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Asia Today: China records dozens new cases, defends response
BEIJING - China's capital Beijing recorded another seven coronavirus cases on Wednesday amid a lingering outbreak in the country's north. Another 46 were recorded in Jilin province, 16 in Heilongjiang...
Jan 20, 2021
Biden charts new US direction, promises many Trump reversals
WASHINGTON - Stop. Stabilize. Then move - but in a vastly different direction. President-elect Joe Biden is pledging a new path for the nation after Donald Trump's four years in office. That starts wi...
Jan 20, 2021
DC on lockdown and on edge before Biden's inauguration
WASHINGTON - The inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden will take place in a Washington on edge, after the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol unleashed a wave of fear and unmatched security concerns. ...
Jan 20, 2021
Analysis: For Biden, chance to turn crisis into opportunity
WASHINGTON - In the 11 weeks since Election Day, the collision of crises confronting President-elect Joe Biden have gone from staggering to almost unimaginable. More than 170,000 Americans have died f...
Jan 20, 2021
Vice-President Harris: A new chapter opens in US politics
WASHINGTON - For more than two centuries, the top ranks of American power have been dominated by men - almost all of them white. That ends on Wednesday. Kamala Harris will become the first female vice...
Jan 20, 2021
An inauguration unlike any other amid a pandemic, unrest
WASHINGTON - Inauguration Day for President-elect Joe Biden will look unlike anything the nation has seen before as the scars of COVID-19 and the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol turn the West ...
Jan 20, 2021
Businesses reopen as searchers dig in Indonesia quake rubble
MAMUJU, Indonesia - Grocery stores, gas stations and other shops were reopening Wednesday in a quake-hit Indonesian city where debris still covered streets and searchers continued to dig in the rubble...
Jan 20, 2021
Facing crush of crises, Biden will take helm as president
WASHINGTON - Joe Biden swears the oath of office at noon Wednesday to become the 46th president of the United States, taking the helm of a deeply divided nation and inheriting a confluence of crises a...
Jan 20, 2021
Indonesian leader promises compensation for plane crash
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia's leader on Wednesday assured relatives of 62 people killed in a Sriwijaya Air plane crash that they will be compensated. President Joko Widodo visited the command centr...
Jan 20, 2021
India starts supplying COVID-19 shots to neighbouring nations
NEW DELHI - India began supplying coronavirus vaccines to its neighbouring countries on Wednesday, as the world's largest vaccine making nation strikes a balance between maintaining enough doses to in...
Jan 20, 2021
