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Moscow, Russia | XINHUA |  Russia will try to retrieve the wreckage of a U.S. surveillance drone that crashed into the Black Sea on Tuesday, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said Wednesday. “I don’t know if we will be able to get the remains or not, but it is …

U.S. Mission Releases ‘Report to the Ugandan People’ 60th Anniversary Edition   Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The U.S. Mission on Wednesday marked 60 years of USA-Uganda development partnership by releasing a 60th anniversary edition of the ‘Report to the Ugandan People’.  This is the 6th consecutive annual report that …

Washington, US |  THE INDEPENDENT | President Joe Biden has confirmed that the US military has shot down a massive Chinese surveillance balloon that moved across the continental US this week. The US believes the balloon was being used for surveillance, disputing China’s statement that it was a civilian aircraft used …

COMMENT | Zhu Shaobin – Xinhua |  High-ranking U.S. officials are heading to Africa, hot on the heels of the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit held last month for the first time in eight years. Following U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s trip to the continent earlier this month, U.S. Ambassador to the …

Washington, US | Xinhua |  U.S. President Joe Biden will deliver his State of the Union address to the divided Congress next month, the White House said on Friday. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters that Biden had accepted House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s invitation to address a joint …

Washington, USA | Xinhua | The U.S. government released on Thursday a new group of records related to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy (JFK). The National Archives posted more than 13,000 documents containing newly released information subject to legislation passed by Congress in 1992. With Thursday’s release, …

Los Angeles, US | Xinhua | Almost 14.8 million children in the United States have tested positive for COVID-19 since the onset of the pandemic, according to the latest report by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Children’s Hospital Association. Nearly 238,000 of these cases have been added …

Washington, US | Xinhua |  Charles Gill, 41, a teacher in Pennsylvania, had COVID-19 a few months back. While many of his friends only had symptoms for a few days, his have lingered a few months. “I recovered but I’m still tired a lot,” he told Xinhua, adding that he …

  Washington, US | Xinhua| The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden announced Monday that the United States will provide Ukraine with 1 billion U.S. dollars worth of additional security assistance, the largest one-time weapons package since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. According to a statement by the Department …

Trump confirms FBI now at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida Washington, US  | Xinhua | Former U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday evening that his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, had been raided by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Trump said in a statement that his …