An Iranian flag is pictured at the United Nations headquarters in New York, Jan. 8, 2020. (Xinhua/Li Muzi)The signatories to the Iran nuclear deal said Tuesday

Britain on Wednesday insisted it would maintain its foreign aid commitments, as its flagship overseas development agency was shut and merged with the foreign mi

Photo taken on Sept. 2, 2020 shows the U.S. Federal Reserve headquarters in Washington, D.C., the United States. Driven by the massive fiscal response to the CO

Instant coffee, ketchup, Lululemon yoga pants and Nike Air Max sneakers are all in. Bottled water, pricey diapers and Burberry luxury trench coats are out.

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Houses are damaged by an earthquake in Atacama, Chile, Sept. 1, 2020. A powerful 7-magnitude earthquake that hit northern Chile just past midnight damaged build

Australia fell into its deepest economic slump on record in the second quarter of 2020 as coronavirus curbs paralyzed business activity, while fresh outbreaks t

People do shopping at a market ahead of the new school year in the West Bank city of Nablus on Sept. 1, 2020. (Photo by Ayman Nobani/Xinhua)
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People carry plastic bags on a street in Reading, Britain, on Sept. 2, 2020. As part of its strategy to protect oceans from plastic waste, the British governmen

Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga attends a news conference at Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's official residence in Tokyo, Japan on May 29, 2017. Phot

Pakistan on Tuesday blocked access to Tinder and several other dating apps in a bid to control "immoral" and "indecent" content, just days after regulators thre

Police said that four South Koreans died after their car crashed into a US armored vehicle on Sunday night in Pocheon, north of Seoul, The Korea Times reported

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A report that child marriages are on the rise in India amid the COVID-19 pandemic increased concern for the welfare of minors, especially young girls

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US President Donald Trump on Tuesday visited Kenosha in Wisconsin state, following week-long violent protests over the police shooting of unarmed A

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Monday he had been diagnosed with a kidney stone and would undergo surgery in September to remove it.

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Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador acknowledged in a state of the nation address Tuesday that murders and extortion by organized crime gangs had incr

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday condemned the weekend toppling of a statue of Canada's first prime minister in Montreal by anti-racism activist

Kenosha County police officers in riot gear form a line behind a burning truck during demonstrations against the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Photo taken on Aug. 17, 2020 shows an entrance of the Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam, Germany. (Xinhua/Shan Yuqi)

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Palestinians wearing face masks ride a donkey cart on a street in Gaza City, Aug. 29, 2020. (Photo by Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua)

Gaza's Islamist rulers Hamas sai

A screenshot taken from the website of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Sept. 1, 2020 shows the title and photo of its latest publication "COVID-

A fighter with the Syrian Democratic Forces fires a mortar shell toward a part of Baghouz where remaining Islamic State (IS) group fighters are holding out in t

The governing body in charge of London's financial district is asking for views on whether to take down statues and other landmarks with historic links to slave

When the bones of the early armored dinosaur Scelidosaurus were unearthed in 1858 in west Dorset, England, they comprised the first complete dinosaur skeleton e

Screens display the flight number of the first-ever commercial flight from Israel to the UAE at the Ben Gurion Airport, Israel on Monday. The flight would carry

Afghan authorities have resumed a controversial release of Taliban inmates, an insurgent spokesman said Tuesday, marking an important step toward breaking an im