AMERICA

UK bans arrivals from South America over Brazil virus variant

Portugal was also added to the banned list because of close travel links with Brazil, he said. Workers transporting essential good from Por...

View: America’s Tibet law should spur India to reclaim lost leverage on China

Today, China is claiming Indian areas on the basis not of any Han Chinese connection to them but alleged Tibetan ecclesial or tutelary link...

Mahindra North America right sizes operation, Tech Centre to focus on new generation EV platform development

Having ceded ground to homegrown rival Tata Motors, Mahindra & Mahindra has started developing a grounds up electric vehicle architecture a...

Automaker Mahindra cuts over half of North America workforce: Sources

The sources did not give a figure for the number of jobs lost at the business, which had over 500 employees in early 2020, according to its...

Biden faces challenge in guiding America past Trump era

Biden essentially framed his presidential campaign as a response to Trump, pledging to "restore the soul" of America. He has said he decide...

President Trump's possible second impeachment is a test of America's accountability

No president has ever been impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors twice. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was weighing bringing a new art...

We'll show 'what America is made of': Nancy Pelosi

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says Congress' certifying of Biden's win will show the world it won't back down. Pelosi made her comments as the...

'Only in America': Raphael Warnock's rise from poverty to US senator

He grew up in Savannah in the Kayton Homes public housing project, the second youngest of 12 children. His mother as a teenager had worked ...

As Georgia heads to Senate polls, America holds its breath

But Biden pulled out a shock victory here in November, one of several states that he flipped to win the White House, and the races for Sena...

America's President-elect Joe Biden receives coronavirus vaccine jab publicly

Biden became the latest in a string of U.S. political leaders who have received the vaccine. Vice President Mike Pence received it publicly...

The vaccines are coming. A divided and distrustful America awaits

The first Americans will most likely receive shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in the coming days. Health officials are working to ease ...

The hidden ‘Fourth Wave’ of the Covid pandemic in America

Even in ordinary years, the winter and holiday season turn up the needle on stress. The pandemic winter promises a new layer to our mental ...

In America, Uber asks CDC to prioritise drivers for vaccinations

The company, in a letter to the CDC’s advisory committee on immunisation practices, said its drivers provided critical transportation for e...

FIFA extends 7-team Club World Cup to 2021; Japan to host

FIFA wanted a December 2020 edition in Qatar to be the last with seven teams — six continental champions and the host nation's domestic lea...

What the future holds for undocumented immigrants in America

There are 11 million undocumented immigrants in this country, and millions who are the children, siblings and spouses of the undocumented; ...