A woman from the US state of Virginia passed away shortly after she received the Pfizer vaccine against Covid-19, but a link to blame the vaccine for her death has not been found, officials said. Drene Keyes, 58, fell ill after she received the vaccine at a clinic in the town of Warsaw, NBC News reported on Friday, citing Warsaw...
The US has "expressed its strong support" for Nigeria's former Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to be the next Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) announced. "Okonjo-Iweala brings a wealth of knowledge in economics and international...
The US government will deploy more than 1,000 troops across the country in an effort to boost the vaccination drive against the novel coronavirus. Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin has approved a request for assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for the troops' deployment, Xinhua...
US employers added just 49,000 jobs in January, after slashing some 227,000 jobs the previous month, the Labour Department reported. ...
An influential coronavirus model has predicted there the US will register more than 631,000 deaths due to the novel coronavirus by June 1....
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Zalmay Khalilzad, Washington's special envoy for Afghanistan reconciliation, during which they "discussed the way forward" for long-lasting peace in the war-torn country....
Former US President Donald Trump has announced to resign from the Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) after the leading labour union in the entertainment industry threatened to disqualify his membership....
The total number of global coronavirus cases has topped 104.8 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.28 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Friday morning, the University's Center for Systems...
Former US President Donald Trump will not testify under oath voluntarily for the Senate impeachment trial set to start next week, Trump's legal team has said, calling the House Democrats' request for Trump testifying a "stunt". "We are in receipt of your latest public relations stunt," Trump's attorneys ...
The regulators are coming for 'Roaring Kitty'. Keith Gill, the man in a red bandana whose enthusiasm for video game retailer GameStop drove millions of his devotees to buy up the stock and take it "to the moon", is under investigation in his own backyard....
