Gross domestic product in South Africa shrank by more than half from April to June compared with a year earlier, battered by the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the country's statistics agency sa
A senior Palestinian official said on Tuesday that Israel is accelerating its move to implement the plan of annexing parts of the West Bank. Walid Assaf, head of the National Commission to Resist the
02:29 The two largest economies in Latin America, Brazil and Mexico, are among the four nations hardest hit by COVID-19 in the world. Many other Latin American democracies are facing u
Canada’s opposition leader Andrew Scheer on Friday called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill Morneau to resign amid the ongoing WE Charity scand
China has largely controlled COVID-19, and the rest of the world can still learn from China's successes in bringing its outbreak under control, according to the latest editorial by medical journal
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Monday successfully launched its first Mars orbiter, the Hope Probe, said the UAE government. "The UAE marks history with an unprecedented space achievement for t
Greek Prime Minister Kiriakos Mitsotakis said on Sunday he hoped the third day of EU leaders’ summit will manage to overcome differences and agree on a mass economic st
Major U.S. multinational bank Wells Fargo Company has reported a net loss of 2.4 billion U.S. dollars for the second quarter of 2020, compared with a net income of 6.2 billion dollars for the same pe
Two days after India blocked 59 apps developed by Chinese firms, Google and Apple have started to comply with New Delhi’s order and are preventing users in the world’s second largest inter
Espanyol have been greatly inspired by their early performance and are building momentum since La Liga's restart, said the Barcelona outfit striker Wu Lei. Espanyol beat Alaves 2-0 on their return f
China's homegrown C919 passenger jet taxis after landing on its maiden flight at the Pudong International Airport in Shanghai, China, May 5, 2017. /Reuters The Civil Aviation Administration of
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will join hands with Beijing 2022 organizers in adopting a "peak to peak" approach from the Tokyo Games to the Beijing Games, which will be held only six mo
China has made a truly remarkable breakthrough in the fight against poverty and will certainly complete the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects this year, a Russian scholar h
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved 121.1 million U.S. dollars in emergency assistance under the Rapid Financing Instrument and Rapid Credit Facility for Kyrgyz
Nigeria has overseen a huge growth of locally-owned and managed companies in its oil sector - but lower prices and the new coronavirus are threatening the transformation./Reuters Nigeria's eco
More than 20.2 million U.S. private-sector jobs were destroyed in April, and that almost certainly underestimates the damage from the efforts to contain the novel coronavirus, payrolls firm ADP said
The international community needs solidarity and cooperation more than ever in the face of the unprecedented pandemic challenge, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Monday. Xi made the remarks durin
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