A consumer pushes a shopping cart at the parking lot of a Costco Warehouse in Los Angeles, the United States, on Nov. 20, 2020. (Xinhua)

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Republicans in the US House of Representatives on Thursday blocked an attempt from House Democrats to pass 2,000-US-dollar direct payments

Police in Columbus, Ohio, said they relieved an officer of duty on Tuesday after he fatally shot an unarmed black man, the city's second law enforcement shootin

More than 1 million Americans have received the first dose of their COVID-19 vaccines, a milestone in the biggest immunization drive in US history that came eve

Pedestrians wearing face masks are seen in a street in the Brooklyn borough of New York, the United States, on April 3, 2020. (Photo by Michael Nagle/Xinhua)
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US President Donald Trump issued new pardons Wednesday for allies including the father of his son-in-law Jared Kushner and two confidants caught up in the probe

File photo taken on Sept. 3, 2020 shows US President Donald Trump participating in a campaign rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, the United States. (Xinhua/Liu Jie

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The timing of the media campaign over the alleged hacking is triggering justified concerns, as well as the lack of any evidence in the public domain t

Migrant workers from different Indian states gather and wait to board buses for their destinations during the coronavirus lockdown in Bangalore, India, May 23,

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All major political parties opposed to the India's main ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced their s

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US President Donald Trump on Wednesday vetoed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, despite the bill's passage in

Gulf Arab foreign ministers were expected to hold a virtual meeting hosted by Bahrain on Sunday ahead of an annual summit to discuss steps toward ending a diplo

A Syrian refugee camp in northern Lebanon was set on fire Saturday night following a fight between members of the camp and a local Lebanese family, state media

Iran's foreign minister on Thursday dismissed US President Donald Trump's allegations that Iran was behind the recent rocket attack on the US Embassy in Baghdad

Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe may be summoned to parliament for questioning by lawmakers amid a row over a possible violation of election funding la

Israel will hold a snap election in March after parliament failed on Tuesday to meet a deadline to pass a budget, triggering a ballot presenting new challenges

Rosemary DiCarlo (front), United Nations undersecretary-general for political and peacebuilding affairs, addresses a Security Council meeting on the situation i

A patient is wheeled out from an ambulance to the hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Dec. 27, 2020. Canada's COVID-19 cases surpassed 550,000, with the total

Healthcare workers roll a patient into the emergency room at Maimonides Medical Center during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Brooklyn borough of New York, United

The picture shows Servants of the Imam Reza Shrine carrying the coffin of Iran’s assassinated top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh during his funeral proce

People line up outside a food pantry in Brooklyn, New York, US, on November 12, 2020. Photo: XinhuaUS President Donald Trump on Sunday signed the newly approved

Police and federal agents in Nashville sought clues on Saturday to determine how and why a motor home was blown to pieces in an apparent bombing on Christmas Da

Niger hopes to make history on Sunday when elections set it on course for its first-ever peaceful transition of power despite a raging Islamist insurgency and e

Bangladesh and Bhutan finalised the terms and conditions recently for signing a preferential trade agreement (PTA) to increase bilateral trade.

Under PTAs some

Deep in Tana River County, in southeastern Kenya, a group of pupils formed a circle around their teacher, jotting down notes as they listened to a Swahili dicti