A crowd of protesters tried to topple the statue of a former US president near the White House Monday evening as police responded with pepper spray to break u
2020-06-24US President Donald Trump will prolong a ban on US employment permits to year-end and broaden it to include H-1B visas used widely in the tech industry, the W
2020-06-24Preliminary 7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes Mexico: reports
Some Chinese living in India say its unsafe for them to go out in public and have closed their shops amid a boycott that has included anti-China graffiti and t
2020-06-24Pakistan on Monday urged the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to pressure India over the long-smoldering dispute on India-occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
2020-06-24Rape conviction rates in Sweden have risen 75 percent since 2017 following a major change in the law, spurring calls on Monday for other countries to revamp
2020-06-24French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday launched a furious attack on Turkey's conduct in Libya, accusing the NATO member of playing a "dangerous game" that
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A powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake rocked Mexico City and many southern and central parts of the country around mid-morning on Tuesday.
The quake hit at 10
The assassination of Julius Caesar in 44BC triggered a nearly two-decade power struggle that led to the fall of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman
2020-06-24Online gossip has been spreading that some Chinese manufacturers have been caught selling hats, tees, and banners with anti-China slogans such as "Boycott China
2020-06-23A Chinese expert said that India is carrying out an Indian-version territorial revisionist policy after four militants were killed by Indian security forces in
2020-06-23
The United States "has hamstrung itself" by "piecemeal, politicized approach" in handling the COVID-19 pandemic, US media reported Monday, citing public heat
The US economy is expected to grow more slowly than people had hoped months ago as the country cannot stop the community spread of COVID-19, a senior US Feder
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US COVID-19 deaths surpassed 120,000 on Monday with nearly 2.3 million infections, while new cases continue to increase across the country over three months
Two more campaign staffers who attended President Donald Trump's rally in Tulsa, US state Oklahoma, on Saturday have tested positive for the coronavirus, th
The statue of Theodore Roosevelt atop a horse at the entrance to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City will be removed, due to "the racial
New York City entered phase two of reopening on Monday, marking a major milestone of the city's fight against COVID-19.
The transitioning is "a giant step
The Indonesian police have arrested four people believed to be poachers of critically endangered Sumatran tigers.
The police have also been hunting another ma
A team of Chinese medical experts sent by the Chinese government concluded its COVID-19 combating mission in Bangladesh on Monday.
A farewell ceremony was
The number of COVID-19 deaths in the United States topped 120,000 on Monday, reaching 120,036 as of 12:04 p.m. (1604 GMT), according to the Center for Systems S
2020-06-23Wirecard said on Monday that 1.9 billion euros ($2.1 billion) missing from its accounts was likely never there and it was looking at the sale or closure of p
2020-06-23The US and Russia met Monday in Vienna for talks on their last major nuclear weapons agreement against a backdrop of growing tensions and differences over whe
2020-06-23The United Nations (UN) on Sunday charged that the Taliban and Afghan security forces had carried out "deliberate" attacks against healthcare workers and faci
2020-06-23
Among people with Medicare, African Americans were nearly four times more likely than white Americans to be hospitalized with COVID-19, according to federal
Chinese internet users congratulated Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic as his party has won a landslide victory in parliamentary election on Sunday, with many
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