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The USA is willing to increase its investment in climate-smart technology in the agriculture and food security sector of Bangladesh.
US President Joe Biden on Friday said that direct involvement by the US and NATO allies in the Russia-Ukraine conflict would result in ‘World War III’.
US President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced tough new sanctions on Russia for beginning an invasion of Ukraine but said there was still time to avoid war, even as Vladimir Putin signaled plans to send troops beyond Russia's borders.
A study in monkeys pitting the current Moderna COVID-19 booster against an Omicron-specific booster showed no significant differences in protection, suggesting an Omicron-specific booster may not be needed, US government researchers reported on Friday.
The coronavirus pandemic reached a grim new milestone in the United States on Friday with the country’s cumulative death toll from the virus surpassing 900,000.
The United States on Wednesday deployed several thousand troops to bolster NATO forces in Eastern Europe, as the leaders of France and Germany flagged trips to Moscow to address Western fears of an invasion of Ukraine.
The United States, Britain and Canada hit top Myanmar justice officials with sanctions on Monday on the one-year anniversary of a military coup.
Influential US Congressman and Chair of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Gregory W Meeks on Tuesday said that they do not want to impose any sanctions against Bangladesh.
United States President Joe Biden has nominated Bangladeshi-American Nusrat Jahan Choudhury to be the country’s first Muslim woman to serve as a federal judge. Biden on Wednesday nominated eight new judges.
COVID-19 hospitalizations in the United States have increased by about 33 percent and deaths are up by about 40 percent from a week earlier, the head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Wednesday.
The United States shattered daily COVID-19 cases record again as nearly 1.5 million new COVID-19 cases were reported across the country on Monday.
The United States reported at least 1.13 million new coronavirus infections on Monday, the highest daily total of any country in the world as the spread of the highly contagious Omicron variant showed no signs of slowing.
At least 19 people were killed, including nine children, and dozens were injured when a fire started by a malfunctioning space heater spread smoke through a 19-floor building in The Bronx borough of New York City on Sunday, city officials said.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Wednesday it expanded the eligibility of Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE’s booster doses to those 12 to 15 years old.
At least 12 people, including 8 children, were killed after a fire tore through a converted three-story house in United States’ Philadelphia on Wednesday.
The US, Britain, France and Australia have all announced record numbers of daily COVID-19 cases as the WHO warned on Tuesday that Omicron’s dizzying spread increased the risk of newer, more dangerous variants emerging.
Dhaka sent a letter to Washington requesting to reconsider its sanctions on Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and some of its former and current officials.
Air travel continued to be severely disrupted in the United States on Saturday, with bad weather in parts of the country adding to the impact of a massive spike in COVID-19 infections fuelled by the Omicron variant.
The United States on Tuesday said that it will distribute hundreds of millions of free coronavirus tests in the face of surging Omicron cases, which forced governments worldwide to re-impose restrictions ahead of the holidays.
The United States have reported its first death linked to the Omicron variant as Texas’ Harris County on Monday registered its first death related to the variant.
