Joe Biden served 14 years as the democrat on the senate judiciary committee. He has spent months building an extensive pipeline of judicial nominees to fill the court vacancies throughout the country. Attempting to swiftly remake portions of the judiciary and undo one of his predecessor’s most significant achievements. Biden has taken part in hundreds […]
Pfizer Inc has withdrawn an application for emergency-use authorization of its COVID-19 vaccine in India that it has developed with Germany’s BioNTech, the company told the local news agency on Friday. The United States company; which was the first drugmaker to apply for emergency use authorization of its COVID-19 vaccine in India; had a meeting […]
Kuwait will impose a new round of swift restrictions from Sunday, including a two-week entry ban on non-citizens, as part of its latest attempt to curb the spread of the Covid. The decision was announced on Wednesday following an extraordinary cabinet meeting as the country is witnessing an uptick in the number of COVID-19 infections […]
Myanmar police have charged Aung San Suu Kyi with possession of illegally-imported walkie-talkies, which could result in a two-year prison sentence. A document from a police station in the capital said military officers who searched Aung San Suu Kyi’s residence had found handheld radios that were imported illegally and used without permission by her bodyguards. […]
Pop sensation Rihanna supports the farmers, who are protesting in India, on Tuesday using her Twitter handle followed by millions. She took to Twitter and questioned the internet ban imposed in Haryana and parts of Delhi by the BJP government during the ongoing Farmer’s protest in the outskirts of Dehli against the center’s agricultural law. […]
Iran is ready for a new nuclear agreement with the US — but the clock is ticking, according to Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif. In an exclusive interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Monday, Zarif said the Biden administration has a “limited window of opportunity” to re-enter the 2015 nuclear agreement. “The time for the […]
Facebook suspends Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s chatbot linked account and deleted his post for violating the company’s privacy policy. Visitors to the Prime Minister’s Facebook page, who clicked on a link about the coronavirus, received an automatic message, purporting to come from Netanyahu. “If you have friends or family members aged 60 or over who have […]
Saudi Arabia on Tuesday banned expatriates from traveling to the Kingdom from 20 countries to curb the spread of the coronavirus. Exceptions to the ban, which begins at 9 p.m. on Wednesday, are diplomats, and medical staff, and their families. Travel will be banned from the UAE, Egypt, Lebanon, and Turkey, as well as the […]
Two FBI agents were killed and three others were wounded while serving a warrant early Tuesday in Florida, officials said. The agents, who were not immediately identified, were shot at a residential complex in Sunrise at about 6 a.m. while executing a court-ordered search warrant in a case involving violent crimes against children, FBI officials […]
The United Arab Emirates announced that Emirati nationality will now be officially attainable for foreigners, in a major first for the Gulf state. The move is a significant change in direction for a country whose economy relies heavily on expatriates, For whom residency is typically contingent on their employment visas. The UAE passport will be […]
