US President Joe Biden on Tuesday installed an energetic critic of Big Tech as a top federal regulator at a time when the industry is under intense pressure from Congress; regulators and state attorneys general. Moreover, The selection of Pakistan-origin legal scholar Lina Khan to head the; Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is seen as signaling […]
China has passed a new law to counter foreign sanctions, as it looks to build its defences against rising US and EU pressure over trade and human rights. Beijing has accused the United States of “suppressing” Chinese firms and issued veiled threats of retaliation after President Joe Biden last week expanded a blacklist of companies […]
US President Joe Biden will tell PM Boris Johnson in G7 summit not to let the row over post-Brexit trading in Northern Ireland affect the peace process. The two leaders are having their first face-to-face talks in Cornwall on the eve of the G7 summit. Mr Biden will stress the need to “stand behind” the […]
President Joe Biden has dub June a “month of action” to boost Covid-19 vaccination rates; in the US before his administration’s 4 July; deadline to inoculate 70 per cent of the country with at least one dose. To bring in more inoculations incentives are to be launched. Most recently, Washington state introduced “Joints for Jabs,” a program […]
Facebook Inc. has suspended former US President Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts for two years. Also, blocked indefinitely from both sites in January. After, he made posts on the US Capitol riots, but last month Facebook’s Oversight Board criticized the open-ended penalty. Facebook said Mr. Donald’s actions were “a severe violation of our rules”. […]
The national security advisers (NSAs) of Pakistan and the United States met in Geneva on Sunday, the first high-level face-to-face interaction since the Biden administration took office. According to NSA headquarters, “The national security advisers (NSAs) of Pakistan and the United States met in Geneva yesterday. Both parties had a productive discourse on a variety […]
The US military chief cautions the Israel-Palestinian struggle is destabilizing ‘beyond Gaza. He said that “in no one’s intrigued to fight.” Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Stamp Milley, talking to writers, whereas flying to Brussels for a NATO assembly, encouraged both sides within the strife to de-escalate, resounding comments from President Joe Biden, […]
WASHINGTON: The US space probe Osiris-Rex on Monday left the orbit of the asteroid Bennu; from which it collected dust samples last year, to begin its long journey back to Earth. The probe still has a vast distance to cover before it lands in the Utah desert on September 24, 2023. Osiris-Rex is “now moving […]
China is the world leader in greenhouse gas emissions that affect climate change, and it does not even come near. China’s 2019 greenhouse gas emissions surpassed those of all other developed nations combined. According to a study published last week by the Rhodium Group, China’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2019 were higher than those of […]
According to the Pentagon, a US naval ship fires warning shots after 13 warships from the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) of Iran approached it and other American Navy vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. After a relative lull in such encounters over the last year, a US naval ship fires warning shots […]
