The United States on Friday (local time) dispatched the third set of its several emergency Covid-19 relief shipments to India. Arriving in New Delhi with Covid-19 relief supplies from the Dulles International Airport in the national capital region, the carrier is en route to the Indira Gandhi International Airport.The US carrier has onboard oxygen cylinders, test kits and other supplies and is expected to land in New Delhi after a brief haul in Munich according to USAID.On Friday just before the flight’s departure the White House’s National Security Council coordinator for the Indo-Pacific, Kurt Campbell, Indian Ambassador to the United…
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Myanmar’s deposed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi completed a third month under military-ordered house arrest Saturday — a period marked by scatter-gun criminal charges and apparent isolation from the chaos engulfing the country.The nation has been plunged into violence since the military deposed the Nobel laureate in a February 1 coup, ending Myanmar’s brief tryst with democracy.The resumption of junta rule sparked a wave of protests and a brutal crackdown on the pro-democracy movement, in which security forces have killed more than 750 people, according to a local monitoring group.Charged on six counts including sedition and under Myanmar’s official…
US investigators are seeking to review Rudy Giuliani’s phones and computers for communications with more than a dozen people, including a high-ranking prosecutor in Ukraine, according to a warrant executed at his apartment this week.They also are searching for communications with any US government official or employee relating to Marie Yovanovitch, the US ambassador to Ukraine who was ousted by the Trump administration in 2019, the warrant says.Agents seized more than 10 cell phones and computers from Giuliani’s Manhattan apartment and office in raids on Wednesday, according to his lawyer, Bob Costello, who read the search warrant to a Reuters…
The earthquake struck close to the coast of Miyagi Prefecture north of Tokyo and not far from the destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Reuters | , Tokyo PUBLISHED ON MAY 01, 2021 07:41 AM IST Northern Japan was jolted by an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.6, the country’s weather agency said on Saturday, warning about the possibility of landslides in the hilly northeast. No tsunami alert was issued.The earthquake struck close to the coast of Miyagi Prefecture north of Tokyo and not far from the destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, where the owner, Tokyo Electric Power was making…
Republican lawmakers on Friday criticised President Joe Biden for imposing restrictions on travel from India in view of the sudden surge in COVID-19 cases in the country.“Restricting travel to our ally India while leaving our border open to Mexico is not rational,” Congressman Tim Burchett said in a tweet, soon after the White House announced Biden’s decision.“The policy will be implemented in light of extraordinarily high COVID-19 caseloads and multiple variants circulating in India. The policy will take effect on Tuesday, May 4,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki had said on Friday.Another Republican lawmaker Jodey Arrington also criticised Biden…
The number of targets of secretive surveillance in national security investigations fell sharply last year in large part because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a government report released Friday.The drop in eavesdropping targets under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which among other things empowers the FBI to monitor the communications inside the United States of people suspected of being agents of a foreign power, followed a decline the year before after several years of substantially larger numbers.US officials say the statistics are known to fluctuate from year to year because of various factors, but that in 2020, the COVID-19…
The police chief of West Virginia’s capital city said two officers shot and wounded a Black man wielding a knife Friday afternoon, a confrontation captured on police body camera video that was released at a news conference.Charleston Police Chief James ‘Tyke’ Hunt said Denaul Dickerson, 33, was shot about five times and taken to a hospital where he was in stable condition. Detectives and prosecutors in Kanawha County, whose seat is Charleston, will review the case, the police chief said in briefing reporters.Hunt did not announce any action taken against the officers involved or disclose their races.Police body camera footage…
RJ Pierce, Tech Times 30 April 2021, 09:04 pm The folks at Respawn Entertainment are likely doing happy somersaults right now with the way one of their biggest shooters in recent years is getting increased attention. Slashgear reports that Titanfall 2 is going to be free-to-play on Steam until May 3rd, 10 AM PT. Respawn themselves tweeted about this on their official page, and it seemed like a lot of fans to love it. As of this writing, the announcement tweet has had over 15,000 likes and 5,000 retweets. (Photo : Getty Images)PARIS, FRANCE – OCTOBER 26: People queue to…
Australian residents and citizens who have been in India within 14 days of the date they plan to return home will be banned from entering Australia as of Monday and those who disobey will face fines and jail, government officials said.The emergency determination, made late on Friday, is part of strict measures to stop travellers to Australia from the world’s second most populous nation as it contends with a surge in Covid-19 cases and deaths.The restrictions come into effect from May 3 and breaching the ban risks civil penalties and up to five years imprisonment, Health Minister Greg Hunt said…
Brazilian pharmaceutical associations on Friday called for lawmakers to reject a bill that seeks to suspend Covid-19 vaccine patents, saying it could spark international retaliation and reduce medical supplies in Latin America’s biggest country.Brazil’s Senate passed the proposal on Thursday night, sending it to the lower house for consideration.The bill’s backers say the emergency measure is needed due to a shortage of shots and a grave outbreak in Brazil, where over 400,000 people have died from the virus.The government of President Jair Bolsonaro has publicly opposed calls to suspend patent protections, arguing they could endanger talks with vaccine producers.In a…