Masked police dragged people into vans and fired stun grenades and tear gas to disperse crowds as tens of thousands marched for a seventh straight weekend to demand vet
Alexander Lukashenko was sworn in as the president of Belarus Wednesday in the Palace of Independence, the official news agency Belta said. The report said that the swe
04:02 Editor's note:At the opening of the General Debate of the 75th session of the United Nations (UN) on Tuesday, Chinese President Xi Jinping called for countries around the world t
Small and medium businesses have been some of the hardest hit in the Covid-19 pandemic. And all that has been as true in emerging markets as it has been for SMBs in the developed world.Tunde Kehinde
Adam Mosseri, chief executive officer of Instagram Inc. /CFP Any short-term benefit that Instagram would see from a potential TikTok ban is greatly outweighed by the risks of a fragmented inte
A schoolboy using a tablet at a library. /Getty Editor's note: David Lee is a consultant and author based in Beijing. He focuses on energy, health, international politics and international dev
A robot called Pepper, which can engage in conversation and learn people's tastes, has been tested in care homes.
The exhibition area of the China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) in Beijing, capital of China, September 2, 2020. /Xinhua The upcoming China International Fair for Trade in S
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko agreed on Sunday to meet in Moscow "in the coming weeks," the Kremlin said in a pre
Africa has been declared free from wild poliovirus, paving the way for the global eradication of the disease, announced the Africa Regional Certification Commission on Tuesday.The region has detec
A lagging trend of the past few months has been witnessing startups that COVID seemed poised to kill end up scaling back some of those deep cuts and taking off again. Not all spaces have been quite so
Moscow is concerned about foreign interference in the internal affairs of Belarus, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday. "I will not specify these forces and countries. There is indirect
The situation in the blockaded Gaza Strip turns more complicated amid Israel's threats to launch a military campaign against armed Palestinian factions in the enclave,
VCG Image The African continent is making very good progress in terms of vaccine development for the COVID-19 pandemic, Director of the Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa
02:02 Afghanistan's grand assembly, known as the Loya Jirga, approved on Sunday the release of 400 "hard-core" Taliban prisoners that Kabul had been reluctant to authorize, overcoming
Search for the 47 people missing in India's southern state of Kerala after a massive landslide buried them has entered into the second straight day, local officials said Saturday. Rescuers have so fa
At least seven people were killed and 10 others rescued after a massive landslide hit India's southern state of Kerala on Friday. The landslide triggered by heavy rain