The United States warned yesterday that Bosnian Serb threats to secede from Bosnia violated a 1990s peace deal and would only lead to “isolation and economic despair.”

YouTube announced Wednesday it would remove videos and some high-profile users that falsely claim approved vaccines are dangerous, as social networks seek to crack down on health misinformation around Covid-19 and other diseases.

A Cambodian court yesterday sentenced the owner of a news website to a year in prison for incitement to cause a felony, a prosecutor said, for posting disinformation about a land dispute at a national park.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un condemned a US offer of dialogue as a “petty trick”, state media reported yesterday, and accused the Joe Biden administration of continuing a hostile policy against his nuclear-armed country.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for an “urgent” international response to the political crisis created in Myanmar by the February 1 military coup, in a new report released by the United Nations on Wednesday.

The top US general conceded in a stark admission on Wednesday that the United States “lost” the 20-year war in Afghanistan.

Scientists have discovered a new lizard species in Peru, the national conservation agency said Tuesday.

An aide dubbed the “Music Man” was tasked with playing calming tunes for Donald Trump when he went into rages, according to a scandal-filled book by a former press secretary.

A Bangladeshi national was sentenced to 46 months in prison for trafficking undocumented Bangladeshi individuals from Mexico into the United States, according to the US Department of Justice.

The US Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday denied US landing rights for a charter plane carrying more than 100 Americans and US green card holders evacuated from Afghanistan, organisers of the flight said.

President Joe Biden’s top military leaders are expected to face some of the most contentious hearings in memory this week over the chaotic end to the war in Afghanistan, which cost the lives of U.S. troops and civilians and left the Taliban back in power.

US pharmaceutical company Pfizer said Monday it had begun a clinical trial to test an influenza vaccine designed with the same mRNA technology behind its successful Covid-19 shot.

The number of murders in the United States rose by around 30 percent in 2020 over the previous year, to some 21,500, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said Monday.

The United Nations has condemned the violence and “xenophobia” targeting mainly Venezuelan undocumented migrants in Chile over the weekend, carried out by locals fed up with their presence in the country.

Iran must stop denying the UN nuclear watchdog access to a workshop making centrifuge parts as agreed two weeks ago or face diplomatic retaliation at the agency’s Board of Governors within days, the United States said yesterday.

President Joe Biden will receive his Covid-19 booster shot on Monday, days after federal regulators recommended a third dose of the Pfizer vaccine for Americans age 65 or older and approved them for others with preexisting medical conditions and high-risk work environments.

At least three people were killed Saturday afternoon when an Amtrak train that runs between Seattle and Chicago derailed in north-central Montana, toppling several cars onto their sides, authorities said.

“Are we related?” US President Joe Biden asked India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi when they met at the White House on Friday. “Yes!” Modi joked in reply.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday backed a booster shot of the Pfizer /BioNTech Covid-19

Leaders of the United States, Japan, India and Australia vowed on Friday to pursue a free and open Indo-Pacific region “undaunted by coercion” at their first in-person summit, which presented a united front amid shared concerns about China.