A global meeting is underway in India to protect migratory wild species, with delegates planning to give more protection to Asian elephants and nine other species.The weeklong meeting called the 1
Medical workers console a newly admitted patient at Leishenshan Hospital in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, February 16, 2020. /Xinhua Photo Editor's Note: Md Enamul Hassan is a diploma
General Motors decision to pull out of Australia, New Zealand and Thailand as part of a strategy to exit markets that don't produce adequate returns on investments rais
Huangshi City in Hubei Province, one of the worst-hit areas by the novel coronavirus, has managed to get a cure rate of 20.96 percent and a mortality rate of just 1.53 percent, both better than th
Aston Martin Lagonda cars are parked outside the new factory at Saint Athan, Wales, Britain, December 6, 2019. /Reuters Photo Britain's 47 years of EU membership officially ceased at the strok
A bushfire that burned in January and February has been declared the worst-ever environmental disaster in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). The Orroral Valley bushfire burned more than 80,000
By APD writer Muhammad SohailISLAMABAD, Feb. 17 (APD) -- A panicked and worried Pakistani farmer named Asghar Ali has finally lost his fight against locust attacks that
Storm Dennis roared across Britain with high winds and heavy rains Sunday, prompting authorities to issue some 350 flood warnings, including a “red warning” alert for l
Participants at the 56th Munich Security Conference (MSC) have spoken highly of China's efforts in the fight against the novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19), expressing confidence in its capabili
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir said on Saturday he was cutting the number of states from 32 to 10, unlocking a stalled peace deal and paving the way for the formati
Shipping companies are struggling to relocate seafarers after multiple states imposed limitations on crew change over fears of the COVID-19 virus spreading. (Credit: AP) Crew members on cargo
03:01 Locking down Wuhan, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak and also a city of 11 million people, was a tough decision – and a controversial one. There we
A novel coronavirus patient gives a thumbsup to doctors at a hospital in Wuhan, Hubei province, February 10, 2020. /Xinhua Photo Editor's note: Robert Lawrence Kuhn is a public intellectual an
Jorge Chediek, director of the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC), told Xinhua on Thursday that China will soon overcome the current problem of
The four EU members of the UN Security Council -- Belgium, Estonia, France and Germany -- plus Poland, which has just left the council, on Friday asked for an immediat
01:00 Droughts, floods, wildfires and rising sea levels – Europe faces the prospect of being ravaged by extreme weather before the end of the century, unless urgent action to confront
The International Astronomical Union has issued the preliminary results from a study on the potential effects of multi-thousand satellite constellations like that being built by StarLink. Finding that
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