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Washington, Aug 25: US and Chinese trade envoys discussed strengthening coordination of their government's economic policies during a phone meeting Tuesday, the Ministry of Commerce announced. The announcement gave no details of the meeting held as part of the Phase 1 truce aimed at ending a tariff war between the two biggest global economies that has disrupted worldwide trade. President Xi

Washington, Aug 25: Video-sharing social networking company TikTok filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over an executive order banning any US transactions with its parent company ByteDance. In the 39-page indictment, US President Donald Trump, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross and US Department of Commerce were listed as defendants, Xinhua news agency reported. According to the

Washington, Aug 25: Making a passionate plea to re-elect Republican Donald Trump, top Indian-American politician Nikki Haley said that the US President has a "record of strength and success", while his Democratic rival Joe Biden has a "record of weakness and failure." Haley, who was the former US Ambassador to the United Nations, on the first day of the Republican National Convention (RNC) warned

Christchurch, Aug 24: The Australian white supremacist who murdered 51 Muslims in last year's New Zealand mosques shooting showed no emotion as his sentencing hearing opened Monday with horrific details of an atrocity prosecutors said was meticulously planned to inflict maximum casualties. Brenton Tarrant wanted "to have shot more people than he did", the court was told at the start of the four

Washington, Aug 23: Aiming to woo the influential Indian-American voters numbering over 2 million, the Trump campaign has released its first video commercial that has short clips from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's speeches and US President Donald Trump's historic address in Ahmedabad. Modi and Trump addressed a huge crowd in Ahmedabad during the US president's visit to India in February this year

Khartoum, Aug 22: A cargo plane carrying cash and goods crashed in South Sudan on Saturday, killing some 17 people, media cited eyewitnesses as saying. The South West Aviation's plane crashed shortly after taking off from an airport near the capital of Juba at around 9 a.m. (6:00 GMT), the Chinese news agency Xinhua reported. Photos on social media showed that the jet had fallen apart and caught

Geneva, Aug 22: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), said that the ongoing global coronavirus pandemic could be over within two years. Addressing a virtual press briefing from Geneva on Friday, the WHO chief said that the Spanish flu of 1918 had also taken two years to overcome, but current advances in technology could enable the world to halt

London, Aug 22: A pair of gold-plated glasses worn by Indian independence hero Mahatma Gandhi has sold in Britain for £2,60,000 (about 2,88,000 euros, $3,40,000), the auction house said. "We found them just four weeks ago in our letterbox, left there by a gentleman whose uncle had been given them by Gandhi himself," East Bristol Auctions wrote on Instagram after the sale late Friday. "An

Geneva, Aug 21: The number of COVID-19 cases globally has grown by more than 263,000 in the past 24 hours, while over 6,500 patients have died in the same period of time, the World Health Organisation's (WHO) data revealed on late Thursday. The WHO said that the total number of new cases in the world amounted to 263,601, while the increment in fatalities to 6,554. Overall, the number of COVID-19

London, Aug 18: An Indian-origin physician is among 19 winners of the UK's Royal Academy of Engineering President's Special Awards for Pandemic Service for exceptional engineering achievements in tackling COVID-19 throughout the UK. Ravi Solanki, a physician working on neurodegenerative diseases, along with Raymond Siems, an engineer working in machine learning, were awarded for their volunteer