DPRK's Foreign Minister Ri Son Gwon (R) receives the commemorative medal from Russian Ambassador to the DPRK Alexandr Matsegora at the Mansudae Assembly Hall, Pyongyang, DPRK, May 5, 2020. /AP
A man was shot dead by the police after reportedly stabbing five people at a shopping center in the Australian state of Western Australia on Friday. At around 10:00 a.m. local time, police responded
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Two men had been charged with murder in the death of a 70-year-old cleaner during the months-long social unrest last year, Hong Kong police said at a press conference
An overwhelming majority of Americans are in favor of the current stay-at-home orders to stem the spread of COVID-19, despite the White House persistent push to ease s
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the gunman killed at least 18./REUTERS. A national virtual vigil will be held this week to honor nearly 20 victims of Canada's deadliest shooting as
The death toll has risen to 18 in the wake of mass shooting in the Canadian province Nova Scotia, the worst of its kind in the country's history, according the Royal Ca
00:53 A gunman in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia killed at least 17 people, including a policewoman, during a 12-hour weekend rampage, police said. The shooting spree is the wors
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The fire left it with wounds. The #COVID19 epidemic left it lonely. But neither of them could wipe out the charm of Notre-Dame de Paris. We wait for the time-weathered beauty to fully restore its gla
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Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger issued a dire warning that the world will never be the same after the coronavirus pandemic and the failure to resolve the crisis could "set the world on
Authorities say a 22-year-old man fatally shot a Phoenix police commander and wounded two other officers as they tried to remove him from a home after his roommates com
Railway repair is well underway after a train derailed in the city of Chenzhou in central China's Hunan Province Monday that killed one and injured 127. The accident h