A health worker collects swab samples for COVID-19 test in Hyderabad, India on Aug. 28, 2020. (Str/Xinhua)

India's COVID-19 tally surpassed 3.5 million, risin

A pedestrian wearing a face mask walks past an electronic board showing the stock index in Tokyo, Japan, on Aug. 28, 2020. Tokyo stocks closed lower Friday as i

A Palestinian father picks up his son from a school run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in Gaza City on Thursday. Israel attacked Hamas targets in

A girl wearing a face mask is seen at a bazaar in Rasht city, Iran, on Aug. 29, 2020. Iran's COVID-19 cases on Saturday rose to 371,816 with the registration of

A motorist rides a motorbike past closed shops on a street in Amritsar, India on Saturday amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Photo: AFPIndian authorities further eased

Demonstrators gather at the Lincoln Memorial for the "Commitment March: Get Your Knee Off Our Necks" event in Washington, D.C., the United States, Aug. 28, 2020

A man rides a bicycle at Ibirapuera park in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Aug. 26, 2020. Public parks in the city are gradually returning to operate full schedule amid the

Gen. Mark Milley testifies before the Senate Arms Services Committee on his nomination to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Capitol Hill in Washington

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US named another 11 Chinese firms, including construction giant China Communications Construction Company, as being owned or controlled

A woman sheds tears as she mourns her family member who died of COVID-19 in Bhaktapur, Nepal, on Aug. 30, 2020. The Nepali government on Sunday confirmed record

Combo photo shows former US Vice President Joe Biden (L) and US President Donald Trump attending their respective events on different occasions. Photo:Xinhua
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Indian conglomerate Reliance is acquiring the retail, wholesale and logistics businesses of the Future Group for $3.38 billion, the oil-to-telecoms giant announ

Tens of thousands of Mauritians protested Saturday in the capital Port-Louis over the government's handling of a giant oil spill off its pristine Indian Ocean c

People wearing face masks attend the Friday prayers at Mohamed Ali Mosque in Cairo, Egypt, on Aug. 28, 2020. Egypt registered on Friday 223 new COVID-19 infecti

Juan Guerri (R) and Natalia Fossati demonstrate Tango moves during an online class at an apartment in Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 31, 2020. (Photo by Martin Z

Photo taken on Feb. 9, 2020 shows the building of Chicago Police Department near Chinatown of Chicago, the United States. (Xinhua/Wang Ping)
At least one person

Costa Rica's government said on Saturday it has requested $1.75 billion in financial assistance over three years from the International Monetary Fund as the Cen

A majority of US states have rejected new Trump administration COVID-19 testing guidance in an extraordinary rebuke of the nation's top agency for disease preve

Demonstrators march on Wednesday in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The city declared a state of emergency curfew after a fourth night of civil unrest after the shooting of

Demonstrators gather at the Lincoln Memorial for the "Commitment March: Get Your Knee Off Our Necks" event in Washington, D.C., the United States, Aug. 28, 2020

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Czech Senate President Milos Vystrcil was set to lead a delegation to the island of Taiwan on Sunday, the highest-ranking official of th

The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned Norwegian Ambassador to Russia Rune Resaland on Friday after Oslo expelled a Russian diplomat, a Sputnik correspondent rep

Three more vaccines against the coronavirus are currently in the process of registration in Russia, the country's Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said on Thurs

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The European Commission (EC) signed its first deal to buy COVID-19 vaccines from pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, European Commissioner f

Young Tanzanians from Dragon Warriors Club practice kungfu in the city center of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Aug. 25, 2020. (Xinhua)

Salmin Jumanne, a 12-year-ol