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Russia produces first batch of Covid-19 vaccine for animals: Regulator

Russia has produced the world's first batch - 17,000 doses - of Covid-19 vaccines for animals, its agricultural regulator said on Friday. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3vz7ZHk

Record number of Chinese to travel over Labour Day break, but stick close to home

A record-breaking wave of Chinese tourists will hit the road for the Labour Day break, and with borders still shut many will be travelling domestically, to more remote locations and for longer, giving China's economy a powerful short-term boost. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2S55yhl

Explainer: What remains as US ends Afghan 'forever war'

Announcing a firm withdrawal deadline, President Joe Biden cut through the long debate, even within the US military, over whether the time was right. Starting Saturday, the last remaining 2,500 to 3,5000 American troops will begin leaving, to be fully out by Sept. 11 at the latest. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3u4Z6oI

Explainer: What remains as US ends Afghan 'forever war'

Announcing a firm withdrawal deadline, President Joe Biden cut through the long debate, even within the US military, over whether the time was right. Starting Saturday, the last remaining 2,500 to 3,5000 American troops will begin leaving, to be fully out by Sept. 11 at the latest. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US news live on Times of India https://ift.tt/3u4Z6oI

Growth in Burkina Faso gold mining fuels human trafficking

For months, human traffickers beat and drugged Blessing, hauling the 27-year-old from one gold mine encampment to the next, where each night she was forced to sleep with dozens of men for less than $2 a person. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/332JWVi

Sumo wrestler dies month after falling on head during bout

A Japanese sumo wrestler has died a month after falling on his head during a bout in a case that has raised questions about the sport's response to medical emergencies. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3vyfFKi

Census Bureau: 70% of voters cast ballots early or by mail

More than two-thirds of all US citizens of the voting age population participated in the 2020 presidential election, according to a new US Census Bureau report, and 69% of those cast ballots by mail or early in-person voting - methods that Republicans in some states are curtailing. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3e6w7eG

Florida GOP awaits governor's signature on new voting rules

Florida Republicans passed a series of sweeping voter restrictions Thursday targeting mailed ballots, drop boxes and other popular election methods, becoming the latest GOP-controlled state to tighten voting rules after massive turnout in 2020. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3gQUNtE

Disneyland opening highlights California's Covid turnaround

Four months ago, America's most populous state was struggling to combat a surge in coronavirus hospitalizations that packed patients into outdoor tents and killed hundreds of people each day. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3e3kpkR

'I'm still exhaling': Swing-state voters on Joe Biden's 100 days

On the sidelines of her son's soccer practice in upscale Elm Grove, Wisconsin, Laura Hahn said President Joe Biden is doing well 100 days into his presidency. But she attributed the opinion as much to relief as analysis. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3gPGTIb

Joe Biden's agenda: What can pass and what faces steep odds

President Joe Biden laid out a long list of policy priorities in his speech to Congress - and some are more politically plausible than others. The two parties are working together in some areas, including on changes to policing and confronting the rise of hate crimes against Asian Americans. But Republicans are likely to block other Democratic initiatives on immigration and voting rights. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3eC7RjG

Census Bureau: 70% of voters cast ballots early or by mail

More than two-thirds of all US citizens of the voting age population participated in the 2020 presidential election, according to a new US Census Bureau report, and 69% of those cast ballots by mail or early in-person voting - methods that Republicans in some states are curtailing. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/3e6w7eG

Florida GOP awaits governor's signature on new voting rules

Florida Republicans passed a series of sweeping voter restrictions Thursday targeting mailed ballots, drop boxes and other popular election methods, becoming the latest GOP-controlled state to tighten voting rules after massive turnout in 2020. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/3gQUNtE

Disneyland opening highlights California's Covid turnaround

Four months ago, America's most populous state was struggling to combat a surge in coronavirus hospitalizations that packed patients into outdoor tents and killed hundreds of people each day. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/3e3kpkR

'I'm still exhaling': Swing-state voters on Joe Biden's 100 days

On the sidelines of her son's soccer practice in upscale Elm Grove, Wisconsin, Laura Hahn said President Joe Biden is doing well 100 days into his presidency. But she attributed the opinion as much to relief as analysis. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/3gPGTIb

Joe Biden's agenda: What can pass and what faces steep odds

President Joe Biden laid out a long list of policy priorities in his speech to Congress - and some are more politically plausible than others. The two parties are working together in some areas, including on changes to policing and confronting the rise of hate crimes against Asian Americans. But Republicans are likely to block other Democratic initiatives on immigration and voting rights. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/3eC7RjG

Rudy Giuliani defiant, a day after FBI raid of home, office

Rudy Giuliani sought to discredit the federal investigation into his dealings in Ukraine on Thursday, a day after agents raided his home and office. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/3xCTxQw

Rudy Giuliani defiant, a day after FBI raid of home, office

Rudy Giuliani sought to discredit the federal investigation into his dealings in Ukraine on Thursday, a day after agents raided his home and office. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3xCTxQw

Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong pleads guilty over June 4 'illegal assembly'

Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong was among four people who pleaded guilty on Friday of participating in an illegal assembly on June 4 last year to commemorate the 1989 crackdown on protesters in and around Beijing's Tiananmen Square. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/331XK2o

Brazil tops 400,000 virus deaths amid fears of renewed surge

Brazil on Thursday became the second country to officially top 400,000 Covid-19 deaths, losing another 100,000 lives in just one month, as some health experts warn there may be gruesome days ahead when the Southern Hemisphere enters winter. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3xDca6O

Dozens killed in stampede at Israeli religious festival

Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews had thronged to the Galilee tomb of 2nd-century sage Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai for annual Lag B'Omer commemorations that include all-night prayer, mystical songs and dance. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3aSmP3V

'Dozens of dead' in Israel pilgrimage accident: Rescue services

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Covid: Kathmandu, other cities in Nepal under 15-day prohibitory order

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It's time to bring troops home from Afghanistan: Joe Biden

After 20 years of American valour and sacrifice in Afghanistan, it's time to bring troops home, US President Joe Biden has said, assuring fellow citizens that his administration will maintain capabilities to suppress future threats to the homeland. Biden made this assurance to war-weary Americans in his maiden address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3u8JVLu

It's time to bring troops home from Afghanistan: Joe Biden

After 20 years of American valour and sacrifice in Afghanistan, it's time to bring troops home, US President Joe Biden has said, assuring fellow citizens that his administration will maintain capabilities to suppress future threats to the homeland. Biden made this assurance to war-weary Americans in his maiden address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/3u8JVLu

4 killed, 1 wounded, in Germany care clinic attack

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In historic first, two powerful women flank US president

Kamala Harris, the first woman and the first Black and Asian person to serve as vice president, sat to Biden's right. Nancy Pelosi, who became the first woman speaker of the House of Representatives in 2007, sat to his left. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/32YcGhQ

'White supremacy is terrorism': President Joe Biden

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'It's about time:' In historic first, two powerful women flank US president

Kamala Harris, the first woman and the first Black and Asian person to serve as vice president, sat to Biden's right. Nancy Pelosi, who became the first woman speaker of the House of Representatives in 2007, sat to his left. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/32YcGhQ

'White supremacy is terrorism': President Joe Biden

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Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi make history at US President Joe Biden's first address to Congress

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Harris, Pelosi make history at Biden's first address to Congress

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US will maintain strong military presence in Indo-Pacific to prevent conflict: Biden

President Joe Biden said that he has told his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping that the US will maintain a strong military presence in the Indo-Pacific "not to start conflict, but to prevent one," as Beijing made efforts to expand influence in the strategically vital region. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/32VMHrt

Biden warns US Congress: China 'closing in fast'

President Joe Biden took aim at China in his first speech to Congress on Wednesday, pledging to maintain a strong US military presence in the Indo-Pacific and promising to boost technological development and trade. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/32V3FWV

US committed to use every resource at its disposal to help India: Defence secretary Austin

The department of defence on Wednesday airlifted the first shipment of American aid to India from a military base in California. The flight is scheduled to land in India on Thursday. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/3gNvDfa

Biden warns US Congress: China 'closing in fast'

President Joe Biden took aim at China in his first speech to Congress on Wednesday, pledging to maintain a strong US military presence in the Indo-Pacific and promising to boost technological development and trade. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/32V3FWV

Joe Biden's first address to joint session of Congress: Full text

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US determined to help people of India: NSA Sullivan

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Joe Biden: America is 'on the move again'

President Joe Biden declared on Wednesday that America is "on the move again" at the start of a rousing speech to Congress, calling for trillions of dollars to rebuild the post-Covid US middle class and its "forgotten" workers. Lauding the success of mass vaccination against Covid-19, Biden told Congress and the nation on primetime television that "in America, we always get up." from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/32YukC8

Leave India as soon as it’s safe, US advises citizens

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BioNTech co-founder 'confident' vaccine works against Indian variant

BioNTech co-founder Ugur Sahin on Wednesday voiced confidence that the vaccine that his company jointly developed with Pfizer works against the Indian variant of the coronavirus. "We are still testing the Indian variant, but the Indian variant has mutations that we have already tested for and which our vaccine works against, so I am confident," said Sahin. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2R6Ynok

Texas man dies after attack by aggressive swarm of bees

A Texas man died after going into cardiac arrest when he was attacked by an aggressive swarm of bees outside his home, authorities said. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3eydAaa

Guests flock to Dutch cafe terraces as lockdown eases

The Netherlands on Wednesday became the latest European country to begin cautiously relaxing its lockdown even as infection rates and intensive care occupancy remain stubbornly high. The Dutch follow Italy, Greece, France and other European nations in moving to reopen society and edge away from economically crippling lockdowns in the coming weeks. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3sZLxFQ

Texas man dies after attack by aggressive swarm of bees

A Texas man died after going into cardiac arrest when he was attacked by an aggressive swarm of bees outside his home, authorities said. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/3eydAaa

French President Emmanuel Macron to update France on Covid situation this Friday

French President Emmanuel Macron will deliver an update on Friday on how the Covid-19 restrictions will progressively be relaxed in the country, Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Wednesday. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3nquHig

Russian FM Sergey Lavrov: US-Russia ties worse than during Cold War

Russia's top diplomat said Wednesday that relations with the United States are now even worse than during the Cold War times because of a lack of mutual respect. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3ntskep

BioNTech chief: Europe will reach herd immunity by August

Europe can achieve herd immunity against the coronavirus within the next four months, the head of German pharmaceutical company BioNTech, which developed the first widely approved Covid-19 vaccine with US partner Pfizer, said Wednesday. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/32V2qqz

Northern Ireland leader faces party revolt over Brexit fallout

The leader of Northern Ireland was fighting Wednesday to keep her job as members of her party tried to oust her over her handling of the fallout from Brexit and other issues. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2RZDqMz

UK regulator sees no heart inflammation concerns from Pfizer Covid shot

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H-1B visa extensions will be smoother as Trump-era memo is revoked

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