Photo taken on July 29, 2020 shows the construction site of the China-Laos Railway in northern Laos. (Photo by Pan Longzhu/Xinhua)

With the cast of the last c

Health workers perform COVID-19 tests at a drive-through testing center at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia on Sunday. Sydney was isolated from the rest of Aust

People wait to receive COVID-19 tests in Samut Sakhon province, Thailand, on Dec. 22, 2020. (Xinhua/Rachen Sageamsak)

COVID-19 cases continued to rise in Thai

Students perform Chinese singing and dancing during the opening ceremony of China Day cultural carnival in Bandar Seri Begawan, capital of Brunei, on Dec. 26, 2

Organizers of the coronavirus-postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games said Wednesday they have picked a new creative director to redesign "simpler and more restraine

A man wearing a face mask walks past mannequins with masks on in a shopping window in London, Britain, on Dec. 21, 2020. (Xinhua/Han Yan)

Another 34,693 peopl

UK, EU have reached post-Brexit trade deal, according to BBC

EU's Von der Leyen, Chief negotiator Barnier to announce outcome of trade talks with UK soon.

Turkish journalist Can Dundar was sentenced in absentia to 27 years and six months in prison for espionage and aiding an armed terrorist organization, his lawye

A supporter of a pro-Brexit group walks down Whitehall in London, Britain, on Jan. 31, 2020. (Photo/Xinhua)Britain and the European Union were expected to annou

Thousands of truckers endured Christmas Eve stranded near a major British port, ensnared in the chaos unleashed by a new coronavirus strain, as Western nations

A man wearing a face mask walks in a shopping mall in London, Britain, on Nov. 23, 2020. (Photo by Tim Ireland/Xinhua)
British Health Secretary Matt Hancock on

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Earlier, the Colombian Foreign Ministry said that two Russian diplomats had to leave Colombia due to non-compliance with the Vienna Conventio

Relatives of Boeing Co 737 MAX crash victims on Tuesday urged the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) to delay approving the aircraft's return to servi

Europe on Wednesday began lifting travel bans on Britain put in place to contain a new fast-spreading COVID-19 strain while experts from the World Health Organi

Photo taken on Dec. 21, 2020 shows Eurostar trains at empty St. Pancras International Station in London, Britain. Eurostar announced it was canceling trains bet

A "stop covid" sign is seen during the Proryv extreme sports festival in Moscow, Russia, Dec. 5, 2020. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr/Xinhua)


A total

A voter is seen at a voting booth at the Barthelemy Boganda high school polling station in the 4th district in Bangui, Central African Republic, on Sunday durin

Spain's coalition government is split over a proposal to shorten the working week to four days to fight high unemployment sparked by the pandemic.

The measure

A nurse talks with people outside a test screening tent in Paris, France, Dec. 16, 2020. (Xinhua/Gao Jing)
France reported 146 deaths caused by COVID-19 infecti

People queue to enter the departures area at Heathrow Airport in London, Britain, on Dec. 21, 2020.Photo:Xinhua
A new order is expected to be signed on Friday t

People watch the play "Little Red Riding Hood" by artists of the Poco Loco Theatre in a park in Zagreb, Croatia, Dec. 6, 2020. (Photo by Kresimir Saric/Xinhua)

Medical staff administer a vaccine against COVID-19 to colleagues on Sunday in a faculty hospital in Nitra, Slovakia. The European Union began a vaccine rollout

George Blake, a famous "mole" in British intelligence who spied for the Soviet KGB during the 1950s before fleeing across the Iron Curtain, has died aged 98, Ru

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

An airline worker helps a holiday traveler check in at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, the United States, on Dec. 23, 2020. In