Candles are lit up to commemorate victims of the terrorist attack against Charlie Hebdo in 2015 during a commemoration at the Place of the Republic in Paris, Fr
2020-10-19Survey ship Oruc Reis (middle) is escorted by Turkish Navy ships in the Mediterranean Sea on August 10. Photo: VCGTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sa
2020-10-19The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization's video mapping show is displayed on the Colosseum in Rome, Italy, Oct. 16, 2020. World Food Day was marked
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Condemning the "Islamic terrorist attack" that took the life of a teacher in Paris northwest suburbs, French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday eveni
Students wearing face masks gather during an event at a school in Cairo, Egypt, Oct. 17, 2020. Egypt officially reopened on Saturday tens of thousands of school
2020-10-19Photo taken on Oct. 18, 2020 shows a damaged house in central Vietnam's Quang Tri Province. (VNA via Xinhua)
A landslide triggered by prolonged downpours has le
Singapore will become the world's first country to use facial verification in its national ID scheme, but privacy advocates are alarmed by what they say is an i
2020-10-19Passengers wear face masks as they sit on a bus in Wellington, New Zealand, Aug. 31, 2020. New Zealand reported nine new cases of COVID-19 on Monday as the larg
2020-10-19Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide Photo:VCG
Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide on Saturday sent an offering of a potted plant to the Yasukuni Shrine to
Photo taken on Oct. 18, 2020 shows a damaged building after a blast struck the provincial police office in Firoz Koah, capital of Afghanistan's western Ghor pro
2020-10-19An Iranian flag is pictured at the United Nations headquarters in New York, Jan. 8, 2020. (Xinhua/Li Muzi)A longstanding UN embargo on arms sales to and from Ir
2020-10-19A European Union flag is seen in front of the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, July 7, 2020. Photo: Xinhua
The European Union (EU) welco
East European nations are thinking more seriously about how to reduce carbon emissions to make use of a 750 billion euro ($880 billion) European Union economic
2020-10-19People walk in Times Square during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York, the United States, Sept. 13, 2020.Photo:Xinhua
Leading experts warned that a new COVID-19
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Labor Party leader Jacinda Ardern (front), the incumbent prime minister, addresses a press conference in Auckland, New Zealand, on Oct. 18, 2020. (Xinhua/Guo Le
2020-10-19Indian women walk along a track as a train waits amid heavy fog and air pollution at Sahibabad station in Ghaziabad, some 25 kilometers east of New Delhi, on Ja
2020-10-19A worker sanitizes the door of a shop at a market in Agartala, the capital city of India's northeastern state of Tripura, Oct. 18, 2020. (Str/Xinhua)
A governme
A screengrab from the website of the New York State Government shows Governor Andrew Cuomo addressing his daily press conference on Oct. 18, 2020. (Xinhua)
The
FacebookA total of 2.2 million ads on Facebook and Instagram have been rejected and 120,000 posts withdrawn for attempting to "obstruct voting" in the upcoming
2020-10-19The life of a Wall Street trader was once one of business trips and work dinners, but now it is anything but.
The culprit, as with so many of the economic and
People hold signs as they pay their respects to Ruth Bader Ginsburg near the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC on Saturday. US President Donald Trump vowed to
2020-10-19Photo taken on Jan. 30, 2020 shows the headquarters of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland.(Xinhua/Chen Junxia)
A World Health Organizat
Healthcare workers wheel a patient into Brooklyn Hospital Center in Brooklyn of New York, the United States, on May 11, 2020. File photo:Xinhua
The US National
Firefighters battle the wildfire in Arcadia, Los Angeles, California, Sept. 13, 2020. Photo:Xinhua
There have been over 8,600 wildfires that have burned more t