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Meet the Bidens: America’s new ‘first family’
Joe Biden arrives with wife Jill Biden to speak to supporters in Wilmington, Delaware on Nov 4. (AP pic)WASHINGTON: President-elect Joe Biden and his wife Jill will become the new White House residents when he takes office on Wednesday. Biden has made his family a major focus throughout his career, and his 2020 presidential campaign thrust them...
Biden eyes ex-Obama staff, veterans for State posts
Biden wants to return to the accord under which Iran drastically slashed its nuclear program in exchange for promises of sanctions relief. (AP pic)WASHINGTON: The lead US negotiator of the Iran nuclear accord and a battle-tested hawk on Russia were named Saturday to top posts in President-elect Joe Biden’s State Department, signaling a...
Prosecute Congress members who helped pro-Trump siege, calls Pelosi
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced a security review of the Capitol attack. (AP pic)WASHINGTON: Any members of the US Congress who helped a crowd of President Donald Trump’s supporters storm the Capitol should face criminal prosecution, House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Friday. The unprecedented Jan 6 attack on the...
Now that Trump is impeached again, what’s next?
Trump has expressed interest in potentially running for president again in 2024. (AP pic)WASHINGTON: The US House of Representatives impeached President Donald Trump on Wednesday for a second time – just days before he is scheduled to leave office – raising questions about what happens next. The House voted 232-197 to impeach the president, with...
Ukraine's cooperation with Sinovac allows starting mass COVID-19 vaccination in first half of 2021
KIEV, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) — The cooperation with Chinese biopharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech will help Ukraine start vaccination in the first half of 2021 with safe vaccines, the development director of Lekhim Group Mikhail Rensky said in an exclusive interview with Xinhua on Wednesday. Read full story …read more Source:: The...
WHO warns second year of pandemic ‘could even be tougher’
Medical workers transfer a Covid-19 patient to a hospital in Lviv, Western Ukraine on Jan 4. (AP pic)GENEVA: The second year of the Covid-19 pandemic may be tougher than the first given how the new coronavirus is spreading, especially in the northern hemisphere as more infectious variants circulate, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on...
Republicans join Democrats to press forward impeachment vote
WASHINGTON, Jan 12: With at least five Republicans joining their push to impeach President Donald Trump over the storming of the U.S. Capitol, Democrats in the House of Representatives stood poised for a history-making vote to try to remove the president from office.With eight days remaining in Trump’s term, the House will vote on Wednesday...
Democrats step up Trump impeachment drive after Capitol riot
A police munition explodes as Trump supporters gather in front of the US Capitol last week. (Reuters pic)WASHINGTON: Democrats will give President Donald Trump one last chance on Tuesday to leave office days before his term expires or face an unprecedented second impeachment over his supporters’ deadly Jan 6 assault on the US Capitol. The...
Pelosi says she’s ready to start impeaching Trump once again
Pelosi has said that Trump ‘represents an imminent threat’ to the Constitution and ‘our Democracy’. (AP pic)WASHINGTON: US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday she would push ahead with efforts to remove President Donald Trump from office during the final days of his administration after his supporters’ violent attack on the...
Ukraine's budget deficit amounts to 7.6 bln USD in 2020
KIEV, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) — Ukraine’s Ministry of Finance announced that the state budget deficit in 2020 amounted to 215.5 billion hryvnia (about 7.6 billion U.S. dollars) with maximum deficit approved by the budget law to be 274.5 billion hryvnia (about 9.7 billion U.S. dollars), Ukrinform news agency reported on Tuesday. Read full...
