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Media investigations call into question US account of drone strike in Kabul

Media investigations call into question US account of drone strike in Kabul

-- 2021-09-13 20:30:23

A pair of media investigations are casting doubt about the official narrative of a US drone strike in Afghanistan's capital Kabul late last month, which the military alleged had targeted a vehicle car...

FBI releases declassified on September 11 attacks

FBI releases declassified on September 11 attacks

-- 2021-09-12 18:32:42

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States, has released the first document related to its investigation of Sept 11, 2001, attacks on th...

Shining Path founder Abimael Guzman dies at 86

Shining Path founder Abimael Guzman dies at 86

-- 2021-09-12 08:24:20

Professor-turned-radical rebel leader Abimael Guzman has died. The Peruvian government said the founder of the Shining Path guerilla group died in his prison cell Saturday morning. Awed by China&rsqu...

US marks 20-year milestone anniversary of September 11 attacks

US marks 20-year milestone anniversary of September 11 attacks

-- 2021-09-11 19:57:33

Twenty years after hijacked airliners smashed into New York City's World Trade Centre and the Pentagon outside Washington, Americans will honour the nearly 3,000 lives lost on Sept 11, 2001, and refle...

US could authorise Pfizer shot for kids in October

US could authorise Pfizer shot for kids in October

-- 2021-09-11 18:18:08

Top US health officials believe that Pfizer Inc's COVID-19 vaccine could be authorised for children aged 5-11 years old by the end of October, two sources familiar with the situation said on Friday....

Biden commemorates 9/11 anniversary by visiting all three attack sites

Biden commemorates 9/11 anniversary by visiting all three attack sites

-- 2021-09-11 13:26:18

President Joe Biden will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Sept 11 attacks on the United States on Saturday by visiting each of the sites where hijacked planes crashed in 2001, seeking to honour...

Haitian prosecutors seek to interview PM over president's assassination

Haitian prosecutors seek to interview PM over president's assassination

-- 2021-09-11 10:59:04

Haiti's chief public prosecutor invited Prime Minister Ariel Henry on Friday to meet with him next week to explain why he spoke with one of the main suspects in the assassinati...

US could authorise Pfizer Covid shot for kids age 5-11 by end of October

US could authorise Pfizer Covid shot for kids age 5-11 by end of October

-- 2021-09-11 10:20:12

Top US health officials believe that Pfizer Inc's COVID-19 vaccine could be authorised for children aged 5-11 years old by the end of October, two sources familiar with the situation said on Frid...

Tree planting efforts not replacing burned US forests

Tree planting efforts not replacing burned US forests

-- 2021-09-10 11:08:41

Experimental pine seedlings poke from the rocky New Mexico earth, the only living evergreens on a hillside torched by one of the US West’s drought-driven wildfires, Reuters reports. These clima...

Alaska watershed to be protected from mine project?

Alaska watershed to be protected from mine project?

-- 2021-09-10 08:44:03

The Biden administration said on Thursday it will re-launch a process that could permanently protect a vital Alaskan watershed from the development of the contentious Pebble Mine project https://www.r...

'Buy now, pay later' surges in US

'Buy now, pay later' surges in US

-- 2021-09-10 08:28:10

A third of U.S. consumers who used "buy now, pay later" services have fallen behind on one or more payments, and 72 per cent of those said their credit score declined, a new study published by persona...

US university, energy firm step towards carbon-free power generation

US university, energy firm step towards carbon-free power generation

-- 2021-09-09 10:50:08

Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Commonwealth Fusion Systems successfully tested the world's most powerful high-temperature superconducting magnet in a step toward building a fusion power pla...

Hunger rose for US minorities, children in 2020!

Hunger rose for US minorities, children in 2020!

-- 2021-09-09 09:55:18

The number of Hispanic and Black families without enough to eat climbed in 2020, the US government said on Wednesday, as the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered businesses and left millions of laid off Americ...

Pre-school, child care, tuition-free community college on American agenda

Pre-school, child care, tuition-free community college on American agenda

-- 2021-09-09 09:00:52

Publicly funded pre-school, child care subsidies and two years of tuition-free community college are on the agenda this week, when a US House of Representatives panel votes on parts of a sweeping soci...

Joseph Stiglitz says US Fed's Powell should go

Joseph Stiglitz says US Fed's Powell should go

-- 2021-09-08 19:43:27

For US President Joe Biden to be true to his agenda he should not renominate Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve chair, Nobel prize-winning economist and longtime Democratic adviser Joseph Stiglitz said...

Powerful quake shakes southwest Mexico; one dead

Powerful quake shakes southwest Mexico; one dead

-- 2021-09-08 11:25:54

A powerful earthquake struck southwestern Mexico near the beach resort of Acapulco on Tuesday night, killing at least one man who was crushed by a falling post, and causing rock falls and damaging bui...

Biden to outline plan to curb coronavirus Delta variant

Biden to outline plan to curb coronavirus Delta variant

-- 2021-09-08 11:25:41

President Joe Biden on Thursday will present a six-pronged strategy intended to fight the spread of the highly contagious coronavirus Delta variant and increase US COVID-19 vaccinations, the White Hou...

US judge rules Turkey can't recover ancient 'Stargazer' idol believed to have been looted

US judge rules Turkey can't recover ancient 'Stargazer' idol believed to have been looted

-- 2021-09-08 11:20:04

A US judge ruled on Tuesday that Turkey cannot recover a 6,000-year-old marble idol known as the "Guennol Stargazer" from Christie's and the hedge fund billionaire Michael Steinhardt. US District Jud...

Protesters throw stones at Justin Trudeau during campaign

Protesters throw stones at Justin Trudeau during campaign

-- 2021-09-07 20:43:24

Anti-vaccine, anti-mask and anti-lockdown protesters threw gravel at Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during a campaign stop ahead of an election slated for September 20. Justin Trudeau was ret...

9/11 case to take 20 more years? FBI's alleged mastermind KSM yet to face justice

9/11 case to take 20 more years? FBI's alleged mastermind KSM yet to face justice

-- 2021-09-06 11:05:12

The man accused of hatching the devastating plot to fly hijacked passenger planes into US landmarks 20 years ago is locked up awaiting trial, reports the BBC. But could he have been stopped years...

America's emotional task of teaching students about 9/11

America's emotional task of teaching students about 9/11

-- 2021-09-06 10:20:57

As the United States ends its 'forever war' in Afghanistan, a museum in New York is teaching students about the event that set it in motion before they were born: 9/11. The 9/11 Tribute Museum in Low...

Blinken to intensify Afghanistan diplomacy after messy pullout

Blinken to intensify Afghanistan diplomacy after messy pullout

-- 2021-09-06 08:58:15

A week after declaring America's "new chapter" of engagement with Afghanistan, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will aim to form a united front with allies this week on how to tackle the Taliban a...

Pfizer on track for US vaccine boosters, Moderna lagging: Fauci

Pfizer on track for US vaccine boosters, Moderna lagging: Fauci

-- 2021-09-06 08:37:06

Top US infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Sunday that officials were likely to soon get the regulatory go-ahead to administer Covid-19 vaccine booster shots made by Pfizer, although M...

US seen funding humanitarian aid for Afghanistan, but not its government

US seen funding humanitarian aid for Afghanistan, but not its government

-- 2021-09-05 16:16:29

The US Congress is likely to finance UN and other agencies providing humanitarian assistance for Afghanistan but there is virtually no chance it will directly fund a new Taliban-led government, cong...

Hurricane Ida death toll in US’s Louisiana reaches 12

Hurricane Ida death toll in US’s Louisiana reaches 12

-- 2021-09-05 13:04:58

Hurricane Ida's toll rose to 12 storm deaths in Louisiana on Saturday, still far outpaced by the dozens killed in flooded Northeast US states where President Biden is heading next week to assess damag...

Brazil halts use of 12m Sinovac vaccine doses

Brazil halts use of 12m Sinovac vaccine doses

-- 2021-09-05 11:45:42

Brazil's federal health regulator Anvisa on Saturday suspended the use of over 12 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine developed by China's Sinovac Biotech Ltd that were produced in an unauthorised p...

Myanmar envoy in talks with junta over access to Suu Kyi

Myanmar envoy in talks with junta over access to Suu Kyi

-- 2021-09-04 21:49:29

The Brunei diplomat appointed by a Southeast Asian regional bloc as its special envoy to Myanmar said on Saturday he is still negotiating with the military on the terms of a visit and has sought acces...

Rocky Mountain dry as water scarcity affects Canada's farm belt

Rocky Mountain dry as water scarcity affects Canada's farm belt

-- 2021-09-03 10:59:19

Where fly fisherman Shane Olson once paddled summer tourists around in a boat, he now guides them by foot – carefully navigating shallow waters one step at a time. “Every year, these rive...

Bangladeshi-origin Nusrat Chowdhury recommended to become US federal judge

Bangladeshi-origin Nusrat Chowdhury recommended to become US federal judge

-- 2021-09-02 20:22:43

US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday asked President Joe Biden to nominate three women experienced in civil rights litigation to serve as federal judges in New York, including one who...

Emergencies declared in NY, New Jersey, nine dead in record rains

Emergencies declared in NY, New Jersey, nine dead in record rains

-- 2021-09-02 17:08:40

The governors of New York and New Jersey declared a state of emergency late on Wednesday as record-breaking rains from tropical storm Ida led to flooding and hazardous conditions on the roads, with me...