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Facebook tracking violent rhetoric ahead of US presidential inauguration

Facebook tracking violent rhetoric ahead of US presidential inauguration

-- 2021-01-14 11:49:10

Facebook Inc has seen an increase in signals indicating potential future acts of violence associated with efforts to contest the result of the US presidential election since the Capitol siege last wee...

Mexico seeks to ensure US vaccines for illegal migrants

Mexico seeks to ensure US vaccines for illegal migrants

REUTERS 2021-01-14 11:48:08

Mexico will invoke labour provisions in the new North American trade pact in a bid to ensure that illegal migrants in the United States receive coronavirus vaccines, the country’s top diplomat s...

Brazil's Bolsonaro sabotaged anti-Covid-19 efforts: HRW

Brazil's Bolsonaro sabotaged anti-Covid-19 efforts: HRW

-- 2021-01-14 11:44:26

Brazil’s right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro has tried to sabotage efforts to slow the spread of coronavirus (Covid-19) in his country and pursued policies that undermine the rights of Brazilian...

US House impeaches Trump again

US House impeaches Trump again

Reuters 2021-01-14 08:42:03

Donald Trump on Wednesday became the first president in US history to be impeached twice, as 10 of his fellow Republicans joined Democrats in the House of Representatives to charge him with inciting a...

US House begins debate on impeaching Trump

US House begins debate on impeaching Trump

Reuters 2021-01-13 22:33:48

A week after President Donald Trump's supporters stormed the US Capitol, the House of Representatives began debate on Wednesday as lawmakers considered impeaching him for his role in an assault on Ame...

Pompeo says Iran new home base for Al Qaeda, Tehran denies

Pompeo says Iran new home base for Al Qaeda, Tehran denies

-- 2021-01-13 19:40:07

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday, without providing hard evidence, that al Qaeda had established a new home base in Iran. The US top diplomat told at a news conference at the Nationa...

US executes first woman in nearly seven decades

US executes first woman in nearly seven decades

-- 2021-01-13 19:11:13

The US government executed convicted murderer Lisa Montgomery, the only woman on federal death row, on Wednesday, after the Supreme Court of the country cleared the last hurdle by overturning a stay....

YouTube suspends Trump’s channel for seven days

YouTube suspends Trump’s channel for seven days

-- 2021-01-13 14:02:09

Alphabet Inc’s YouTube said on Tuesday it has suspended Donald Trump’s channel as it violated policies for inciting violence after last week’s assault on the US Capitol by the presid...

Mike Pence opposes removing Trump from office with 25th Amendment

Mike Pence opposes removing Trump from office with 25th Amendment

-- 2021-01-13 12:44:53

Vice President Mike Pence told House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday that he is opposed to invoking the 25th Amendment to remove President Donald Trump from office after Trump&rsquo...

Impeachment moves causing tremendous anger, Trump says

Impeachment moves causing tremendous anger, Trump says

-- 2021-01-12 21:56:24

US President Donald Trump, who is under pressure to resign after his supporters carried out a deadly breach of the US Capitol last week, has said there was tremendous anger about moves to impeach him...

Twitter suspends 70,000 accounts after violence at US Capitol

Twitter suspends 70,000 accounts after violence at US Capitol

-- 2021-01-12 21:22:25

Twitter Inc said it has suspended more than 70,000 accounts since Friday that were primarily dedicated to sharing QAnon content after last week’s violence in Washington when supporters of Presid...

FBI warns of armed protests in US ahead of Biden's inauguration

FBI warns of armed protests in US ahead of Biden's inauguration

-- 2021-01-12 16:33:42

The FBI has warned of armed protests being planned for Washington and all 50 US state capitals in the run-up to President-elect Joe Biden's Jan 20 inauguration, a federal law enforcement source said o...

Washington imposes sanctions on Ukrainians over election interference

Washington imposes sanctions on Ukrainians over election interference

-- 2021-01-12 14:03:21

The United States on Monday imposed sanctions on several Ukrainian individuals and entities, accusing them of US election interference and associating with a pro-Russian Ukrainian lawmaker linked to e...

US Republicans face growing corporate backlash after Capitol attack

US Republicans face growing corporate backlash after Capitol attack

Reuters 2021-01-12 13:57:54

Republicans in the US Congress faced growing blowback on Monday (US standard time) from businesses that said they would cut off campaign contributions to those who voted last week to challenge Preside...

Nine million Americans received Covid vaccine, CDC says

Nine million Americans received Covid vaccine, CDC says

-- 2021-01-12 11:56:30

Nearly 9 million Americans had been given their first Covid-19 vaccination dose as of Monday, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said, as states scrambled to step up inoculations that h...

Career diplomat Burns to head Biden-era CIA

Career diplomat Burns to head Biden-era CIA

Reuters 2021-01-12 09:52:40

US President-elect Joe Biden on Monday tapped a former career diplomat in William Burns to lead the CIA as the Democrat raced to put a national security team in place days before his inauguration. Bu...

Democrats in US Congress begin second push to impeach Trump

Democrats in US Congress begin second push to impeach Trump

-- 2021-01-11 23:37:50

US Congressional Democrats began a push on Monday to force US President Donald Trump from office, introducing one article of impeachment accusing him of inciting insurrection over a violent attack on...

What to expect this week when Congress moves to throw Trump out of office

What to expect this week when Congress moves to throw Trump out of office

REUTERS 2021-01-11 14:33:33

Democrats in the US Congress will try to remove President Donald Trump from office this week, either by pressuring Vice President Mike Pence or in a historic second impeachment attempt, after Trump&rs...

US House Democrats lay out plan to remove Trump from office

US House Democrats lay out plan to remove Trump from office

Reuters 2021-01-11 10:35:37

US House of Representatives Democrats plan a vote today (Monday) to urge Vice President Mike Pence to take steps to remove President Donald Trump from office after his supporters’ deadly stormin...

Tensions rise in Central America, as soldiers aim to stop migrants

Tensions rise in Central America, as soldiers aim to stop migrants

-- 2021-01-11 10:22:02

Guatemalan and Honduran soldiers will be deployed to prevent new US-bound migrant caravans from advancing, military officials said, amid growing desperation among those seeking to cross and signs that...

Democrats push toward impeaching Trump for second time

Democrats push toward impeaching Trump for second time

REUTERS 2021-01-10 15:21:50

Democratic-led efforts to impeach US President Donald Trump for a historic second time gained momentum over the weekend, although it looked far from certain whether enough Republicans would back the m...

US to lift restrictions on contacts between American, Taiwanese officials

US to lift restrictions on contacts between American, Taiwanese officials

-- 2021-01-10 13:02:28

The US is lifting long-standing restrictions on contacts between American and Taiwanese officials, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says. The "self-imposed restrictions" were introduced decades ago to...

More US Capitol rioters in viral posts arrested

More US Capitol rioters in viral posts arrested

-- 2021-01-10 10:38:42

Federal agents arrested two more Capitol Hill rioters whose images had gone viral, of one carrying off the House speaker’s lectern and another who wore horns and a fur pelt, while a top Democrat...

Trump faces new drive for impeachment

Trump faces new drive for impeachment

-- 2021-01-09 17:03:41

An increasingly isolated and angry US President Donald Trump, cut off by Twitter in the waning days of his term, faces a renewed drive by Democrats to remove him from office after he incited his suppo...

Most Americans seek Trump removal after Capitol violence: Poll

Most Americans seek Trump removal after Capitol violence: Poll

REUTERS 2021-01-09 12:52:39

Fifty-seven per cent of Americans want Republican President Donald Trump to be immediately removed from office after he encouraged a protest this week that escalated into a deadly riot inside the US C...

Pelosi office laptop stolen during Capitol intrusion

Pelosi office laptop stolen during Capitol intrusion

-- 2021-01-09 11:10:41

A laptop was stolen from the office of US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi during the storming of the US Capitol on Wednesday, one of her aides said on Friday. Drew Hammill, an aide to D...

Twitter permanently suspends Trump's account

Twitter permanently suspends Trump's account

Reuters 2021-01-09 09:06:15

Twitter said on Friday that it has permanently suspended US President Donald Trump’s account due to the risk of further incitement of violence following the storming of the US Capitol on Wednesd...

Trump says he will not attend Biden's inauguration

Trump says he will not attend Biden's inauguration

-- 2021-01-08 22:02:02

US President Donald Trump has said will not attend the inauguration of his successor, Democratic President-elect Joe Biden, later this month. “To all of those who have asked, I will not be goin...

Police officer's death intensifies Capitol siege questions

Police officer's death intensifies Capitol siege questions

AP 2021-01-08 18:51:53

A police officer has died from injuries sustained as President Donald Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol, a violent siege that is forcing hard questions about the defeated president's remaining da...

Sinovac's COVID-19 vaccine 78pc effective in late-stage trial in Brazil

Sinovac's COVID-19 vaccine 78pc effective in late-stage trial in Brazil

Reuters 2021-01-08 16:50:57

A COVID-19 vaccine developed by China's Sinovac Biotech was 78 per cent effective in a late-stage Brazilian trial and entirely prevented severe cases, a source said on Thursday, boosting Chinese effor...