Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador reacts during a press conference in Mexico City, Mexico, on May 8, 2020. (Str/Xinhua)

Mexico could receive a rec

The bodies of some of the victims that suffocated in a crush during a raid on a nightclub in Lima, Peru, are seen early on Monday on the back of a pick-up truc

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (C-R) greets a participant after he helped to paint "Black Lives Matter" mural in front of Trump Tower in New York, the Unite

Photo taken on Aug. 19, 2020 at the Windy Hill Open Space Preserve of San Mateo County shows a helicopter flying over the dense smoke of wildfires in San Franc

Senator Kamala Harris of California is interviewed after the second night of the first Democratic primary debate in Miami, Florida, the United States, on June 2

A new technique that grows insulin-producing cells and can protect them from immune attack after they are transplanted may offer new hope for treating some peop

Seoul, capital of South Korea, has closed more than 50 bars and clubs linked to a cluster of COVID-19 infections. The city government Saturday ordered clubs and

People wait outside a COVID-19 testing facility in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on Aug. 14, 2020. (Photo by Liang Sen/Xinhua)
The Canadian government ha

When Mike Dorn told his parents he was gay, aged 15, they tried to make him straight by sending him to a Christian camp in California for three months, where he

A strip of Venezuela's western coastline boasting pristine beaches and fragile ecosystems like mangroves and coral reefs could take more than half a century to

Steve Bannon (right), watches as President Donald Trump (left) speaks on the phone with Prime Minister of Australia, Malcolm Turnbull, in the Oval Office on Jan

A worker fix the border wall between the U.S. and Mexico, in San Diego, the United States, April 30, 2018. (Xinhua/Huang Heng)Mexican officials and border town

Thousands of people fled their homes in northern California on Wednesday as hundreds of fast-moving wildfires spread across the region, burning houses and leadi

A supermarket chain in Brazil apologized Wednesday for its handling of an employee's death at one of its stores, which covered the man's body with boxes and umb

US President Donald Trump wanted to sell Puerto Rico or swap it for Greenland because he viewed the US territory as dirty and poor, a former senior administrati

Stephen Bannon removes his mask as he exits Manhattan Federal Court following his arraignment on fraud charges over allegations that he used the money raised fo

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Joe Biden accepts nomination as the Democratic Party's presidential candidate at Democratic National Convention on Thursday night (US time

Mali's mutinous soldiers are seen in front of a military camp in Kati, near Bamako, Mali, on Aug. 19, 2020. Mali's mutinous soldiers on Wednesday announced the

Photo taken on Aug. 20, 2020 shows the Security Council meeting on the situation in Somalia at the UN headquarters in New York. Somalia, like the rest of the wo

A new consortium initiated by the European Commission's Innovative Medicines Initiative was launched on Tuesday to accelerate the discovery and development of u

Students enjoy daytime outdoors on the campus of Columbia University, New York, the United States, March 10, 2020. (Xinhua/Wang Ying)
Students are returning to

A significant proportion of Americans whose children are attending classes from home due to COVID-19 are going into debt to pay for food, school supplies, a sur

It takes a little over half an hour for the flames to devour Pedro Gomes' field at the edge of the Amazon rainforest, clearing the land for him to plant crops.

Justin Trudeau Photo: ICCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed Chrystia Freeland to be Canada's first female finance minister on Tuesday as an ethics

Armed members of the FAMA (Malian Armed Forces) are celebrated by the population as they parade at Independence Square in Bamako, Mali on Wednesday. Photo: AFPM