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A new pill to treat COVID-19 has shown “impressive” results in clinical trials, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top medical adviser to President Biden, said.more

American senators from both parties criticized Facebook's actions, accusing the company of trying to make children dependent on its products and concealing research on the harmfulness of Instagram for children. A Facebook representative rejected these allegations.more

A resident of the US state of Illinois died of rabies. A month earlier, he had contracted a bat he had found in his bedroom. This is the first such case since 1954, reported CNN.more

The number of murders in the United States rose nearly 30% in 2020 and overall violent crime rose for the first time in four years, the FBI said in its annual crime report on Monday, in a surge experts attribute in part to COVID-19 hardships.more

In the US and Europe, year-on-year life expectancy is currently at its lowest level since World War II. All because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report by the Leverhulme Demographic Science Center at the University of Oxford.more

US sportswear giant Nike and US retail giant Costco both say they are facing product shortages and delays due to global supply chain problems. more

Europe means less and less for the US, we have a weak political dialogue in NATO, said the French Minister of the Armed Forces Florence Parly in an interview with Le Monde. Parly commented on the recent tensions between France and the US over the breach of the submarine contract for Australia.more

The homicide rate in the U.S. increased by 29 percent in 2020. and this is the largest such increase since the 1960s, according to the data collected for the FBI report, which will be released next Monday, according to the Axios news portal.more

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the administration of a booster dose of Pfizer / BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine to individuals 65 years of age and older, and individuals 18 years of age and older who are at high risk of developing the disease.more

Google has announced that it will buy an office building in New York for $ 2.1 billion. If the deal is successful, it will be one of the largest of its kind in the city, which gives hope to the real estate market limping by the coronavirus pandemic, the New York Times reported.more

The United Kingdom may take steps to join the USMCA North American trade agreement after it has become clear that a free trade agreement with the US cannot be signed soon, British media reports.more

Security cooperation, the situation in Afghanistan, the fight against climate change and the coronavirus pandemic, as well as a free trade agreement - these were the main topics raised during the meeting of US and UK leaders Joe Biden and Boris Johnson.more

The parents of a British 19-year-old who was fatally hit by the wife of an American diplomat reached an agreement with her on a civil lawsuit for damages, it was reported.more

President Joe Biden declared Tuesday the world is at an “inflection point in history,” urging countries to join forces to tackle threats such as climate change, pandemics and corruption - or else risk failing in ways that “will reverberate for generations.”more

According to the Daily News, the Spanish flu claimed about 675,000 lives in the US in 1918. It was then the most deadly pandemic since the founding of the United States. According to Johns Hopkins University, the number of deaths in the US from Covid-19 on Monday around noon was 673 985.more

The United States will reopen in November to air travelers from 33 countries including China, India, Brazil and most of Europe who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, the White House said on Monday, easing tough pandemic-related restrictions that started early last year.more

Pfizer and BioNTech have announced that their Covid-19 vaccine can be used in children 5-11 years of age, and companies will soon apply for its approval for this age group by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).more

K-France defence summit cancelled in Aukus row. Paris furious at scrapping of Australian submarine contract and new three-way technology pact.more

The AUKUS military agreement concluded by Great Britain with the United States and Australia shows its readiness to act tough in defense of its interests - said the new British Foreign Minister Liz Truss in "The Sunday Telegraph".more

US President Joe Biden announced a new tripartite pact, AUKUS, with Australian and British leaders aimed at defense cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region. As a result of the cooperation, Australia is to build nuclear-powered submarines based on American and British technology.more

Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, committed "treason" if, as a new book reported, he secretly contacted China to head off a conflict while Trump was in office.more

The Apple concern presented a new generation of its company phone, the iPhone 13. During the conference, the premieres of new versions of iPad tablets and the Apple Watch Series 7 smartwatch were also announced.more

The allegedly late al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri spoke in a video published on the Internet on the 20th anniversary of the attacks on September 11, 2001, the US SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors extremist organizations in the media, said on Twitter.more

The maternity unit in Lewis County, New York this month suspends delivering deliveries after the resignation of some staff who chose to dismiss rather than undergo compulsory immunization against Covid-19.more

The last 20 years have been a time of missed opportunities, and the way the war in Afghanistan has ended and its consequences will haunt the US for many years, said Andrew L. Peek, a war veteran and former director of the National Security Council for Europe at the White House.more