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WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump signed into law a bill calling for the establishment of an American consulate in Tibet and the building of an international coalition to ensure that the next Dalai Lama is appointed solely by the Tibetan Buddhist community without interference from China. The Tibetan Policy and …

LONDON: Prime Minister Boris Johnson would chair a crisis meeting on Monday, as a growing number of countries blocked flights from Britain over a highly infectious new strain of coronavirus that the UK said was “out of control”. The World Health Organization also called for stronger containment measures across Europe, …

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump on Saturday played down a massive cyber attack on US government agencies, declaring it “under control” and undermining his own administration’s assessment that Russia was to blame. “I have been fully informed and everything is well under control,” Trump tweeted in his first public …

BRASILIA: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has launched an attack on coronavirus vaccines, even suggesting that the one developed by Pfizer-BioNTech could turn people into crocodiles or bearded women. The far-right leader has been skeptical of the coronavirus since it first appeared late last year, calling it “a bit of the …

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump said Friday that the United States has authorized a second coronavirus vaccine, throwing the gun on regulators who have yet to give it a formal green light. “The Moderna vaccine was overwhelmingly approved. Distribution will begin immediately,” he wrote on Twitter. This follows a …

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump said Friday that the United States has authorized a second coronavirus vaccine, throwing the gun on regulators who have yet to give it a formal green light. “The Moderna vaccine was overwhelmingly approved. Distribution will begin immediately,” he wrote on Twitter. This follows a …

LONDON: Oxford University’s Covid-19 candidate vaccine has a better immune response when using a two-full-dose regimen rather than a full dose followed by a half-dose booster, the university said Thursday, citing data from the first trials. The developers of the candidate vaccine, which has been licensed to the pharmaceutical company …

The first days of Pfizer Inc’s Covid-19 vaccine launch have seen unexpected issues including some vaccines stored in excessively cold temperatures and Pfizer reporting potential challenges in its vaccine production, US officials said. At least two trays of Covid-19 vaccine doses delivered in California needed to be replaced after storage …

NEW DELHI: With Americans, British and Canadians rolling up their sleeves for coronavirus vaccines, the route out of the pandemic now seems clear to many in the West, even if implementation will take many months. But for the poorest countries, the road will be much longer and bumpier. The ambitious …

WASHINGTON: A challenging Donald trump He shows no signs of giving up and has once again reiterated his unsubstantiated allegations of widespread electoral fraud, claiming at his first post-election rally in Georgia that he won a “rigged” US presidential election that he lost. Trump alleged on Saturday that last month’s …