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Liz Vereshko, left, is assisted into PPE equipment by fellow nurse Evana Croda before stepping into a patients room in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. (AP)

They don't want our IT guys, but they want our nurses, docs

US to offer 40,000 Green Cards to foreign medics while temporarily banning the issuance of work-based visas like H-1B

9 May 2020 2:04 PM IST

US President Donald Trump. (AFP)

US reversal prevents UN vote on pandemic truce

The resoltuion had called for a 90-day "humanitarian pause" to allow governments to better address the pandemic among...

9 May 2020 2:00 PM IST

President Donald Trump (left) passes Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (AP)

Evidence shows White House buried CDC report

The report contains detailed advice from the nation's top disease control experts for reopening communities during the...

9 May 2020 11:40 AM IST

President Donald Trumps White House Senior Adviser Stephen Miller (left) and Katie Miller. (AP)

Mike Pence's press secretary tests positive for coronavirus

This is the second person who works at the White House complex known to test positive for the virus this week

9 May 2020 9:58 AM IST

Afghan security personnel stand guard at the site of a suicide bomber attack on the southern outskirts of Kabul. (AP)

US gives India key role in Afghan peace process

Strengthening its ties with Kabul, New Delhi meanwhile dispatched a consignment of 10,000 tonnes of wheat on Thursday to...

9 May 2020 9:25 AM IST

US citizen wait to check in on a humanitarian flight towards Fort Lauderdale at Tocumen international airport in Panama City. (AFP)

US to temporarily ban immigrant visas including H-1B

Nearly 500,000 migrant workers are employed in the US in the H-1B status

9 May 2020 8:44 AM IST

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (PIB)

To mask or not to mask?

World leaders are being closely scrutinised over their choice to wear a mask - or not

8 May 2020 4:00 PM IST

US President Donald Trump (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Photos by AFP)

Putin-Trump discuss coronavirus, arms control, oil over phone call

Both exchange greetings ahead of the 75th anniversary of Nazi defeat in WWII, emphasizing on the "histroic alliance"...

8 May 2020 2:49 PM IST

Authorities say firefighters in the Florida Panhandle battled wildfires through the night that have forced hundreds of people to evacuate from their homes. (AP)

Hundreds evacuated as wildfires rage in Florida

With only 35% of the fire contained, officials say it could be days before the fire could be brought under control

8 May 2020 1:39 PM IST

A nurse takes the pulse of a patient in the influenza ward of the Walter Reed hospital in Washington. (AP)

World in 2020 resembles 1918 despite science advance

As in 1918's Spanish flu, people are again hearing hollow assurances at odds with the reality on ground

8 May 2020 11:45 AM IST

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. (AP)

Accuser says Joe Biden should quit White House race

Reade was one of eight women who last year came forward to say Biden had touched them in ways that made them...

8 May 2020 10:27 AM IST

US President Donald Trump. (AFP)

Trump to be screened for coronavirus daily after aide tests positive

Trump says he and vice president Mike Pence had very little contact with the patient

8 May 2020 9:02 AM IST