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Civil servants swear allegiance to HKSAR and Basic Law

Civil servants in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), including 12 deputy secretaries and 14 political assistants, have taken an oath of allegiance to

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Run-over cyclist survives

00:33 A bicyclist in the city of Ganzhou in the Jiangxi province of China miraculously survived being run over by a truck. See the cyclist climbing out from under the truck by herself.

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9 killed in road accident in SE China's Fujian

Nine people were killed, and seven injured after a concrete mixer truck collided with a farm vehicle in Putian City, southeast China's Fujian Province on Friday afterno

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Last nine counties in China taken off poverty list

The last nine poverty-stricken counties in southwest China's Guizhou Province were officially removed from the poverty list, the provincial government announced on Mond

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3 Syrian soldiers killed in Israeli air strikes

CFP file photo An Israeli air strike over the Golan Heights killed three Syrian military personnel early on Wednesday, Syria's state news agency SANA said.Israeli military spokesman Avichay A

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Parks reopen in Venezuela after months of lockdown

02:26 Venezuelan authorities have opened public parks and beaches after many months of lockdown. It's a welcome change for people whoremainedinside their homes, but park workers say th

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Azerbaijan says it has taken Karabakh's second-largest city, Armenia denies it

Azeri President Ilham Aliyev said on Sunday his country's forces had taken Shusha, the second-largest city in the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave, a statement that Armenian of

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Czech health minister resigns amid surge in COVID-19 cases

Czech Health Minister Adam Vojtech said on Monday he had submitted his resignation following criticism over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, as the central Eur

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Libya reports 655 new COVID-19 cases

VCG Image The National Center for Disease Control of Libya on Sunday reported 655 new COVID-19 cases.The center said in a statement that it received a total of 2,756 suspected samples, of whic

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Twitter account of Indian PM Modi's personal website apparently hacked

A Twitter account of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's personal website appeared to be hacked early on Thursday with a series of tweets requesting its followers to donate to a relief fund thro

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Asia Album: Vehicles buried in mud after heavy rainfall, landslide hit India's Jaipur

Photo taken on Aug. 14, 2020 shows vehicles buried in mud after heavy rainfall and landslide in Jaipur, India. (Str/Xinhua) NEW DELHI, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- Vehicles were buried in mud after a landslid

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China's surveyed unemployment rate flat in July

Photo taken on July 25, 2020 shows the site of a job fair in Yinchuan, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Feng Kaihua)BEIJING, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) --

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China's fixed-asset investment decline narrows

Aerial photo taken on July 25, 2020 shows the new Taiyuan-Jiaozuo high-speed railway in Jiaozuo, central China's Henan Province. (Xinhua/Li An)BEIJING, Aug. 14 (Xinhua)

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Havana returns to lockdown as COVID-19 cases surge

01:44 Cuba's taken a few steps back in its fight against the coronavirus as authorities battle a new flareup of the disease in the nation's capital.CGTN's Luis Chirino reports from Hav

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Five injured, four missing in China factory blast

Five people were injured, and four others went missing after a flash explosion at a chemical plant on Monday afternoon in central China's Hubei Province, local authori

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Asia Album: Flash flood hits Afghanistan's eastern province

Photo taken on Aug. 1, 2020 shows a flooded area in Qalatak village of Kozkunar district of Nangarhar province, Afghanistan.(Photo by Saifurahman Safi/Xinhua)JALALABAD, Afghanistan, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) --

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Asia Album: To live, to love, to dance -- amid COVID-19 pandemic

Members of the Sumber Cipta Ballet rehearse "To Live To Love To Dance" as a virtual ballet performance in Jakarta, Indonesia, July 25, 2020. (Xinhua/Agung Kuncahya B.)JAKARTA, July 26 (Xinhua) -- As t