President-elect Joe Biden will nominate Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo as his Commerce Department secretary and former union official and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh as Labor secretary, his transition team said late on Thursday.

Biden to nominate Rhode Island governor for Commerce, Boston mayor for Labor

India will chair the crucial Taliban and Libya sanctions committees and the Counter-Terrorism Committee of the UN Security Council during its tenure as non-permanent member of the powerful 15-nation UN body.

India to chair UNSC's crucial Taliban and Libya sanctions committees, panel on counter-terrorism

US Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos resigned on Thursday, joining a list of officials quitting President Donald Trump's administration in protest at the storming of the Capitol by his supporters.

US transport, education secretaries, Capitol Police chief resign over violence

Malaysia’s former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad and the secretary-general of Palestinian group Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, have been listed among “The Top 20 Most Dangerous Extremists Around the World” by a US-based Counter Extremism Project (CEP).

Mahathir, Hezbollah secy general listed as world’s ‘most dangerous extremists’ by US-based group

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres will pay a virtual visit to London on Sunday. This will be his first such online effort since the Covid-19 pandemic broke out early last year.

UN chief to pay virtual visit to Britain

The number of people who have been infected with COVID-19 in the Chinese city of Wuhan could be around three times the official figure. COVID-19 was identified in Wuhan at the end of 2019, with the first outbreak associated with a seafood market in the city.

Covid infections in Wuhan three times higher than official figure, study says

Trump administration officials are expected to discuss a proposed expansion of an executive order banning U.S. investment in alleged Chinese military companies at a Thursday afternoon meeting, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Trump administration to mull expansion of China investment ban, report says

United States ambassador to the United Nations, Kelly Craft, will visit Taiwan from January 13 to 15 for meetings with senior Taiwanese officials. China, which claims the democratically run island as its own territory, has been angered by stepped-up support for Taiwan from the outgoing Trump administration, including trips to Taipei by senior US officials.

US envoy to UN will visit Taiwan next week, angering China

The US witnessed another grim milestone amid the chaos at the Capitol, with its daily Covid cases, deaths as well as total hospitalisations all setting new world records over the course of the pandemic.

US sets new record with nearly 4,000 Covid deaths in one day

US President Donald Trump has -- for the first time -- openly acknowledged that Joe Biden will be the next president. This came a day after his supporters stormed the US Capitol in a stunning assault on American democracy as Congress was certifying Biden's victory.

Trump condemns Capitol Hill violence, says rioters defiled seat of democracy

Iran`s elite Revolutionary Guards unveiled an underground missile base at an undisclosed Gulf location on Friday, Iranian state media reported, at a time of heightened tension between Tehran and the United States.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards unveil underground missile base in Gulf

While protesting the police killing of a Black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, several years ago, Johnetta Elzie said she was manhandled by officers. She said they pointed rifles at Black women who were pushing toddlers in strollers and cursed at them to turn around.

Black Lives Matter activists note contrast in police response at Capitol

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