US COVID-19 task force to continue indefinitely: Trump

Washington (IANS) US President Donald Trump said that the White House Coronavirus Task Force will continue "indefinitely", a day after officials hinted that the team would wind down.

The task force "will continue on indefinitely with its focus…

Trump vetoes resolution to limit war power against Iran

Washington (IANS) US President Donald Trump vetoed a resolution aimed at limiting the president's power to use military forces against Iran.

"This was a very insulting resolution, introduced by Democrats as part of a strategy to win an…

Gilead in talks with Indian drugmakers for remdesivir production

New Delhi (IANS) US-based biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences said on Wednesday that it is negotiating long-term voluntary licences with several generic drugmakers in India and Pakistan to produce experimental antiviral drug remdesivir.

Italian researchers claim world's first Covid-19 vaccine: Report

Rome (IANS) Italian researchers have claimed that they have successfully developed a vaccine to contain coronavirus (Covid-19) which is likely to work on humans, a report said.

Luigi Aurisicchio, CEO of Takis, the firm developing the medication,…

As US states loosen COVID-19 restrictions, projections raise toll sharply

New York (IANS) With about half of the 50 US states beginning to relax the COVID-19 restrictions without fully meeting the criteria for it, new models of the pandemic's deadly force say a sharply higher death toll is possible.

A day after…

Venezuela blames US for 'mercenary attacks' on its coast

Caracas (IANS) Venezuela's Foreign Ministry has blamed the US for attempting to unload mercenary groups onto the country's central coast that left eight dead and two arrested.

The Venezuelan Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Monday…

Enforced disappearances of Pakistanis; Baloch, Pashtun activists killed

New Delhi/Islamabad (IANS) The killings of a Baloch journalist and a Pashtun human rights activist last week, have given credence to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan's (HRCP) verdict that the enforced disappearances of Pakistanis were "either…

Iran denies harming Afghan citizens in border incident

Tehran (IANS) Iran has rejected reports claiming that Iranian border guards had tortured and thrown Afghans into a river to prevent their illegal entry into the country, the media reported.

"The incident affecting a number of Afghanistan's…

US will have COVID-19 vaccine by year's end: Trump

Washington, May 4 (IANS) US President Donald Trump expressed confidence that the country would have a COVID-19 vaccine by the end of the year and revised the number of deaths due to the disease in America up to a minimum of 80,000.

"We are…

Gunshots fired from N.Korea hit S.Korean DMZ guard post

Seoul (IANS) Multiple gunshots fired from North Korea on Sunday hit a South Korean guard post inside the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), prompting the latter to broadcast a warning and retaliate, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) here said.

The gunshots…