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Expedite process of issuing visas to int'l students: Senators to US govt

There are over 100,000 Indian students in the US and they contribute significantly to the American economy.

United States passes bill to support Taiwan's participation in WHO

Taiwan's efforts to join WHO begin in 1997

US job growth exceeds forecast in July as unemployment rate falls

Payrolls climbed by 943,000 last month after an upwardly revised 938,000 increase in June

Gold slips on firmer dollar as markets prep for United States jobs data

Spot gold fell 0.3% to $1,799.20 per ounce by 0844 GMT

US FTC says Facebook misused privacy decree to shut down ad research

The US FTC criticized Facebook on Thursday for making "misleading claims" to explain why it had disabled the accounts of researchers studying political ads on the social media platform

Citi Open: Rafael Nadal loses to 50th-ranked Lloyd Harris in Washington

If Rafael Nadal was hoping to ease his painful left foot back into action after nearly two months off tour, that's hardly what happened in his Citi Open debut, which ended after just two matches.

Losses in track, wins on field: Another rocky day for USA at Tokyo Olympics

A five-minute burst of action near the backstretch of the Olympic track served up the perfect snapshot of what is going right, and all that is going wrong, for the U.S. track and field team in Tokyo. At one moment in the pole vault pit Thursday night, Katie Nageotte cleared 4.90 meters (16 feet, 1 inch) and went running up to the stands to celebrate a gold medal that had looked like a lost cause only an hour earlier. At the next, just as the 400-meter sprinters approached the halfway point, American champion Michael Norman was steaming so far ahead of the competition, it became clear he could not sustain the pace. He didn't. Norman finished fifth. The U.S. men's sprinters, once the dominant power across the global track game, left the stadium without having won a single gold medal over the first seven days of the nine-day meet. But Nageotte's gold, won in a tense back-and-forth with Russian athlete Anzhelika Sidorova, was the third victory in the field for the U.S., two of which ha

US Covid-19 cases hit 6-month high, mulls jabs for foreign travelers

The country is reporting over 94,819 cases on a seven-day average, a five-fold increase in less than a month, Reuters data through Wednesday showed.

Oregon examines investment in spyware firm NSO Group amid controversy

The future ownership of an Israeli spyware company whose product has been used to hack into the cellphones of journalists, human rights workers and possibly even heads of state is up in the air.

Most unvaccinated Americans see jabs as greater risk than Covid: Survey

Most unvaccinated American adults don't believe the Covid-19 vaccines are very effective and see the jabs as a greater health risk than the virus itself, a new survey has revealed.

Olympics: Not again! US men's team gone after another messy relay

A slow exchange left the American 4x100-meter relay team in an all-too-familiar spot at the Olympics on Thursday out of medal contention

Delta variant of Covid-19 accounts for 93.4% of new cases in US

The Delta variant now accounts for an estimated 93.4 per cent of all the new Covid-19 cases in the US that were reported during the last two weeks of July

Tourists coming to US for Covid-19 vaccine, says US airport official

The global shortage of vaccines and its excess in the United States has quietly resulted in a new kind of tourism in the US, said an official. Rich people from various countries of the world have been travelling to the United States to get shots of the COVID-19 vaccines, do some shopping and then fly back to their home country after a short stay. Known as "vaccine tourism," this concept represents the fastest-growing category of visitors to the SFO Medical Clinic, where the free Johnson & Johnson single-dose vaccine is administered, the San Francisco International Airport said Wednesday. The international airport in California is the first US airport to have released such data on vaccine tourism. At present, 80 percent of new vaccine appointments at SFO are coming from non-US citizens, and over 1,000 doses have already been administered to visitors from 58 countries around the world, the airport said. Of these 1,000, only eight are from India. The top five countries on this ...

Lawyer for Huawei Tech CFO argue US was 'selective' in disclosure

Lawyers for a senior executive for Huawei argued in court that the US strategically crafted a misleading record of the case and acted in bad faith when presenting reasons for her extradition

Gold price today at Rs 46,950 per 10 gm, silver trending at Rs 68,000 a kg

In New Delhi, the price stands at Rs 47,040 per 10 gm

Joe Biden says Andrew Cuomo should resign over sexual harassment report

Prez, Pelosi latest to demand Guv step down; state Democrats vow to speed up impeachment probe

Tokyo Olympics: Australia faces US in bid for first women's soccer medal

Australia's women's soccer team has already made team history at the Tokyo Games

Lockheed Martin begins search for new CFO after Possenriede's exit

Security and aerospace company Lockheed Martin Corp said on Tuesday it is searching for a new chief financial officer after Kenneth Possenriede resigned from the post due to personal reasons.

US lawmakers debate repealing Saddam Hussein-era war measures on Iraq

The Biden administration encouraged lawmakers to repeal an authorisation for military action in Iraq crafted when Saddam Hussein was still alive

Covid-19 vaccines targeting delta variant may be needed, say researchers

Most vaccinated countries in the world have seen surges in Covid cases and hospitalisations linked to the delta strain.