China’s Xi Jinping uses trade to coerce compliance with diktats: US NSA O’Brien

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ US National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien has alleged that in addition to propaganda and influence operations, China uses trade to “coerce” compliance with its diktats. The top Trump administration official, in his address to a group of people at Phoenix in Arizona, said that China’s efforts to control the mind of people residing beyond its borders is well underway. “In addition to propaganda and influence operations, the Chinese Communist Party uses trade to coerce compliance with its dictates,” O’Brien said, according to a White House transcript released on Friday.…

Satellite image: Iran blast struck by suspected missile site

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ An explosion that rattled Iran’s capital came from an area in its eastern mountains that analysts believe hides an underground tunnel system and missile production sites, satellite photographs showed Saturday. What exploded in the incident early Friday that sent a massive fireball into the sky near Tehran remains unclear, as does the cause of the blast. The unusual response of the Iranian government in the aftermath of the explosion, however, underscores the sensitive nature of an area near where international inspectors believe the Islamic Republic conducted high-explosive…

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‘Lot of asymptomatic cases’: Top China infection expert on Covid-19 cluster

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ The new cluster of Covid-19 infections in Beijing could have begun a month earlier than thought, a top infection expert has said as the capital on Thursday recorded 21 new cases, increasing the caseload to 158 in a week with nearly all the infections linked to a sprawling fresh food market in the southwestern Fengtai district. Gao Fu, the director of the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said the outbreak probably did not occur in early June or late May, but probably a month…

US ‘closely monitoring’ India-China border situation

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ The United States has said it is “closely monitoring” the India-China border situation and an American media report suggested China may have suffered severe losses in the eastern Ladakh clashes and put the number of its fatalities at 35 citing an intelligence assessment. US News, the media publication, went on to suggest that the Chinese are taking the deaths as a humiliation and might be reluctant, therefore, to announce or confirm them for fear of emboldening other adversaries. In the reported assessment of US intelligence it was…

Global Covid tally crosses 8 million mark, WHO sees ‘green shoots of hope’

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ The world health organization on Wednesday said that green shoots of hope have emerged despite the world crossing a grim milestone of over 8 million deaths due to coronavirus pandemic. The director general of the global health organization added that the developments in the past couple of months have shown that together through global solidarity, humanity can overcome this pandemic. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus’s comments came on a day when the global tally of the Covid-19 infections crossed the 8.3 million mark with 60 thousand fresh cases registered…

US fighter plane crashes off coast of northeast England

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ A U.S. Air Force fighter plane with one pilot on board crashed into the North Sea on Monday. The status of the pilot wasn’t known. The F-15C Eagle from the 48th Fighter Wing was on a routine training mission from RAF Lakenheath when it crashed at 9:40 a.m. local time (4:40 a.m. EDT). The cause of the crash wasn’t immediately clear. U.K. search and rescue authorities are taking part in the search of the crash site. Lakenheath is a Royal Air Force base that hosts the U.S.…

US employers laid-off 7.7 million workers in April

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ US employers laid-off 7.7 million workers in April — a sign of how deep the economic hole is as offices, restaurants, stores and schools are re-opening after being shuttered because of the coronavirus. The Labor Department also said in a Tuesday report that job openings plummeted and hiring all but disappeared in April. The number of available jobs fell 16% from March to 5 million. Hires declined 31% to 3.5 million. The grim April — which followed an bleaker March with 11.5 million layoffs — suggests that…

Donald Trump’s week to be remembered as his undoing or his revival

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ Donald Trump endured one of the grimmest weeks of his presidency, as days of protests in U.S. cities emerged as the biggest test yet of his ability to lead in a crisis and put new strains on his argument for a second term. Yet, for Trump it was also a week that ended on a high note. An unexpected surge in May hiring, despite the coronavirus pandemic, and an easing of tensions on American streets allowed him to claim Friday, in an extemporaneous Rose Garden speech, that…

Donald Trump says US ‘largely through’ coronavirus pandemic

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ President Donald Trump asserted Friday that the United States has made it through the worst of the coronavirus pandemic. “We had the greatest economy in the history of the world. And that strength let us get through this horrible pandemic, largely through, I think we’re doing really well,” Trump said at a news briefing called after the release of surprisingly good US job numbers. “We’ve made every decision correctly,” Trump said of his handling of the pandemic, which has claimed more than 108,000 lives in the United…