Logos of Twitter and Facebook. Photo: IC

The official Twitter accounts of Apple, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and others were hijacked on Wednesday by scammers tryin

Yemeni workers collect rubbish piled up on the streets as garbage trucks hardly run due to an acute shortage of fuel in the capital Sanaa, on Monday. A fuel sho

A picture shows a sculpture of Bristol resident Jen Reid with an arm raised in a Black Power salute in Bristol, southwest England on Wednesday. Photo: AFP

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As the US Secretary of State's attacks on China escalate, some of US politicians are joining Mike Pompeo to push China and the US to the brink of a

Escalating pressure on Germany, US President Donald Trump's administration opened the way Wednesday for tough sanctions as the ally moves forward with the Nord

People line up to enter a department store in Brooklyn Borough of New York, the United States, on July 16, 2020. Confirmed COVID-19 cases topped 3.5 million on

The marble lion "Fortitude" is seen with a face mask in front of the New York Pubulic Library on the Fifth Avenue in New York, the United States, July 8, 2020.

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The US government rescinded its controversial decision to revoke foreign student visas whose courses move online due

A former white supremacist convicted of the 1996 murders of a family of three was put to death by lethal injection on Tuesday in the first federal execution in

Democratic presidential candidate former vice president Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event on Tuesday at Alexis I. Dupont High School in Wilmington, Delaw

Illustration of a view over the rim of a small crater, about one kilometer across on Mars Illustration: AFP
The United Arab Emirates said on Wednesday it would

Three Russian and several Turkish soldiers were wounded Tuesday in Syria's restive Idlib province when a joint military patrol was hit by an improvised explosiv

A view of the Nile River and the Cairo city is seen from the Cairo Tower in Cairo, Egypt, Nov. 24, 2019. (Xinhua/Wu Huiwo)

Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan have faile

US President Donald Trump and Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed to work "more closely" on a solution to the Libya conflict during a phone call on Tuesd

An ambulance sits outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on March 23, 2020. Photo: AFP
A Chinese expert said that a poll co-conducted by The Hill and HarrisX

A staff waters plants during the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP25 in Madrid, Spain, December 12, 2019.Photo: Xinhua
US oil and gas drilling along

The joint United Nations and African Union mission in Darfur (UNAMID) condemned on Tuesday "violent incidents" in North Darfur state which left nine dead and 20

Norwegian police said Wednesday they had arrested one person after multiple women were stabbed, one of whom reportedly succumbed to her wounds, in the city of S

Deadly border clashes between arch-foes Armenia and Azerbaijan entered a second day on Monday, as the EU, US and regional power broker Moscow urged restraint.

A US CH-53 helicopter (top) on Monday lifts a UH-1 helicopter that made an emergency landing two days earlier on a beach in Uruma, in Japan's Okinawa Prefecture

Singapore plunged into recession in the second quarter as the economy contracted more than 40 percent, preliminary data showed Tuesday, with the trade-dependent

Some NGOs in South Asia and China are standing up against politicization and stigmatization of the COVID-19 pandemic and are calling for a joint effort in the v

A worker moves grain at a silo in Arbil, capital of the northern Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region, on July 5. Photos: AFP
Unlike in years past, Iraqi farmer Ahm

"Welcome back" banners are seen at an entrance to the National Gallery in London, Britain on July 4.Photo: Xinhua

Britain is home to at least 100,000 modern s

Children play at a square in Buenos Aries, Argentina, on July 12, 2020. (Photo by Martin Zabala/Xinhua)
Argentina is preparing for the return of face-to-face cl