The U.S. Embassy to Libya on Saturday welcomed the Egyptian initiative for a political settlement between Libya's UN-backed government and the eastern-based army. "The
Face coverings will be compulsory on public transport in England from June 15 to help contain the transmission of the novel coronavirus, British Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said Thursday. Cha
Armed conflicts in western Libya between the UN-backed government and the eastern-based army has been escalating with the possibility of spreading to eastern and southern Libya, overshadowing t
Beijing will host a freestyle basketball challenge event for teenagers and kids online in the coming week, announced the Beijing Basketball Association on Tuesday. The
00:39 The head of the UK's statistics regulator has strongly criticized the government's COVID-19 testing data, saying they were "far from complete and comprehensible."The UK governmen
The UK government has said the English Premier League could restart from 1 June. /Reuters The British government has approved the return of domestic competitive sport behind closed doors from
The Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) said Friday that it firmly supports the HKSAR Chief Execut
U.S. authorities must take "serious action" to halt police killings of unarmed African Americans, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet sa
Chief Executive of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Carrie Lam on Thursday welcomed the adoption of the decision on establishing and improving t
NASA and SpaceX postponed historic launch of two astronauts to space from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday due to bad weather. "Due to the weather c
Two NASA astronauts will fly on SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday, the first launch of American astronauts on an Am
Some 100 Taliban prisoners were released from a military prison in Afghanistan Monday as part of the government's response to a ceasefire offered by the militants to ma
Afghanistan's President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has welcomed the three-day ceasefire announced by the Taliban outfit on Saturday and vowed to set free 2,000 more Taliban detainees to expedite the
A group of Chinese medical experts arrived in the capital of Tajikistan early Sunday to help the country fight its COVID-19 epidemic. Invited by the Tajik government,
A shopkeeper arranges clothes ahead of Eid al-Fitr festival, which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan, in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 23, 2020. (Xinhua/Rahmatullah Alizadah) Afghans marked Eid al
China was the first to take very strong actions and is the first to be exiting the COVID-19 crisis, so there are a lot of valuable lessons to be learned from China's experience, the International Mon
India has entered the fourth phase of lockdown which is supposed to last until 31 May. Digital platforms have emerged as an alternative for carrying out indispensable h