Antony Blinken to visit Beijing on February 5
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will hold talks in Beijing on February 5-6, a US official said Tuesday, giving dates for a long-awaited trip aimed at keeping high tensions…
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US Medical Centre names Dora Akunyili’s daughter Chief Medical Officer
Jersey City Medical Centre, an RWJBarnabas Health facility, has announced the appointment of Ijeoma Akunyili, as its new Chief Medical Officer. Ijeoma is the daughter of the late former Director-General…
US Aviation regulator probe system outage after huge disruption
Aviation authorities were racing Wednesday to figure out what caused the outage of a crucial alert system that forced the temporary halt on all US domestic takeoffs, triggering thousands of…
World food prices hit record high in 2022 – UN
World food prices fell for a ninth month in a row in December but hit their highest level on record for the full year in 2022, UN data showed Friday.…
Former astronaut Cunningham, member of first crewed Apollo flight, dies
Former U.S. astronaut Walter Cunningham, who flew to space aboard Apollo 7 in 1968 on the inaugural crewed Apollo mission that paved the way for the first human moon landing…
Deadlocked US House fails to pick Speaker in first ballot
The new US Congress was thrown into chaos on its very first day Tuesday as rebel right-wing Republicans moved to block party favorite Kevin McCarthy from becoming speaker of the…
US says Covid tests for China travelers based ‘on science’
The United States said Tuesday that the requirement of Covid tests for travelers from China was based on science and due to Beijing’s lack of transparency on surging cases. China…
Police arrest criminology graduate Kohberger over Idaho student murders
US police investigating the frenzied stabbing of four students at a small Idaho university said Friday they had arrested a man on the other side of the country. The brutal…
Pioneering US television journalist Barbara Walters dead at 93
Barbara Walters, one of the most visible women on US television as the first female anchor on an American network evening news broadcast and one of TV’s most prominent interviewers,…
The Ukraine war and nine global events that shaped 2022
From the Russian invasion of Ukraine to the overturning of abortion laws in the United States, here is a roundup of the biggest events to mark 2022. War in Ukraine…