The European Union's executive will push for a 10-year phaseout of the protection for fossil fuels under an international energy treaty, following calls from so

Staff members transfer the first batch of China's Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine purchased by Hungary at the Liszt Ferenc International Airport in Budapest, Hungary

Sinopharm's COVID-19 vaccine. Photo: VCG

As Hungary joined Serbia in spearheading mass inoculation with China's Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine in Europe, other Eu

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa speaks during an interview in the State House in Harare, Zimbabwe, Feb. 12, 2021. President Mnangagwa on Friday expresse

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A third new case of Ebola has been confirmed in North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a local health official said Friday.

Medical workers go about their business at a COVID-19 test point in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Feb. 1, 2021.Photo:Xinhua
The number of COVID-19 related deat

A man shows the commemorative coins at a coin workshop in Cairo, Egypt, on Feb. 10, 2021. (Photo: Xinhua)

Egypt has started issuing 15 million commemorative c

After a sexism row sparked by Tokyo Olympics chief's saying women talked too much at meetings, Japan's ruling party wants women at key meetings - but only if th

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa (C) plants a tree with students at a school in Kandy, Sri Lanka on Feb. 15, 2021. (President Media Division/Handout via

Members of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) conduct a rescue operation at the site of a bus accident near Patna village in Sidhi district, about 493 km e

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Minister for Health Greg Hunt said about 80,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine would arrive in Australia "before the end of the week, i

On 15 February 2021, His Excellency Mr Chen Hai, Chinese Ambassador to Myanmar was interviewed by Voice, Eleven, 7Day, Myanmar Times and Frontier on the current

A medical worker holds a dose of China's COVID-19 vaccine in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Feb. 10, 2021. (Photo by Sovannara/Xinhua)
Cambodia officially approved the e

Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi (L) and Commander-in-Chief of Defense Services Min Aung Hlaing File photo: AFP

The United States on Thursday announ

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An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 struck off Japan's Fukushima Prefecture on Saturday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA).

European Council President Charles Michel speaks during a press conference after the Visegrad Group (V4) summit in Krakow, Poland, on Feb. 17, 2021. The prime m

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has recommended adding thousands of additional security forces to the MINUSCA peacekeeping mission in the Central African

As dawn breaks in central Kenya, a helicopter lifts off in a race to find roosting locusts before the sun warms their bodies and sends them on a ravenous flight

A closed store is seen in Halkida, a seaside town nearly 80 kilometers northeast of Athens, Greece, on Feb. 6, 2021. (Photo: Xinhua)
Two women chat in Halkida,

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) listens to a statement by the Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis after their meeting in the Prime Minist

Visitors walk between cells at the former Sachsenhausen concentration camp site of the Sachsenhausen memorial in Oranienburg, Germany, Aug. 27, 2020. The Sachse

Protesters demonstrate against the death of George Floyd outside the 3rd Precinct Police Precinct on May 26, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the US. Photo: AFPAn inv

UN Security Council holds a meeting on the Iraq issue at the UN headquarters in New York, the United States, March 3, 2020.(Photo: Xinhua)

United Nations Secu

Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga gestures after delivering his policy speech at the lower house of parliament in Tokyo on Monday. Suga pledged to bring the

Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi (L) and Commander-in-Chief of Defense Services Min Aung Hlaing File photo: AFPProtesters across Myanmar defied a new