A medic performs COVID-19 testing at a Chinese-built lab in Baghdad, Iraq on July 29, 2020. (Xinhua)
It is a race against time. Medics are shuffling piles of sw

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (3rd R) attends the opening ceremony of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) Excellence

Photo taken on Aug. 6, 2020 shows a view of Port of Tripoli, Lebanon. Lebanon's Port of Tripoli said Thursday that it is ready to temporarily replace the Port o

Tourists take photos of life-sized sculptures of characters from the Transformers fi lm franchise made of scrap metal parts at the Ban Hun Lek (House of Steel R

Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (right) takes part in the ceremony of the 75th anniversary of the atomic bomb attack at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japa

Moin ul Haque, Ambassador of Pakistan to China Photo: Courtesy of the Embassy of Pakistan to ChinaPakistan's Ambassador to China urged necessary actions be take

A supporter of a pro-Brexit group walks down Whitehall in London, Britain, on Jan. 31, 2020. (Photo by Stephen Chung/Xinhua)
British finance minister Rishi Suna

A mother helps her daughter put on a face mask in Ankara, Turkey, on Aug. 6, 2020. Turkey reported 1,153 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, raising the total confi

A man rides a bicycle past the city hall lit up in the colors of the Lebanese national flag in solidarity in the coastal city of Tel Aviv, Israel on Wednesday,

Afghan army soldiers take part in a military operation against Taliban militants in Kunduz Province, Afghanistan, Dec. 25, 2019. Afghan government forces storme

Medical workers transport a patient from an ambulance to George Washington University Hospital in Washington D.C., the United States, May 13, 2020. (Photo by Ti

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The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced on Thursday the start of a randomized, controlled clinical trial evaluating the safety and e

A boat speeds on the Jurura river in the Brazilian Amazon forest on March 15. Photo: AFP

The indigenous peoples of the Amazon have already seen their homelands

Trump Photo:XinhuaUS President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to ban US firms from making transactions with TikTok's parent company ByteDanc

A marble lion is seen with a face mask in front of the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue in New York, the United States, July 8, 2020. Photo: Xinhua
U.S.

US President Donald Trump wears a mask as he tours a lab where they are making components for a potential vaccine at the Bioprocess Innovation Center at Fujifil

Staff conduct disinfection at Congonhas Airport in Sao Paulo, Brazil, June 16, 2020. (Xinhua/Rahel Patrasso)
Brazil on Thursday recorded 1,237 new deaths from

A health worker collects swab samples from a resident for COVID-19 tests in Delhi, India, Aug. 4, 2020. (Photo by Partha Sarkar/Xinhua)
India's COVID-19 tally

A worker sprays insecticide outside a student dormitory to fight against dengue fever in Singapore, on July 13, 2020. Photo:Xinhua

Singapore is monitoring a r

Photo taken on Aug. 6, 2020 shows a view of Port of Tripoli, Lebanon. Lebanon's Port of Tripoli said Thursday that it is ready to temporarily replace the Port o

A man carries a ballot box in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Aug. 5, 2020. Sri Lanka's Elections Chief Mahinda Deshapriya on Wednesday said that the parliamentary election

The spokesperson of China's Permanent Mission to the United Nations said Wednesday that the Chinese ambassador has called on parties concerned to exercise restr

A soldier stands guard at a street on the one-year anniversary of the restive region being stripped of its autonomy in Srinagar of India-controlled Kashmir on W

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The number of COVID-19 cases in the United States surpassed 4.8 million on Wednesday, reaching 4,802,275 as of 3:34 p.m. local time (1934 GMT), a

Soldiers march during the military parade marking the 75th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War on Red Square in Moscow, Russia, June 24, 2020.