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People queue to have a COVID-19 nucleic acid test in Changping district, Beijing, on June 18, 2020. [Photo by Wu Xiaohui/chinadaily.com.cn] A downpour on Thursday afternoon did not halt nucleic acid testing for the novel coronavirus in Beijing’s Haidian district. As the rain fell, several buses carrying dozens of people from across the district arrived […]

Police investigating the fatal shooting of a police officer in Auckland have charged a man with murder. Police Commissioner Andrew Coster  said a 24-year-old man has been arrested and charged with multiple serious offences including murder, attempted murder and dangerous driving causing Injury. He will be appearing in the Waitakere District Court tomorrow. It comes […]

President Xi Jinping delivers the keynote speech at the Extraordinary China-Africa Summit on Solidarity Against COVID-19 via video link in Beijing on Wednesday. HUANG JINGWEN/XINHUA Supportive measures unveiled at event to consolidate Sino-African friendship African leaders and experts have hailed President Xi Jinping’s keynote speech at the Extraordinary China-Africa Summit on Solidarity Against COVID-19, saying the […]

Donald Trump’s decision was ruled unlawful [Getty] The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President Donald Trump’s effort to end legal protections for 650,000 young immigrants, a stunning rebuke to the president in the midst of his reelection campaign. For now, those immigrants retain their protection from deportation and their authorization to work in the United States. The 5-4 outcome, in […]

AP File Photo  The World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday that a few hundred million COVID-19 vaccine doses could be produced by the end of the year – and be targeted at those most vulnerable to the virus. The United Nations health agency said it was working on that assumption, with a view to two […]

MNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un (KCNA-Yonhap) South Korea’ Defense Minister Jeong Kyeong-doo vowed strong responses to any aggression from North Korea, blaming the North for disappointing the expectations of those wishing for peace on the peninsula. “We will forcefully respond to any attack from North Korea, without hesitation. We will keep under control the escalating […]

German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses the lower house of parliament in Berlin, Germany, on June 18, 2020. © Annegret Hilse, Reuters German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday urged the European Union to reach an agreement on a recovery plan worth €750 billion ($843 billion) by the end of July to kickstart an economy battered by the […]

President Donald Trump asked President Xi Jinping of China for domestic political help to boost his electoral prospects in the midst of the two leaders’ trade war last summer, according to the bombshell account of former national security adviser John Bolton in his forthcoming memoir. According to an excerpt of the memoir, published in the Wall Street […]

A member of an Indian medical team registers upon her arrival at Dubai International Airport on May 9, 2020, to help with the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. (AFP)  India‘s official coronavirus death toll leapt by more than 2,000 to reach 11,903 on Wednesday as Germany advised its nationals to consider leaving the country because of growing […]

A cheap and widely available drug can help save the lives of patients seriously ill with coronavirus.The low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone is a major breakthrough in the fight against the deadly virus, UK experts say. The drug is part of the world’s biggest trial testing existing treatments to see if they also work for coronavirus.It cut the […]