News roundup for Aug. 12, 2022
– The CDC officially dropped quarantine and social distancing requirements from its COVID-19 guidelines, citing 95% of Americans 16 and older now have some level of immunity.
The Justice Department asked the court to unseal the warrant issued to the FBI to search former President Trump’s Florida estate, given the public’s interest for more details.
National gas prices dropped below $4.00 a gallon for the first time since March, which is still $0.80 higher than it was a year ago.
And a group of teens in Chicago broke a Guinness World Record, creating a mosaic of the Ukrainian flag using 5,000 boxes of cereal gifted by Kellogg’s.
The Hindu priest on the banks of the holy river Ganges spoke softly, but had a threatening message 75 years after the birth of independent India: his religion must be the heart of Indian identity.
An international LGBT gathering in Taiwan was cancelled Friday after global organisers demanded the self-ruling island's name be removed from the 2025 event — a move slammed by the government.
India's palm oil imports in July fell 10% from a month ago, as refiners ramped up purchases of rival soyoil to take advantage of New Delhi's move to allow duty-free imports of the vegetable oil to calm all-time high prices, a trade body said on Friday. Higher soyoil purchases by the world's biggest edible oil importer will support U.S. soyoil prices, but will dent rival palm oil's share in Indian buying and force Malaysian and Indonesian sellers to offer discounts to regain the market share, traders said. India's palm oil imports in July fell to 530,420 tonnes from 590,921 tonnes a month earlier, the Solvent Extractors' Association of India (SEA) said in a statement.
Aaron Fotheringham was born with a disability but that did not stop him from becoming an inspiration for the whole generation of extreme WCMX riders.
Michelle Bachelet is to make the first visit by a UN rights chief to Bangladesh next week, including to the sprawling refugee camps home to nearly a million Rohingyas.
Hundreds of billions of dollars for clean energy projects, cheaper prescription drugs and new corporate taxes are a few of the key items in US President Joe Biden's massive investment plan, which Congress has now passed.
Akshay Kumar is the noble-souled hero charged with marrying off his four sisters, while they are left mostly as figures of fun Painfully unsubtle … Raksha Bandhan Photograph: Publicity image
The Indian rupee was headed for a weekly decline on Friday despite softer-than-expected U.S. inflation data, with some traders saying the local currency underperformed its Asian peers due to a one-time dollar outflow. The local currency is down 0.6% from a week ago. By comparison, the onshore Chinese yuan was up 0.4% this week, the Indonesian rupiah rose 1.4% and the Singapore dollar by 0.8%.
When India and Pakistan were forged out of violent partition 75 years ago, the split also created one of sport's greatest rivalries.
The United States will boost trade with Taiwan in response to China's "provocative" behaviour, the White House said Friday, as it insisted on the right of air and sea passage through the tense strait.
Opposition leader Park Yong-jin says pardon confirms widely-held belief that ‘you are free if you are rich, but guilty if poor’
An Australian economist detained by Myanmar's junta has pleaded not guilty to breaching the colonial-era official secrets act, a source close to the case said on Friday.
Indian administered Kashmir on Saturday sacked four government employees, citing their involvement in activities "prejudicial to the interests of the security of the state". One of those dismissed is the son of the leader of a militant group fighting against India in the disputed Himalayan territory. India and Pakistan each rule part of Kashmir and claim it in full.
Majority of public figures have chosen not to comment on attempt on Indian-born writer’s life Salman Rushdie remains on a ventilator after being attacked on stage in western New York state on Friday. Photograph: Clemens Bilan/EPA
The UN has a ‘clear commitment to the full, verifiable and irreversible denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula’
Myanmar's ruling junta has moved to restrict political parties from meeting foreigners or international organisations ahead of an election expected next year.
Thousands of troops from Indonesia, the United States and allies held a live-fire drill Friday as part of what a top US general said was Washington's efforts to prevent a regional conflict after China's "destabilising actions" around Taiwan.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India said on Friday it opposed any unilateral change to the status quo over Taiwan but that its stance on the 'one-China' policy remained consistent, days after Beijing said it hoped New Delhi would continue to recognise its claim to self-governing Taiwan. China launched ballistic missiles and deployed multiple aircraft and warships around Taiwan in recent days, angered by last week's visit to the island by U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The Chinese Embassy in New Delhi said last week that India was one of the first countries to recognise Beijing's 'one-China principle' – that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China – and that it hoped http://in.china-embassy.gov.cn/eng/embassy_news/202208/t20220804_10733759.htm India would not change its position.
Tens of thousands of Afghan men, women and children rushed to Kabul's airport a year ago in a desperate bid to flee the advancing Taliban, who seized power on August 15, 2021.