Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the U.S. House Financial Services Committee during An Examination of Facebook and Its Impact on the Financial Serv

A freight train derailed and caught fire on a bridge in Arizona, the US on Wednesday, but there were no reports of injuries in what a witness described as a "sc

A US military helicopter lands on Bagram Air Base 60 kilometers from Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec. 11, 2003. (Xinhua Photo/Wang Lei)The US military on Wednesday unve

Tourists are seen outside New York Stock Exchange in New York, the United States, July 29, 2020. U.S. COVID-19 deaths have surpassed the 150,000 mark to reach 1

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Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the US House of Representatives, announced a mandatory mask policy on Wednesday that requires all members and staff to wear

People wearing masks pass by a store closing soon in Santa Monica, California, on Tuesday, amid the coronavirus pandemic. Photo: AFPDemocrats and Republicans in

A marble lion is seen with a face mask in front of the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue in New York, the US, July 8, 2020. (Xinhua/Wang Ying)
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Tiger populations in five countries are making a comeback but the endangered species still faces major threats such as poaching, conservation group WWF and the

An employee holds a sheet of newly-launched special stamps honoring the COVID-19 frontliners at the Philippine Postal Corporation in Manila, the Philippines on

A Singaporean casts a vote at a polling station for the country's general election in Singapore on July 10, 2020.(Xinhua)A grandson of Singapore's founding lead

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One person has died and at least 17 others have been injured in an explosion Thursday morning at a restaurant in Koriyama City in Fukushima Prefectur

Japan will from next week lift a ban on the reentry of some foreign residents, imposed to limit the spread of coronavirus, the foreign ministry has announced on

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong speaks during a live address to the nation in Singapore, June 23, 2020. (Ministry of Communications and Information of

France's President Emmanuel Macron (C) sits in a Dassault Aviation Rafale fighter jet as Dassault Aviation's CEO Eric Trappier (R) looks on during the Internati

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

File photo of the United Nations headquarters in New York United Nations peacekeeping force UNIFIL called for "maximum restraint" after clashes Monday on the bo

NASA on Monday gave its latest Mars rover Perseverance the all clear to launch later this week on a mission to seek out signs of ancient microbial life.

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Dozens of migrants escaped quarantine in Sicily Monday, a day after nearly 200 others fled a separate holding facility as Italy prepared a navy ship to house ar

Hundreds were evacuated after a fire broke out Monday at a pre-trial detention center for women in Moscow, Russian news agencies reported.

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Brazilian firm JBS, the world's biggest meat processing company, was again accused Monday of "laundering" cattle from ranches blacklisted for destroying the Ama

File photoBelarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Tuesday he had had the coronavirus without any symptoms and had already recovered from it, the state

US National Security Advisor Robert C. O'Brien File photo: XinhuaUS President Donald Trump's national Security Advisor tested positive for COVID-19 Monday, as t

The Chotanagpur Plateau in eastern India, crisscrossed with streams, once was lush green even in winter.

Migrant workers return to their hometowns in Jharkhand

This undated picture released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Monday shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (center) visiting the

Volunteers prepare food packages for people in need in Barcelona, Spain, June 25, 2020. (City Hall of Barcelona/Handout via Xinhua)
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