MAY 21, 2020
India and China flags. - Getty Images
The Centre on Thursday denied any suggestion that it has taken activity across the Line of Actual Control (LAC), it termed the reports as “not accurate”.
“Any suggestion that Indian security forces have undertaken activity across the Line of Actual Control (LAC) is not accurate. We are fully aware of responsibility. In...
MAY 21, 2020
A pharmaceutical company says it has secured orders for at least 400m doses of an unproven Covid-19 vaccine that it will start delivering this year.
AstraZeneca announced on Thursday that it had “concluded the first agreements” to make the University of Oxford‘s potential coronavirus vaccine.
The British-Swedish drugmaking giant said earlier this week it had secured manufacturing capacity for...
MAY 21, 2020
Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper, shown earlier this month with President Trump, has said Russia has violated the treaty for many years. - Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images
The Trump administration began privately informing allied nations this week that the United States will withdraw from a nearly 30-year-old treaty designed to reduce the chances of an accidental war between Russia...
MAY 21, 2020
Covid-19 testing in the northeastern Chinese city of Shulan, in a photo released this week by state media.
In Shulan, a city in China’s northeast, the streets are eerily quiet, devoid of taxis and buses. Apartment complexes have been sealed off, confining residents inside. Teams of government workers go door to door rounding up sick people as part...
MAY 20, 2020
Beijing is accelerating its bid for global leadership in key technologies, planning to pump more than a trillion dollars into the economy through the rollout of everything from wireless networks to artificial intelligence.
In the masterplan backed by President Xi Jinping himself, China will invest an estimated $1.4 trillion over six years to 2025, calling on urban governments...
MAY 20, 2020
China's President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump are increasingly divided by the coronavirus pandemic. - Brendan Smialowski
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday again lashed out at China over the coronavirus pandemic, blaming Beijing for "mass Worldwide killing."
His early morning tweet, which also referred to an unidentified "wacko in China," was the latest heated rhetoric...
MAY 20, 2020
An empty pool is viewed at an apartment complex awaiting reopening as Memorial Day approaches amid the coronavirus pandemic, May 14, 2020, in Arlington, Virginia. - Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images
If you're heading to the pool this summer, you'll have to bring your swim cap, goggles, towel -- and face covering.
The Centers for Disease Control and...
MAY 20, 2020
US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. - Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Mitch McConnell promised House Republicans Wednesday that the beefed up unemployment benefits enacted earlier this spring "will not be in the next bill."
The Senate majority leader told the House GOP minority in an afternoon phone call that he is comfortable waiting to see how the nearly $3 trillion...
MAY 20, 2020
Signage reminds people to "Do Your Part Stay 6 Feet Apart" on Lincoln Mall on May 20 in Miami Beach, Florida.
A new analysis being reviewed by the White House shows southern states that moved too quickly to relax social distancing guidelines face significant risk for a resurgence of the coronavirus over the next several weeks. In several...
MAY 20, 2020
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel (D) is imploring President Trump to adhere to health guidelines and wear a facial covering when he visits a Ford ventilator assembly plant in her state later this week.
In an open letter sent to the president on Wednesday, Nessel noted that under Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's (D) stay-at-home order, manufacturers are required...
