Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to post economic growth of 2.3 percent-3.4 percent in 2021, the World Bank said in a new report on Wednesday, bouncing back from

Photo taken on Sept. 15, 2020 shows Russia's COVID-19 vaccine named "Sputnik V" during the phase-3 clinical trials in Moscow, Russia.(Photo: Xinhua)
The Russian

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at a meeting of the Federal Security Service Board on Feb. 24, 2021. (Photo: Xinhua)
The Kremlin said Tuesday it hopes M

The suicide bombing at an Indonesian cathedral on Palm Sunday was carried out by two members of a pro-Islamic State extremist group blamed for other church blas

Workers transfer boxes of COVID-19 vaccines from the vaccine-sharing COVAX initiative arrived at Abidjan International Airport in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, Feb. 2

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Photo: VCGAustralian Prime Minister Scott Morrison's approval ratings fell to the lowest level in a year as his conse

President Moon Jae-in speaks at a press conference on Monday. He made clear that it is premature to talk about granting special pardons to two convicted former

People enjoy the warm weather in London's Primrose Hill, in Britain, March 29, 2021. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday urged the public to remain c

More than a fifth of small British exporters have temporarily halted sales to the European Union and 4 percent have done so permanently, a survey showed on Mond

After 10 years of war in Syria, the international community will be asked to step up with billions of dollars in new aid pledges on Monday to fund humanitarian

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Two Tu-142 long-range anti-submarine aircraft of the Russia Northern Fleet conducted a planned flig

Photo taken on Sept. 12, 2012 shows the logo of the World Bank headquarters in Washington D.C., capital of the United States. (Xinhua/Wang Yiou)
China could act

Police wearing face masks patrol at the Red Square in Moscow, Russia, on March 23, 2021.(Photo: Xinhua)

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Sunday that the

The Ever Given cargo vessel that was stuck in the Suez Canal has now been refloated, maritime services provider Inchcape said Monday on Twitter.

Support for German Chancellor Angela Merkel's party has fallen further, a poll released on Sunday indicated, with the ecologist Greens closing in to just two po

Experts tasked with assessing whether the European Union should label nuclear power as a green investment will say that the fuel has been qualified as sustainab

France, Belgium and Poland on Saturday tightened curbs as coronavirus cases surged in Europe while the Philippines prepared for a giant lockdown and Chile confi

Parked on the roadside next to a graveyard in Cape Town's Gugulethu township, a tuberculosis hot spot, a team of health workers set up a makeshift TB screening

File photo shows people walk past a Safaricom Shop along a street in Nairobi, Kenya, Aug. 11, 2019. (Photo: Xinhua)

Kenya's telecoms operator Safaricom on Fri

Rescue vessels work at the site of a container ship trapped on the Suez Canal of Egypt on March 26, 2021.(Photo: Xinhua)
Ships wait to pass the Suez Canal in t

Botswana's former president Festus Mogae receives the COVID-19 vaccine at Block 8 Medical Clinic in Gaborone, Botswana, on March 26, 2021. Botswana kicked off i

Australia on Sunday ended a pandemic wage subsidy scheme despite official warnings that up to 150,000 people could lose their jobs as a result.

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The US confirmed on Friday that it has assisted Sudan with more than $1 billion to help clear arrears at the World Bank as it hailed reforms by the civilian-bac

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison attends a press conference in Canberra, Australia, June 26, 2020. (Photo by Chu Chen/Xinhua)Australian Prime Minister S

Rapid antigen tests on arrival after travel can be just as effective as quarantining to stop imported cases of COVID-19, according to new research which the tra