The death toll from an apartment block collapse in western India jumped to 35 Wednesday, officials said, as hopes of finding anyone else alive dimmed.
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Deadly blazes raging across the western US have again destroyed thousands of homes nestled in forested areas in 2020 - with months of the fire season still to c
2020-09-24Pentagon File photo:VCGUS Defense Secretary Mark Esper pledged Tuesday to help maintain Israel's military superiority in the Middle East, amid its concerns over
2020-09-24US President Donald Trump Photo: AFP
A Canadian woman accused of sending a ricin poison-laced letter to Donald Trump was formally charged on Tuesday with threat
A climate change activist holds a placard to highlight environment hazards, deforestation and wildfires of the Amazon forest outside the Brazilian Consulate Gen
2020-09-24Photo taken on July 14, 2020 shows the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., the United States. (Xinhua/Liu Jie)
US President Donald Trump said Tues
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Facebook will take an array of measures to "restrict the circulation of content" if the November 3 US presidential election devolve
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As universities in the UK reopen their campuses, Chinese students are travelling via chartered flights to the UK at a time when international tra
People walk on Tower Bridge in London, Britain, on September 14. Photo: Xinhua
Transgender people will not be allowed to legally change gender without a medi
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the online meeting with members of the government at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia, on April
2020-09-24A security personnel measures a visitor's temperature before she enters the Taj Mahal in Agra, India, Sept. 23, 2020. India's iconic monument of love - Taj Maha
2020-09-24People walk past the US Treasury Department building in Washington, D.C., the United States, May 21, 2020. (Photo by Ting Shen/Xinhua)
The United States on We
Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) Robert Redfield (front) speaks during a press conference with members of the White House co
2020-09-24A medical worker instructs a woman to take a swab sample at a COVID-19 drive-thru testing site in Atlanta, Georgia, the United States, July 20, 2020. (Photo by
2020-09-24A man wears a face mask in Havana, Cuba. Photo: AFP
The United States on Wednesday imposed new restriction measures against Cuba, an effort to further deny Hava
Smoke rises from an explosion site at the port of Beirut, Lebanon, Aug. 4, 2020. Photo: VCG
A Chinese envoy on Wednesday asked for international efforts to help
Photo shows a boy walking down a narrow alley on the island of Arwad in the Tartous province in northwestern Syria. (Xinhua/Hummam Sheikh Ali)
During the more
Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Robert Redfield attends a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on "Review of Coronav
2020-09-23People wearing face masks walk on a street in Downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on Sept. 22, 2020. As the COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating in the c
2020-09-23The US economy will only recover from the coronavirus downturn when people feel safe to resume their normal activities, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said
2020-09-23New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio talks to the press after he greets students arriving for the first day of Pre-K school at Mosaic Pre-K Center in the Queens b
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US COVID-19 deaths surpass 200,000: Johns Hopkins University
British leisure group Whitbread, owner of Premier Inn hotels, said Tuesday that it could axe up to 6,000 jobs or almost a fifth of its workforce, owing to the e
2020-09-23Europe's top court on Tuesday upheld France's law requiring municipal authorization for short-term property rentals by platforms like Airbnb, a decision that ma
2020-09-23European Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen addresses her first state of the union speech during a plenary session at the European Union Parliament in Br
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