India's National Disaster Response Force personnel evacuate villagers ahead of cyclone Amphan in Bhadrak district of India's eastern state of Odisha, May 19, 2020. (Str
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Headquarters is seen in Washington D.C., the United States, April 13, 2020. (Xinhua/Liu Jie) The International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Venezuela's central bank has launched a legal claim in an effort to force the Bank of England to hand over £830m ($1.02bn) of the country's gold it holds.A document sub
U.S. President Donald Trump attends a press conference at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 29, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's note:Mike Cormack is a writer, editor and reviewer most
A check-point at the entrance of the small town of Vo Vecchio, situated in the red zone of the COVID-19 outbreak (Credit: Marco Sabadin/AFP) The Italian government will allow unrestricted trav
The White House has begun informal talks with Republicans and Democrats in Congress about what to include in another round of coronavirus relief legislation, officials said on Sunday, while predictin
If the epidemiological situation worsens, restrictive measures may be re-imposed, Popova said.MOSCOW, May 6 (Xinhua) -- Anna Popova, head of Russia's consumer rights and human well-being watchdog Rosp
When Allison Rapaport was pregnant for the first time, in 2013, she struggled to find workout classes that didn’t completely go against the advice her OB-GYN gave her.Conflicted on whether to trust on
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Editor's note: The following article is taken from the Chinese-language opinion column "The Real Point."U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo launched anothe
00:52 The right to privacy or safeguarding public health – which is more important? And should one be sacrificed for the other? This is one of the biggest questions the world's now fac
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday called for the reopening of the country's borders, as he pushes to restart South America's largest economy, but conceded he may be blamed if the new coron
While some nations are beginning to lift some of the measures they imposed in order to curb the spread of the coronavirus, the UN’s health body warned against being too
01:45 First it was supermarkets, and now gun shops in Hungary are reporting a boost in customers as the coronavirus pandemic worsens.A license is required to own live ammunition weapon
Editor's Note: The World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 12. As of April 2, about 200 countries and regions have confirmed over 850,000 cases, with more than 42,000
The coronavirus pandemic is raging around the world, posing a thorny test for countries and regions, as the global tally of cases surpassed 900,000 on Wednesday. So fa
UN agencies are continuing to help countries cope with the COVID-19 pandemic amid a stern warning by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) that the g
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