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Poland's presidential election to be held within 74 days

Poland's top electoral body gave the speaker of parliament 14 days to set a new date for presidential elections that were to have been held Sunday but were suspended am

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Why the White House has backed down from the 'Wuhan Lab Theory'

Editor's note:Tom Fowdy is a British political and international relations analyst and a graduate of Durham and Oxford universities. He writes on topics pertaining to China, the DPRK, Britain and

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U.S. politicians, please listen to COVID-19 professionals

Note: The following article is taken from the Chinese-language opinion column "The Real Point".Dr. Rick Bright, who was ousted last month as director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Develo

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Serbia pres. calls right-wing group 'fascists' after clash

Serbia’s president is denouncing a “fascist rampage” after a right-wing opposition group clashed with ruling party lawmakers outside the parliament building.The leader

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Spain to avert political crisis, extend virus lockdown

Spain’s left-wing coalition government appears to have averted throwing the country into a political crisis on top of the enormous challenge it already faces from a dev

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Trump's reopening plan is murderous and Americans do not buy it

A now hiring sign is displayed in front of a grocery store, Wednesday, April 29, 2020, in Des Moines, Iowa. /AP Editor's note: Bradley Blankenship is a Prague-based American journalist, politi

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Serbia to hold election as it eases emergency measures

Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic. /AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic Serbia's president has set 21 June as the date of a parliamentary election which had been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.T

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U.S. politicians in a COVID-19 fantasy bereft of science

Editor's note: The following article is taken from the Chinese-language opinion column "The Real Point."Despite the increasing number of conclusions reached by scientists across the world that the

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Supreme Court starts hearing criminal charges against Israel's PM

FILE PHOTO: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and his wife Sara Netanyahu pose for a photograph with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni (L) and Uganda's First Lady Janet Museveni. /Uga

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Bannon leads activists in anti-China charge

FILE PHOTO: Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon gestures as he speaks during a conference of Swiss weekly magazine Die Weltwoche in Zurich, Switzerland, March 6, 2018. /Reuters Ed

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Kosovo PM seeks legal opinion on nomination of replacement

Kosovo’s acting prime minister has asked European constitutional law experts for an opinion on the powers of his country’s president to nominate a new prime minister an

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Trump urges Michigan governor to settle with anti-lockdown protesters

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday called on the governor of Michigan to talk to and make deal with demonstrators who have been protesting the state's coronavirus l

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SpaceX, Blue Origin win contracts to build NASA's moon lander

An artist's impression of Commander Neil Armstrong walking on the surface of the Moon during NASA's Apollo 11 lunar landing mission, July 1969. /VCG NASA on Thursday selected space firms Space

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Apple exec Cynthia Hogan joins Biden’s VP vetting team

Joe Biden’s campaign this morning announced that it has chosen a team to vet potential running mates for the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. The four-person committee three high-pro

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Inter manager Conte welcomes Nainggolan, Perisic back, but not Icardi

L-R: Mauro Icardi of Paris Saint-Germain, Radja Nainggolan of Cagliari Calcio and Ivan Perisic of Bayern Munich. /VCG The 2019-20 Serie A season is still under suspension but that doesn't mean

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Sudan's Bashir requests prison transfer after aide contracts virus

FILE PHOTO: Sudan's deposed military ruler Omar al-Bashir stands in a defendant's cage during the opening of his corruption trial in Khartoum. /AFP Former Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir req

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Decoding America's anti-China Messaging Campaign

03:42 Editor's note: U.S. Republicans issued a 57-page anti-China memo, providing candidates with talking points on how to attack China for the coronavirus crisis in the U.S. In this e