File photo taken on Oct. 8, 2012 shows Nord Stream pipeline equipments before the opening ceremony of the North Stream second gas link in Portovaya bay, some 60

Pedestrians walk through central Glasgow as Britain enters a national lockdown in London on Tuesday. Scotland is to impose a nationwide coronavirus lockdown for

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte speaks at a press conference in Rome, Italy, on Dec. 30, 2020. Italy plans to vaccinate 10 to 15 million of its roughly 60

Students pose for a photo at a primary school in Suva, Fiji, Jan. 19, 2021. (Xinhua/Zhang Yongxing)
Despite the impacts of COVID-19 and the tropical cyclone Ya

German Chancellor Angela Merkel puts on her face mask due to the coronavirus pandemic during her visit to Germany’s most populated federal state, North Rhine-W

Yuichiro welled up as he collected a food parcel at a Tokyo outreach event offering help to the growing number of Japanese pushed into poverty by the coronaviru

A makeshift clinic for coronavirus tests is seen near the Seoul Express Bus Terminal in Seocho-gu of Seoul, South Korea, Dec. 14, 2020. (NEWSIS/Handout via Xinh

France's Muslim federations agreed Sunday on a "charter of principles" requested by President Emmanuel Macron in his bid to eradicate sectarianism and extremism

A resurgence in the coronavirus pandemic and a bumpy start to vaccination drives are likely to weigh on the minds of European Central Bank (ECB) governors when

A staff member checks the packaging quality of COVID-19 inactivated vaccine products at a packaging plant of the Beijing Biological Products Institute Co., Ltd.

2020 Australian Open winner Novak Djokovic Photo: VCG

Dozens of tennis stars stuck in hotel quarantine ahead of the Australian Open were told Monday they wou

A person watches the Merapi volcano on Indonesia’s Java island spew hot lava as its activity continued in Pakem, Indonesia, on Sunday. Merapi is one of the mos

Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga pledged on Monday to tackle surging coronavirus cases and restore normal life "as soon as possible" as polls showed plungi

The de facto chief of South Korea's Samsung business empire was convicted on Monday over a huge corruption scandal and jailed for two and a half years, in a rul

Members of Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Sudan’s controversial counter-insurgency unit, show on Sunday in Khartoum sacks of hashish that were captured in the st

Former French prime minister Edouard Balladur went on trial Tuesday on charges that he used kickbacks from arms deals in the 1990s to fund a presidential bid, a

China US Photo: VCG
At the very last moment of the Trump administration, officials like Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and some diplomats in his Department of S

UN aid chief Mark Lowcock will on Thursday urge Washington to reverse a plan to designate Yemen's Houthis a foreign terrorist organization, warning the move wou

Park Geun-hye File photo:VCG

South Korea's top court upheld a 20-year prison sentence for disgraced former president Park Geun-hye on Thursday, in the final r

File photo of a poultry farm.Photo:Xinhua

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative CDU party picked her ally Armin Laschet as its next leader on Saturday, in a vote for "continuity" as Europe's bi

An illustration shows vials of a COVID-19 vaccine and syringes with the logos of US pharmaceutical company Pfizer and German partner BioNTech. Photo: AFP

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A medical worker prepares to perform a COVID-19 test in Ankara, Turkey, Jan. 16, 2021. Turkey on Saturday reported 7,550 new COVID-19 cases, including 902 sympt

Police officers check a car at a checkpoint during a nationwide curfew in Paris, France, Jan. 16, 2021. Starting from Saturday, the country's 67 million inhabit

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has approved placing more parts of the country into the highest level of restrictions, known as tier 4, on December 19. Pho