A US delegation was scheduled to start a two-day meet with senior Taliban representatives in Doha yesterday in their first face-to-face meeting at a senior level since Washington pulled its troops from Afghanistan and the hardline group took over the country, two senior administration officials told Reuters.

Latin America’s death toll from Covid-19 surpassed 1.5 million Friday, according to an AFP tally drawn from official figures.

The Chilean public prosecutor’s office on Friday opened an investigation into President Sebastian Pinera over the sale of a mining company through a firm owned by his children, which appeared in the Pandora Papers leaks.

The United States will accept the use by international visitors of Covid-19 vaccines authorized by US regulators or the World Health Organization,

The United States and Mexico agreed Friday to overhaul their fight against drug trafficking to address the root causes and step up efforts to curb cross-border arms smuggling.

The United States will accept the use by international visitors of Covid-19 vaccines authorised by US regulators or the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said late on Friday.

Former president Donald Trump has told four former senior aides not to comply with a congressional probe into the January 6 attack on Congress, US media reported Thursday.

Daniel Craig may be saying goodbye as James Bond, but his iconic Aston Martin is about to be given a new lease of life, for an ultra-cool $1 million.

UN chief Antonio Guterres on Thursday branded rich nations’ vaccine hogging as immoral and stupid, saying choking off poorer countries’ access to jabs risked undermining their own defences against the pandemic.

The United States and China have agreed in principle for their presidents to hold a virtual meeting before year’s end, a senior US administration official said on Wednesday, after high-level talks meant to improve communication between the two big powers.

When her 2-year-old started feeling sick early last week, Tiffany Jackson didn’t think it might be Covid-19.

Facebook’s previous major scandals barely dented its global dominance, but experts said the tech giant may have hit a red line this time: evidence that it knew children using its apps were at risk of being harmed.

A federal judge ordered Texas to suspend the most restrictive abortion law in the US, calling it an “offensive deprivation” of a constitutional right by banning most abortions in the nation’s second-most populous state since September.

Opposition lawmakers in Chile said Tuesday they will present a parliamentary charge that could lead to the removal of President Sebastian Pinera, whom the Pandora Papers investigation accused of having links to the sale of a mining company by his children’s company.

US lawmakers pounded Facebook on Tuesday, accusing CEO Mark Zuckerberg of pushing for higher profits while being cavalier about user safety, and they demanded regulators investigate whistleblower accusations that the social media company harms children’s mental health and stokes divisions.

Global water resource management is “fragmented and inadequate” and countries should urgently adopt reforms ahead of a looming water crisis, the United Nations weather agency said yesterday.

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen was set to appear before the US Congress yesterday, where she is set to sharply criticize her former employer as “one of the most urgent threats” facing the country, and to demand transparency about its operations in order to better regulate it.

EU leaders will have a hard discussion on Europe’s place in the world at a summit yesterday, as they seek unity on how to deal with superpowers China and the United States.

Governments yesterday moved to limit the fallout from a release of millions of documents detailing how leaders have used offshore tax havens to stash assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

The whistleblower who shared a trove of Facebook documents alleging the social media giant knew its products were fueling hate and harming children’s mental health revealed her identity Sunday in a televised interview, and accused the company of choosing “profit over safety.”