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WASHINGTON: Donald Trump's impeachment Wednesday confirmed that "no one is above the law," US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said after the defiant Republican president was impeached for the second time in 13 months. "Today in a bipartisan…

WASHINGTON: President-elect Joe Biden has selected SamanthaPower, the US ambassador to the United Nations under President Barack Obama, to run the US Agency for International Development. That's the agency that oversees US foreign…

WASHINGTON: US President-elect Joe Biden has called for a $2,000 "stimulus checks" to his fellow Americans, arguing that the current $6,00 coronavirus relief payment is not enough to choose between paying rent or putting food on the…

WASHINGTON: US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris has said that there is a need to build back the economy better so that it lifts up everyone as the world's largest economy has been severely hit by the coronavirus pandemic. Speaking to…

WASHINGTON: Denouncing Donald Trump's comments stoking supporters to mount an attack on the US Capitol, popular Indian-American Republican politician Nikki Haley has said the president has not always chosen the right words and his…

WASHINGTON: US President-elect Joe Biden has said he will introduce an immigration legislation "immediately" after taking office, reversing the Trump administration's policies. Biden will taken the oath of office on January 20. "I will…

WASHINGTON: President-elect Joe Biden has said President Donald Trump was the "most incompetent" presidents in US history. Sidestepping the questions related to impeachment or removal from office in the remaining 12 days, Biden said that…

ROME: Former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi bemoaned on Friday the "ugly ending" to Donald Trump's time at the White House. Berlusconi said "it would be unjust and uncharitable" to deny Trump's achievements as US President, notably on…

UNITED NATIONS: China on Thursday warned the United States would pay a "heavy price" if its United Nations Ambassador Kelly Craft made good on plans to travel to Taiwan next week. Democratic and self-ruled Taiwan lives under the constant…

WASHINGTON: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday hit back at assertions that a mob attack on the Capitol showed the United States to be a "banana republic." A number of foreign critics as well as former US president George W. Bush…