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US First Lady Jill Biden has tested positive for COVID-19 just days before President Joe Biden, who tested negative for the virus, is due to travel to a Group of 20 Summit in India, the White House said on Monday. Biden’s 72-year-old wife, whose symptoms were described as mild, last had COVID in August of last year. The president, now...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday announced the departure of defence minister Oleksiy Reznikov, calling for “new approaches” a year and a half into Russia’s invasion. The announcement came hours after Ukraine fought off an attack by Russian drones in the southern Odesa region early Sunday that hit a Danube port on the border with NATO member Romania. “Oleksiy Reznikov...

Dominic Pezzola, 46, who was convicted of assaulting police and obstructing an official proceeding, was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Ethan Nordean, 32, who led the group’s march on Congress on 6 January 2021, was sentenced to 18 years for a more serious seditious conspiracy charge. The former head of the group, Enrique Tarrio, will be sentenced next week....

Governments of the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Taiwan on Thursday joined India in rejecting China’s new national map, issuing strongly worded statements accusing Beijing of claiming their territory. China published a new version of its national map on Monday to correct what Beijing has in the past referred to as “problematic maps” that it claims misrepresent its territorial borders. India...

North Korea says it has fired two short-range ballistic missiles to simulate nuclear strikes on military targets in South Korea. State media said the tests were held as a warning against the US deployment of strategic bombers to the region. South Korean media reported the missiles were fired off the east coast around midnight. The launches come amid Washington and...

Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan has been provided with a slew of new facilities at Attock District Jail and expressed his satisfaction over them to a top police officer during his visit to the prison in the Punjab province. Punjab IG Prisons Mian Farooq Nazir on Sunday visited Khan, who is serving a three-year jail term after being sentenced...

Thousands of airline passengers faced long delays and flight cancellations at the end of the busy summer bank holiday weekend after a lengthy failure in the UK’s air traffic control system on Monday grounded hundreds of aircraft. National Air Traffic Services (Nats) said it had identified and remedied a “technical issue” that hit its ability to automatically process flight plans,...

Amid a public outcry over inflated electricity bills, Pakistan’s interim Prime Minister Anwaar ul Haq Kakar held an emergency meeting on Sunday during which he directed authorities to take “concrete steps” within 48 hours for a cut in the power tariff. The directives were issued at an emergency meeting at the PM’s Office (PMO) convened by Kakar in a bid...

Former President Donald Trump surrendered Thursday at the Fulton County jail,where he was booked on 13 felony counts related to an alleged scheme to overturnthe results of the presidential election in Georgia.His surrender in Georgia marks the fourth time this year the former president hasturned himself in after criminal charges were brought against him by federal and stateofficials, but it’s...