Women wearing face masks walk at an old bazaar in Marivan city, western Iran, July 22, 2020. The tally of COVID-19 cases in Iran exceeded 281,000 on Wednesday. (Xinhua/Ahmad Halabisaz)--Iran's COVID-1
Guangzhou Evergrande Ricardo Goulart watches from pitchside the Chinese Super League match between his team and Shenzhen on May 27, 2019. (Xinhua/Deng Hua)Ricardo Goula
With much excitement, Mai Xin entered an IMAX cinema hall in downtown Beijing at noon on Friday to watch a foreign film. "I am very excited. It is the first time that
European Union states have agreed on common hygiene standards such as social distancing and wearing face masks on planes and at airports to help curb the spread of the
Italy had the West's earliest reported coronavirus outbreak. /AFP The earliest novel coronavirus strains spreading in Italy's Lombardy region did not come directly from China, according to a n
A woman in the US testing for the coronavirus. /Reuters The United States has revisited the grim milestone of recording more than 1,000 COVID-19 deaths in a single day, while infections and ho
United Nations (UN) agencies launched on Wednesday a database of laws that countries had implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to help protect the health and well-being of individuals
Park Won-soon, mayor of South Korea's capital Seoul, was found dead around midnight, hours after his daughter filed a missing report to police Thursday evening, multiple local media said citing t
Australia reported the largest number of COVID-19 cases in a single day on Wednesday with 502 people being diagnosed in the past 24 hours. Michael Kidd, the Australian Government Deputy Chief Medica
China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) on Wednesday announced that its residents are required to wear face masks in public places, including indoor pub
File Photo: People wearing face masks are seen in Cairo, Egypt, on June 12, 2020. (Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa) Egypt's army announced on Tuesday that it killed 18 terrorists as its forces thwarted a majo
FILE PHOTO: A person wearing a mask walks through Chinatown in New York, U.S., February 13, 2020. /Reuters U.S. lawmakers and officials from the White House on Tuesday held negotiations aimed
China shares inched higher midday on Tuesday, supported by strong gains in healthcare stocks on rising hopes for a coronavirus vaccine, although profit-taking after the previous session's rally ke
DPRK leader Kim Jong Un guides the 14th enlarged meeting of Political Bureau of 7th Central Committee of WPK in this undated photo released on July 2, 2020 by North Korean Central News Agency (KC
Beijing lowered the emergency response to COVID-19 from level 2 to level 3 on Monday, setting an example of how a metropolis can contain the breakout with regular measures as the threat of infec
A subway station in China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), July 14, 2020. /ReutersHong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) has ordered most of
A voter casts his ballot in the Syrian parliamentary elections held in Damascus, capital of Syria, on July 19, 2020. (Photo by Ammar Safarjalani/Xinhua)Syria has starte