
US President Joe Biden acknowledged the possibility of holding a meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on January 10, the White House said in a pool report....

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics has won a more than USD 492 million US Navy modification contract to provide logistics support for delivered F-35 jets for the Air Force, Marine Corps and the Navy, the US Defence Department said....

Amid the global surge of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, almost 3,000 flights have been cancelled and more than 11,500 flights have been delayed worldwide on Tuesday....

The US continues to hope that North Korea will respond positively to its outreach for dialogue, a State Department spokesperson said. ...

As the new Omicron Covid-19 variant is increasing single-day cases to the highest level in the US, major cities, including New York, have scaled down or cancelled New Year's Eve events for a second consecutive year....

Over 7.5 million children have tested positive for Covid-19 since the onset of the pandemic in the US, representing 1 in 10 American children, according to the latest report of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Children's Hospital Association....

Hans Grundberg, the special envoy of the UN Secretary general for Yemen, has said that escalating violence in the country has been "among the worst" in recent years, and civilians are increasingly being targeted. ...

The lightning spread of the new Omicron variant in the US has driven daily Covid-19 new cases to a record high of over 510,000. ...

A Russia-NATO meeting is expected on January 12, Sputnik reported citing a news agency....

Interstate 80 and US Route 50, the two key highways linking the west and east US, were closed in the mountainous areas of Northern California due to a strong snowstorm battering the state....