER 26, 2020
Market Tally. - Bloomberg
Good or just lucky, Joe Biden’s first three weeks in the stock market have been historically solid ones when measured against newly elected presidents of the past.
It’s obviously very early, but the market reality has been the opposite of what Donald Trump predicted for his rival -- a crash. Since Election Day, the...
NOVEMBER 26, 2020
CHENNAI, TAMIL NADU - Severe cyclone 'Nivar' would intensify into a very severe cyclonic storm and it is likely to cross the coast between Tamil Nadu and Puducherry before dawn on Thursday, the India Meteorological Department said.
Chennai airport will remain shut from 7 pm today to 7 am tomorrow as Cyclone Nivar approaches the Tamil Nadu coast.
Chief...
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
Dr. Mustafa Gerek participates in a coronavirus vaccine trial at Ankara City Hospital in Ankara, Turkey on October 13, 2020. Aytac Unal/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
Three companies developing COVID-19 vaccines — AstraZeneca, Moderna, and Pfizer — have released positive results from their late-stage trials.
Pfizer already applied for emergency authorization from the FDA. Its...
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak Presents Spending Plans. - Photographer: Bloomberg
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak’s move to cut the U.K.’s foreign aid budget opened a new rift within the ruling Conservative Party. It also masks a key political objective for Boris Johnson.
The prime minister won a landslide election last December by convincing Brexit-backing working-class...
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani speaks during a Pennsylvania Senate Majority Policy Committee public hearing, Nov. 25, 2020, in Gettysburg, Pa. - Samuel Corum/Getty Images
President Donald Trump phoned into a meeting of Pennsylvania Republican lawmakers to say he believes he was "cheated" out of a victory in the 2020 election and the outcome should be...
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
President Donald Trump gives a presidential ‘pardon’ to the National Thanksgiving Turkey Butter in the Rose Garden of the White House November 26, 2019 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
The dumbest of coups is almost over, no thanks to Republicans who stood idly by while Trump assaulted the democratic process and left the...
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
Prodigiously skilled footballer who captained Argentina to victory in the 1986 World Cup
Diego Maradona before the start of the World Cup final between Argentina and West Germany in Mexico City in 1986. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
Religious faith is a psychological prop for many a footballer, but Diego Maradona, who has died aged 60 after suffering a heart attack,...
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
The U.S. Capitol as seen on January 24, 2018. - John Shinkle/POLITICO
Top House and Senate appropriators on Tuesday clinched a deal on a bipartisan set of funding levels, paving the way for a $1.4 trillion spending package to avert a government shutdown next month.
The agreement on the funding allocations, confirmed by a House Democratic aide, establishes...
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
US President-elect. - Andrew Harnik/AP
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President-elect Joe Biden is moving quickly to take advantage of government resources for his transition to the White House after the Trump administration ended a 16-day stalemate and announced its intention to begin cooperating with his team.
Mr. Biden’s advisers are making plans to meet with career officials at executive agencies...
