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New York, US | Xinhua |  The old Cold War is the wrong way to frame what is happening now between China and the United States, and both sides should cooperate on climate and other issues, said an article published on The New York Times. “Governments that plunge into a …

  Washington, USA | Xinhua | Colin Powell, a former U.S. secretary of state and former joint chiefs of staff, on Monday died of COVID-19 complications at the age of 84. He had been fully vaccinated, his family said. The American politician, diplomat and retired four-star general served as the …

London, UK  | Xinhua | Experts are worried that it might be difficult to get the shots in those young arms as the authorization of COVID-19 vaccines for U.S. children aged 5 to 11 is approaching, The Guardian has reported. Only one third of U.S. parents showed their willingness to …

WORLD AFFAIRS | Isidoros Karderinis | The new AUKUS Partnership, the new geopolitical alliance of Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, to enhance security in the Indian and Pacific Oceans zone envisages the provision of the necessary technology by the United States and Great Britain to Australia be …

Shanksville, US | DENG XIANLAI & XU JIANMEI – XINHUA |  The weather turned crisp and clear after a sudden downpour that sheeted the site in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where United Airlines Flight 93, the fourth plane of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, crashed 20 years ago, claiming all lives onboard. Windy …

Beijing, China | XINHUA | Saturday marks the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, which ushered in a global war on terror. Despite the progress made in international efforts to fight terrorism, the world remains beset with its tangible threats. If history is any guide, military predominance and hegemony …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The US Ambassador to Uganda, Natalie Brown, has reaffirmed their commitment towards fostering epidemiology training with the aim of strengthening Uganda’s health systems in response to disease outbreaks. Speaking at the launch of the Field Epidemiology Training Program-FETP in Jinja city on Tuesday, Natalie said …

How the former president’s memoirs show a good insight to US politics but provides prejudice on other nations THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | I find former U.S. president, Barack Obama, intelligent, thoughtful, insightful, socially intelligent, calm and reasonable. But I also find him pompous, pretentious, opportunistic, arrogant …

Washington, USA | Xinhua | U.S. President Joe Biden has partially extended a ban on evicting tenants who have been economically impacted by COVID-19. But it remains unknown whether the moratorium will survive mounting legal challenges. Last year, after the pandemic hit, capacity restrictions on businesses such as restaurants and …

How the US and her NATO allies lost trillions in a vain effort to turn Afghanistan into Denmark THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | After twenty years of occupation and trillions of dollars spent fighting the Taliban, the United States and her NATO allies are beating a hasty …