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Published by Reuters By Susan Cornwell and Makini Brice WASHINGTON (Reuters) -After a daylong standoff, Democrats set aside divisions between progressives and centrists to pass a $1 trillion package of highway, broadband and other infrastructure improvement, sending it on to President Joe Biden to sign into law. The 228-to-206 vote late on Friday is a […]

Published by Reuters By Neha Arora and Mayank Bhardwaj NEW DELHI (Reuters) – New Delhi residents woke up on Friday under a blanket of smog darkening the city, the most dangerous air pollution of the year after Diwali revellers defied – as usual – a fireworks ban during India’s annual Hindu festival of lights. New

Published by AFP Washington (AFP) – Indonesia, hard-hit by the coronavirus pandemic, became the first country to approve the new vaccine for Covid-19 created by US-based Novavax, the company announced Monday. The approval will give Indonesia, which has strained to obtain adequate supplies of coronavirus vaccine for its 270 million people, first access to the

Published by AFP Washington (AFP) – As Joe Biden sought to project US leadership on the world stage at a climate summit in Scotland on Monday, he was banking his legacy at home on crucial votes on his domestic agenda and a state election seen as an early referendum on his presidency. Biden met global

Published by Reuters By Yimou Lee TAIPEI (Reuters) -The top U.S. representative in Taiwan, Sandra Oudkirk, said on Friday that the United States is committed to helping Taiwan defend itself amid heightened tensions between Taipei and Beijing. Speaking to reporters at her first news conference since assuming her post in July, she described U.S. relations

Published by Reuters By Jonathan Landay and Michelle Nichols WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – The United Nations cannot get enough cash into Afghanistan to deliver humanitarian aid to millions of people on the brink of starvation and is struggling to develop options to help stabilize the collapsing economy, U.N. officials said. Ultimately political solutions are needed,

Published by Reuters By Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) – If high-stakes climate talks are to succeed next month in Glasgow, the initial signs of progress may emerge this weekend when leaders of the world’s 20 biggest economies hold their first face-to-face meeting in two years. Big obstacles lie in the way. The G20 is divided

Published by Reuters BEIJING (Reuters) -A former vice mayor of a Chinese town on the border with Myanmar lamented local lockdowns and disruptions caused by repeated COVID-19 outbreaks and wrote a rare plea for a “strong” helping hand from Beijing. Ruili, in the province of Yunnan, has faced some of the toughest curbs in the

Published by Al-Araby Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh on Wednesday called on the European Union (EU) to take action against Israel in response to its expansion of illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. In a meeting with the President of the European Council, Charles Michel at the Council headquarters in Brussels, Shtayyeh urged the

Published by Al-Araby Residents of an Iraqi village have killed 11 people in retaliation for a deadly attack claimed by the so-called Islamic State group, an Iraqi security official said. The inhabitants of the majority Shia village of Al-Rashad in the eastern Diyala province killed 11 people on Wednesday in the predominantly Sunni neighbouring hamlet