US House of Representatives on Thursday passed a bill to allot eight thousand more Special Immigration Visas (SIVs) to interpreters, contractors, and other vulnerable Afghans who have worked with the US army in the war-torn country....
MedStar Foundation donated over $1.4 million worth of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and two CPAP machines to Sewa International on Friday, July 9 in an event held at the Foundation’s warehouse in Hyattsville, Maryland. The PPE received by Sewa include N-95 equivalent masks, face shields, gloves, goggles, and full ...
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday indicted nine persons associated with the Chinese covert operation 'Fox hunt', who use to forcibly repatriate Beijing's dissidents....
The benefits of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine far outweigh its potential risks amid an ongoing review of reports of a rare neurological disorder, according to an advisory panel to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday. ...
The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 192.5 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 4.12 million and vaccinations soared to over 3.74 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University...
The US military in the past few days conducted airstrikes in Afghanistan to support the war-torn country's security forces, the Pentagon said....
The executive board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a set of policy reforms to the concessional lending facilities to better support the recovery of low-income countries (LICs) from the Covid-19 pandemic....
Deaths from all causes combined increased dramatically since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic for certain demographic groups in the US, particularly for Black and Hispanic communities, even when accounting for socioeconomic factors, according to a new study....
The Attorney General of Mississippi has urged the US Supreme Court to overrule the landmark Roe v. Wade decision when reviewing the state's ban on virtually all abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. ...
Initial unemployment claims in the US increased to 419,000 last week, indicating a bumpy recovery amid the recent Covid-19 resurgence, the Labour Department reported. ...