Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | A U.S. delegation will travel to Doha, Qatar, over the weekend to meet with senior Afghan Taliban representatives, the State Department said on Friday. “This meeting is a continuation of the pragmatic engagements with the Taliban on issues of U.S. vital national interest,” a State Department …
Read More »U.S. discloses size of nuclear stockpile
Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | The U.S. State Department has disclosed the number of nuclear weapons in the country’s stockpile. A report issued on Tuesday showed that the U.S. stockpile consisted of 3,750 nuclear warheads as of September 2020. The stockpile includes both “active” and “inactive” warheads, the report noted, adding …
Read More »U.S. homicides rise nearly 30 percent in 2020: FBI
Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | Homicides in the United States rose nearly 30 percent in 2020 from 2019, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)’s Uniform Crime Report for 2020 published on Monday. “In 2020, there were an estimated 1,277,696 violent crimes,” the agency said in a statement. Among them, …
Read More »Kyagulanyi stopped from travelling to United States over Covid-19 restrictions
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The President of the National Unity Platform-NUP, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu has been stopped from travelling to the United States of America to attend party activities over COVID-19 concerns. In a statement on his social media platform (Facebook), Kyagulanyi said yesterday he left Uganda for the …
Read More »U.S. to ease travel restrictions for fully vaccinated foreign visitors
President Joe Biden will ease foreign travel restrictions into the United States beginning in November Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | The United States will no longer prohibit foreign visitors from entering the country starting November if they are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, the White House said Monday when announcing a set …
Read More »U.S. abuse of drones in “war on terror” exposes hegemonic excess
Beijing, China | Xinhua | A U.S. drone strike in late August in the Afghan capital of Kabul supposedly targeting terrorists turned out to have 10 innocent civilians killed instead, including seven children. Amid a cascade of searing media reports, Commander of U.S. Central Command Kenneth McKenzie on Friday admitted the …
Read More »Uganda receives 1.6 million doses of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda has received a consignment of more than 1.6 million doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines thanks to a donation by the United States government. This is the second consignment of COVID-19 vaccines that the Biden administration has sent to Uganda. The first arrived on September …
Read More »U.S., Qatar call on Taliban to facilitate evacuations from Afghanistan
Doha, Qatar | Xinhua | The United States and Qatar on Tuesday urged the Afghan Taliban to live up to their commitment to facilitate the evacuations from Afghanistan. This appeal came during a joint press conference held in Doha by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, …
Read More »Tracing origins of America’s war addiction
America’s addiction to the use of armed forces lies in its yearn to maintain hegemony Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | Since its declaration of independence in 1776, the United States has been involved in warfare through most of its history. And Washington has been proactively engaged in military interventions or even …
Read More »EU removes U.S. from safe travel list due to COVID-19 surge
Brussels, Belgium | Xinhua | The Council of the European Union (EU) on Monday recommended that member states of the EU reintroduce restrictions on travellers from the United States due to a surge in COVID-19 infections there. The decision, which the Council announced through a statement, reversed a decision taken in …
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