Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Midterm Elections: Key contests hangs in the balance as states count votes

Midterm Elections: Key contests hangs in the balance as states count votes

Arizona and Nevada are still counting hundreds of thousands of unprocessed ballots. The races to determine control of the Senate in Arizona and Nevada have not yet been declared. The makeup of the House will also depend on a number of uncalled congressional elections. As both states race to process hundreds of thousands of unprocessed … Read more

 White House gets ready to take on states over an abortion medication

 White House

President Joe Biden’s administration signaled it will try to stop states from outlawing a drug used for medical abortion One of the medications used for medication abortions, mifepristone, was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA),  On a 5-4 vote, the conservative-majority Supreme Court overruled Roe on Friday, declaring that the U.S. Constitution … Read more

GCC states’ inflation is predicted at 2.1% in 2021

GCC states

Consumer prices in the Gulf Cooperation Council states are projected to have risen 2.1 per cent in 2021, compared with 1.2 per cent in 2020, Arab News quoted a report by the GCC Statistical Centre revealed. Looking forward, inflation rate forecasts for 2022 and 2023 are predicted at 1.8 per cent and 2.6 per cent, … Read more

US hospitals overwhelmed by Covid-19 surge, more vaccinations needed

NEW YORK: The number of Covid-19 pandemic related hospitalisations in the United States reached above 100,000 last week for the second time, overwhelming caregivers capacity in several states and spawning an urgency to vaccinate more of the eligible. “Keeping ahead of demand is harder now than during earlier surges,” reported The Washington Post on Sunday … Read more