A medical worker takes a swab sample from a woman for COVID-19 test in Mexico City, Mexico, Aug. 13, 2020.(Photo by Israel Rosas/Xinhua)


Mexico will particip

A COVID-19 patient is brought to a hospital by health workers in Brasilia, Brazil, Aug. 3, 2020. (Photo by Lucio Tavora/Xinhua)


Brazil on Tuesday said it reg

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (L) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) are seen during a press conference in Jerusalem on Aug. 24, 2020. (Amit

Gunmen have kidnapped seven students along with their female teacher from a secondary school in northern Nigeria's Kaduna state, killing a vigilante and vandali

Malian president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita. File photo: VCG
Talks between West African mediators and Mali's military coup leaders ended on Monday after three days

Uganda on Monday recalled its ambassador to Denmark and her deputy, after the pair were recorded apparently plotting in a Zoom meeting to steal funds meant to d

Tunisia's prime minister-designate on Tuesday unveiled the country's second government in six months, which must now seek approval from lawmakers incensed by ho

A man wearing a protective shield is seen at a supermarket in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on June 25, 2020. (Xinhua/Rahel Patrasso)

The confidence of Brazil's retail t

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An Australian-developed COVID-19 vaccine has shown promising results in pre-clinical testing, raising hopes for its potential effectiveness

A Chinese doctor communicates with a local doctor at the Hulhumale Hospital, Maldives, Jan. 12, 2020. Photo: Xinhua


Former president of the Maldives Maumoon

File photo taken on Aug. 29, 2019 shows a staff member shelving products at the Blackmores factory in Sydney, Australia. The Australian health supplements compa

Vehicles wade through flooded water after heavy monsoon rain in southern Pakistani port city of Karachi on Aug. 25, 2020. (Xinhua/Stringer)

Heavy monsoon rain

A banner requiring shop owners to wear masks is seen at Tongin traditional market in Seoul, South Korea, Aug. 25, 2020. South Korea reported 280 more cases of t

A man works at the construction site of the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, Egypt, on Aug. 25, 2020. Egypt has received 126,000 tourists since it reopened its se

Japan's Nagashiki Shipping, which owns the bulk carrier that ran aground on a reef in Mauritius and caused a large oil spill, said on Tuesday it has completed s

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement on Iran's nuclear weapons development site in Jerusalem, on Sept. 9, 2019. (Xinhua/Gil Cohen Mage

An Iranian flag is pictured at the United Nations headquarters in New York, Jan. 8, 2020. (Xinhua/Li Muzi)
The head of the UN's atomic watchdog arrived in Iran

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Mass testing of Russia's first potential COVID-19 vaccine to get domestic regulatory approval will involve more than 40,000 people and will be oversee

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As a developing country with insufficient medical resources, India's incapacity in dealing with COVID-19 has been shown by its skyrocketing daily inf

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A post-Brexit deal between Britain and the European Union will not be easy to achieve, the British government's chief negotiator David Frost s

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Friday said that Turkey has discovered significant natural gas reserves in the Black Sea.

"Our Fatih dri

French President Emmanuel Macron (right) speaks with Hubert Germain, a WWII veteran and 'Companion of the Liberation', during his visit to the 'Ordre de la Libe

Turkey's big push into the Mediterranean featuring gas drilling, tough rhetoric and warships rooted in a grand vision of a "Blue Homeland" is causing concern fr

Austria strengthened coronavirus controls on its border with Slovenia on the weekend, causing traffic chaos and angering Slovenian police until they relented on

Photo taken on Dec. 30, 2016 shows the US national flag on the US Embassy building in Moscow, Russia. (Xinhua/Sputnik)

The final volume of a report released T