
The US said it would cut off aid to several authorities in El Salvador after the country's new government dismissed constitutional judges. Funding will no longer go to El Salvador's Parliament, the constitutional chamber of its Supreme Court, the Attorney General's office, the police and the ...

US President Joe Biden and his visiting South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in have voiced willingness to engage with Pyongyang, while reaffirming the goal to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula. Moon is the second foreign leader, after Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga ...

The US and South Korea are "deeply concerned" about North Korea's nuclear weapons programme and want to focus on a diplomatic solution, US President Joe Biden has said, while announcing the appointment of US diplomat Sung Kim as a North Korea envoy. ...

The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 165.8 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 3.43 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University....

The Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington D.C. has reopened at 20 per cent of its full capacity....

Former US President Donald Trump has been sued by a Chinese-American civil rights group for calling Covid-19 the "China virus"....

In a counterproposal to Senate Republicans on Friday, the White House lowered the overall price tag of President Joe Biden's $2.3-trillion infrastructure plan to $1.7 trillion....

The 7-day average of new Covid-19 infections was about 29,100 as of Thursday, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University, marking the first time the average was below 30,000 since June 22, 2020....

People are bidding as high as $2.8 million for a 10-minute experience on Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's aerospace company Blue Origin's space tourism mission New Shepard, the media reporte...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that restrictions along the country's border with the US against non-essential travel has been extended another month until June 21 to stem the spread of Covid-19....