President Donald Trump has plenty of detractors, but for spokeswoman Sarah Sanders, he has support from above. “I think God calls all of us to fill different roles at different times and I think that he wanted Donald Trump to become president,” Sanders said in an interview to be aired by the Christian Broadcasting Network. Trump has strong backing from the politically influential US evangelical movement

US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has announced visa restrictions on some Chinese officials under the Reciprocal Access to Tibet Act, 2018. Visa curbs have been slapped on the Chinese govt and Communist Party officials "determined to be involved in the formulation and execution of policies related to access for foreigners to Tibet". Pompeo stated that access to Tibet is vital to regional stability given China's human rights abuses in the region. He added that the US remains committed "supporting meaningful autonomy" for Tibetans.

India on Tuesday raised with the US its decision to withdraw US visas from foreign students if their universities switch to online-only classes.&nbsp;The issue was raised by Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan&nbsp;Shringla&nbsp;during an online meeting with US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale.&nbsp;Sources told PTI that the US side took note of it and said they will keep the best interests of the Indian students in mind and would try and mitigate the impact of the&nbsp;decision.It&nbsp;also conveyed to India that detailed guidelines for implementation of the decision are yet to come out.&nbsp;

India and the US on Tuesday deliberated on a host of bilateral, regional and global issues during an online meeting between Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan&nbsp;Shringla&nbsp;and US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale.&nbsp;The Ministry of External Affairs said the two sides also reaffirmed their commitment to work towards ensuring a free, open, peaceful and prosperous Indo-Pacific.&nbsp;The talks were held under the India-US Foreign Office Consultations. It is not immediately known whether the border row between India and China figured in the talks.&nbsp;The&nbsp;MEA said in a statement&nbsp;that&nbsp;Shringla&nbsp;and Hale exchanged views on a number of regional and global issues of shared interest.&nbsp;India and the US have been expanding cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region where China has been trying to expand its military and economic clout.&nbsp;

Brazil's President Jair&nbsp;Bolsonaro&nbsp;has tested positive for novel coronavirus. The news was confirmed by the President himself while speaking to the reporters. Bolsonaro&nbsp;has been downplaying the severity of the pandemic since the beginning and has also criticised local administrations for imposing restrictions in their area.&nbsp;The president has often appeared in public to shake hands with supporters and mingle with crowds, often without masks.&nbsp;He has said that his history as an athlete would protect him from the virus, and that it would be nothing more than a &ldquo;little flu&rdquo; if he contracted it. Brazil is the second worst-affected country in the world with over 16.2 lakh&nbsp;cases and more than 65,000 deaths.&nbsp;

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling Liberal Democratic Party has adopted a resolution urging the government cancel a visit to Japan by Chinese President Xi Jinping following the implementation of a new national security law for Hong Kong.&nbsp;Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, the top spokesman for Abe's government, said the timing was not appropriate to arrange details of Xi's visit and nothing has been decided. The new law makes secessionist, subversive, or terrorist activities illegal, as well as foreign intervention in the city's internal affairs.
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A top White Official has said that the&nbsp;United States&nbsp;military will stand strong with India in connection with the border dispute between India and&nbsp;China.&nbsp;White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows told Fox News that US&nbsp;was not going to stand by and let China or anyone else take the reins in terms of being the most powerful, dominant force, whether it&rsquo;s in that region or over in the country.&nbsp;Meadows made the remarks while responding to the border tensions between the two countries.&nbsp;Meadows&rsquo; statement comes three days after&nbsp;two US aircraft carriers were conducting exercises in the disputed South China Sea. China has also carried out military drills that have been criticised by the Pentagon and neighbouring states.&nbsp;

The United Nations has warned that treating coronavirus&nbsp;symptoms and not the environmental cause&nbsp;is setting us up for more future pandemics in a new report.&nbsp;From Ebola to MERS&nbsp;and now Covid-19, diseases caused by&nbsp;viruses that have jumped from animal hosts into the human population are on the rise. Governments must take measures to prevent zoonotic diseases that kill almost 2 million people every year. The report calls for greater scientific enquiry into zoonotic diseases, promoting sustainable land management practices and improving biosecurity&nbsp;and control, among other measures. The authors propose a One Health approach that unites&nbsp;public health, veterinary and environmental experts.&nbsp;

Saudi Arabia has issued guidelines for the 1,000 pilgrims who will be allowed to perform the hajj pilgrimage in Mecca later this month. The pilgrims will be only be able to drink holy water from the Zamzam well in Mecca that is packaged in plastic bottles, and pebbles for casting away evil that are usually picked up by pilgrims along hajj routes will be sterilised and bagged ahead of time. Pilgrims will also have to bring their own prayer rugs. The guidelines were announced on Monday as Saudi authorities prepare to carry out a very limited hajj, which for the first time, will not include pilgrims from outside the country. The kingdom said that 70%of pilgrims allowed to participate this year will be from among foreign residents of Saudi Arabia, 30% would be Saudi citizens. The new guidelines also mandate that foreign residents in Saudi Arabia who want to participate in this year's pilgrimage should be between the ages of 20 and 50, and that have not performed the hajj before. The pilgrims will have to quarantine before and after the hajj, and they will be tested for the coronavirus.

Fox News is facing flak on social media for editing out Donald Trump from a photo with Ghislane Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein during a broadcast. On Sunday evening, Fox News ran a segment about Ghislaine Maxwell, who was charged last week with the sex trafficking of children in the 1990s. The clip featured a photo of Jeffrey Epstein and Maxwell but the image of President Trump was cropped out. After massive furore online, Fox News apologized for cropping Trump out. A spokesperson for the network said the editing was done by mistake and they regret the error.

US Federal immigration authorities on Monday said international students will be forced to leave the US or transfer to another college if their schools offer classes entirely online this fall. The move has left many high and dry amid a global pandemic with travel bans in several countries.&nbsp;US Immigration and Custom Enforcement said the State Department "will not issue visas to students enrolled in schools or programmes that are fully online for the fall semester nor will US Customs and Border Protection permit these students to enter the United States. Most US colleges and universities have not yet announced their plans for the fall semester.&nbsp;Senator Elizabeth Warren took strong notice of the decision and said the move 'hurts students'. She called it 'xenophobic'. Bernie Sanders tweeted, the cruelty of this White House knows no bounds. Foreign students are being threatened with a choice: risk your life going to class in-person or get deported. We must stand up to Trump's bigotry.

Australian authorities will reimpose strict lockdown for six weeks in metropolitan Melbourne and the Mitchell Shire in a bid to slow a rapid spread of coronavirus. Premier Daniel Andrews announced the stay-at-home orders would be reimposed from Wednesday midnight. Melbourne reported close to 200 coronavirus cases on Tuesday. Australia has also closed borders between Victoria and New South Wales for the first time in 100 years to curb the rising infections.

Brazil&rsquo;s President Jair Bolsonaro has undergone another test for Covid-19 after showing symptoms of the virus. Bolsonaro had a light fever and is taking hydroxychloroquine, a medication he has been touting to combat the coronavirus, according to reports. The presidential office confirmed Bolsonaro was tested on Monday night at a Brasilia hospital and that the result was awaited. The president is currently in good health condition, according to a statement. Since the beginning of the pandemic, Bolsonaro has mocked social distancing and wearing masks, and has been regularly seen mingling with people. Brazil is number 2 globally in terms of Covid deaths and cases just behind the US.

TikTok will exit the Hong Kong market within days, news agency Reuters reported quoting a company spokesman. The short video app will join other technology companies, including Facebook, that have suspended processing government requests for user data in the region. The short form video app owned by China-based ByteDance has made the decision to exit the region following China&rsquo;s establishment of a sweeping new national security law for the semi-autonomous city.

Days after India slapped a ban on 59 Chinese apps, including hugely popular TikTok, the US is likely to follow suit. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said that the United States is &ldquo;certainly looking at&rdquo; banning Chinese social media apps, including TikTok. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t want to get out in front of the President, but it&rsquo;s something we&rsquo;re looking at,&rdquo; Pompeo said in an interview with Fox News.

The United States has said that it would not allow foreign students to remain in the country if all of their classes are moved online in the fall because of the coronavirus crisis. US Immigration and Custom Enforcement said the State Department "will not issue visas to students enrolled in schools or programmes that are fully online for the fall semester nor will US Customs and Border Protection permit these students to enter the United States. Most US colleges and universities have not yet announced their plans for the fall semester.
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Chinese police arrested an outspoken critic of President Xi Jinping on Monday morning,&nbsp;Bloomberg reported. A friend of&nbsp;Xu&nbsp;Zhangrun,&nbsp;who is a&nbsp;law professor at Tsinghua University,&nbsp;told the media outlet&nbsp;that he was&nbsp;taken away by police from his house at a Beijing suburb. The professor&rsquo;s friend said&nbsp;Xu&rsquo;s arrest&nbsp;was linked to a book he published in New York last month. The book is&nbsp;a collection of ten political essays with scathing criticisms of Xi and the Communist Party&rsquo;s rule.&nbsp;Chinese Foreign Ministry said they had no information about the arrest when asked during a regular briefing on Monday in Beijing.&nbsp;The move comes as Xi administration&nbsp;takes steps to crack down on potential threats to the Communist Party stemming from the economic fallout of the pandemic, the report said.&nbsp;&nbsp;

The commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration on Sunday declined to defend President Donald Trump's unfounded claim that 99% of coronavirus cases are 'totally harmless'. Dr Stephen Hahn also refused to predict when a vaccine will be available, adding that it depends on data and science. During his remarks Saturday at the White House Independence Day event, Trump claimed without evidence that 99% of coronavirus cases are totally harmless and a vaccine will be available soon. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 35% of cases are asymptomatic, but even people with mild or no symptoms can spread the virus to others.

National Security Advisor&nbsp;Ajit&nbsp;Doval&nbsp;held talks with Chinese Foreign Minister and State Councilor Wang Yi over video call, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Monday.&nbsp; According to a report in the Hindustan Times the video call took place on Sunday&nbsp;right before the People&rsquo;s Liberation Army were reported to have taken the&nbsp;first few steps to move back&nbsp;from the standoff points in the&nbsp;Galwan&nbsp;area. The MEA in a statement said&nbsp;the&nbsp;duo had a frank and in-depth exchange of views on the recent developments in the Western Sector of the India-China border areas.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Hindustan Times report said talks were&nbsp;focused on what is being described as&nbsp;&lsquo;full and enduring restoration of peace and&nbsp;tranquillity&rsquo;&nbsp;along the Line of Actual Control. The two sides also spoke about working together to avoid such incidents in future,&nbsp;the report quoted&nbsp;a top government official saying.&nbsp;

A new Kuwaiti law aimed at reducing the number of foreign workers in the country threatens the jobs of lakh of Indians in the gulf nation. The bill proposes that the number of Indians, who form the largest expatriate community in Kuwait, be reduced to 15% of the country&rsquo;s 48 lakh population. There are around 14 lakh Indians in Kuwait and 15% quota would mean their presence reducing to around 6.5-7 lakh. Kuwait&rsquo;s PM Sheikh Sabah Al Khalid Al Sabah has proposed reduction in the number of expats from 70% to 30% of the total population.

The border between Australia&rsquo;s two most populous states -- Victoria and New South Wales -- will close from Tuesday for an indefinite period following an outbreak of the coronavirus in Victoria. The decision marks the first time the border with neighbouring New South Wales has been shut in 100 years - officials last blocked movement between the two states in 1919 during the Spanish flu pandemic.

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