US President Joe Biden was set to welcome India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday for two days of talks that the White House sees as bolstering “one of the defining partnerships of our age,” despite ongoing concerns about human rights.

The United States has levelled sanctions against Myanmar’s Ministry of Defense and two banks used by the Southeast Asian country’s military junta to purchase arms and other goods in foreign currencies, according to the Treasury website yesterday.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today led an event at the UN Headquarters in New York to mark the International Day of Yoga which created a Guinness world record in terms of participation of most nationalities in a yoga session, the Indian Ministry of External Affairs said

Four people have died after lithium batteries for e-bikes sparked a fire in a New York building, officials said Tuesday, sounding the alarm over the skyrocketing number of such incidents

US President Joe Biden’s son Hunter has agreed to plead guilty to two counts of failure to pay federal income tax, and admitted to illegally owning a gun, prosecutors said yesterday.

Fresh off Donald Trump’s 37-count indictment, several top Republicans, including presidential contenders Mike Pence and Asa Hutchinson, criticised the former US president’s handling of classified information yesterday.

President Joe Biden on Saturday appealed to blue-collar workers to support his re-election quest and help him compel the richest Americans to pay more taxes.

Mali’s interim military authorities on Friday asked for a United Nations peacekeeping force to leave “without delay”, citing a “crisis of confidence” between Malian authorities and the decade-long UN mission known as MINUSMA.

There has been no sign of improvement in the political situation in Myanmar since the 2021 coup, Singapore Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan said on Friday following a meeting in Washington with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who said he shared his counterpart’s pessimism.

The US Senate on Thursday narrowly confirmed civil rights lawyer Nusrat Choudhury to the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York, making her the first Bangladeshi-American and female Muslim federal judge in the United States.

The US Senate on Thursday confirmed civil rights lawyer Nusrat Choudhury to the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York, making her the first Bangladeshi-American and female Muslim federal judge in the United States.

The long hunt for extra-terrestrials just got a big boost.

Ahead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s state visit to Washington, the Biden administration is pushing New Delhi to cut through its own red tape and advance a deal for dozens of US-made armed drones, two people familiar with the matter said.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken will seek to reduce the chances of miscalculation on a rare visit to Beijing, officials said, but both sides expect long-term tensions to fester.

Former US President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to federal criminal charges that he unlawfully kept national-security documents when he left office and lied to officials who sought to recover them

Former US president Donald Trump pleaded not guilty early today to federal criminal charges that he unlawfully kept national-security documents when he left office and lied to officials who sought to recover them.

The Biden administration has taken diplomatic steps that have slowed down a Chinese effort to project military power around the world, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday ahead of a visit to Beijing later this week.

Former President Donald Trump arrived in Miami on Monday to face federal criminal charges, while a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found a vast majority of his fellow Republicans believe the case to be politically motivated

China has been operating an intelligence unit in Cuba for years and upgraded it in 2019 in an effort to enhance its presence on the Caribbean island, a White House official said Saturday.

The latest twist in Donald Trump’s attritional war with US law enforcement, as with so much else in the former president’s story, throws the United States into unprecedented territory.