The House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol is seeking a trove of documents and communications from the Trump administration, giving the White House record keepers and other agencies two weeks to turn over information on a lengthy list of prominent people in the former president's orbit....
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on the international community to provide Haiti hit by the earthquake with the necessary assistance....
Afghanistan's exiled President Ashraf Ghani must be brought to justice and face criminal charges of embezzlement if he indeed fled the besieged country with duffle bags full of cash intended for the Afghan people, according to House Oversight Committee Republicans of the US....
Three Punjabi men have been arrested from Brampton city in Canada for using an underage girl in sex trade....
The Covid-19 hospitalisation rate among non-vaccinated people was more than 29 times the rate of fully inoculated persons in Los Angeles County, the most populous in the US, health authorities said....
Oregon Governor Kate Brown has announced that the US state has contracted with two private firms to provide up to 560 nurses and other medical workers to help overwhelmed hospitals....
Mayor of Chicago Lori Lightfoot announced that all the city workers must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 by October 15, while allowing for medical or religious exemptions....
Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced an executive order banning Covid-19 vaccine mandates, two days after the US Food and Drug Administration granted full approval to the Pfizer jab....
US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered mandatory vaccination for all active-duty and reserve members of the military, but has not given an exact deadline for the implementation, according to a Pentagon memo....
The global coronavirus caseload has topped 213.8 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 4.46 million and vaccinations soared to over 5.03 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University. ...
