The Canadian federal government has announced that it will suspend vaccination requirements against Covid for domestic and outbound travel, federally regulated transportation sectors and federal government employees as of June 20. ...
The United States has said that the first summit of the leaders of a new group of four nations -- the US, India, Israel, and the UAE -- will be held virtually during President Joe Biden’s visit next month to West Asia....
San Francisco Mayor London Breed and the city's police chief William Scott announced a grant of $6 million towards a gun violence prevention programme....
Air pollution can shorten lives by almost 10 years in Delhi, the world's most polluted city, says a report by a US research group. ...
US Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra has tested positive for Covid-19 for the second time in less than a month....
US National Security Adviser (NSA) Jake Sullivan and member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Yang Jiechi held "candid, substantive, and productive" talks and agreed that maintaining unimpeded channels for communication is necessary and beneficial....
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said that kid-sized doses of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine appear to be safe and effective for children under 5-years-old. ...
US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair Bob Menendez has asked the Quad to help Sri Lanka to avoid "an economic implosion"....
At the ongoing inquiry into the January 2021 Capitol Hill riot, former US Attorney General William Barr said he thought that Donald Trump was "detached from reality" following the 2020 presidential election....
About 88,000 child Covid-19 cases were reported across the US in the week ending June 9, according to the latest report released by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Children's Hospital Association. ...