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The head of the World Health Organization warned Monday that despite months of governments battling the coronavirus pandemic, "the worst is yet to come." What are the details? During a virtual news conference, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom G

There are two nuclear power plants in Russia.

As monsoon storms rip across India, officials said over 100 people lost their lives in a single day due to lightning strikes, with dozens injured by falling trees and electricity poles. More storms are on the way.

The Trump administration signed a bill condemning the existence of concentration camps in China on the same day as alarming accusations surfaced from the book by John Bolton, his former national security advisor. Bolton claimed in his book that it appeare

President Donald Trump signed the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act into law on Wednesday, requiring sanctions on Chinese officials.

China has found the trading sections for meat and seafood in Beijing's wholesale food market to be severely contaminated with the new coronavirus and suspects the area's low temperature and high humidity may have been contributing factors, officia

Cloud of aerosol droplets can carry infectious particles up to one metre away, research shows

The new coronavirus outbreak in Beijing is "extremely severe," according to local authorities, as more than 100 cases have been confirmed in five days. Beijing has taken additional measures to cont...

BEIJING (AP) - Chinese media say more than 60% of commercial flights in and out of Beijing have been canceled as the city raises alert level amid a new coronavirus outbreak. The website of the Communist Party's Global Times said that as of 9 a.m. Wedn

Macron says his country will fight against racism but it will not surrender its historic statues.

Swiss police are looking for a forgetful individual who left something rather important on a train — a package full of gold bars, worth more than $190,000. The parcel containing the gold bars was found in the carriage of a Swiss Federal Railways (SB

Tensions between two nuclear-armed states China and India are not new. Both countries share the world's longest unmarked border. They have been engaging in several encounters for ages. Recent events suggest that escalations are highly possible.

Brazil registered 772,416 confirmed cases of coronavirus on Wednesday, with 32,913 new infections in the last 24 hours, as the world's second worst outbreak after the United States continued to surge.

Federal prosecutors in New York have formally requested through the British government to speak with Prince Andrew as part of their ongoing criminal...

A mysterious fleet of propeller planes was spotted flying banners over New York Wednesday congratulating a "New Federal State of China." Puzzled and exasperated New Yorkers spotted the banners from Manhattan, flying over the Hudson, and down over

BEIJING—China will attack Taiwan if there is no other way of stopping it from becoming independent, one of ...

Britain is prepared to offer extended visa rights and a pathway to citizenship for almost 3 million Hong Kong residents in response to China's push to impose national security legislation in the former British colony.'

Hong Kong was once considered a 'golden goose' to the CCP, helping propel China's economic development and transformation. By trying to impose absolute control on Hong Kong, the CCP killed the golden goose.

I don't know about you, but I've been following the issue of travel since we've been under the threat of the COVID-19 contagion. There's been much media coverage of the dangers in air travel because of the close proximity of passengers, an

A troop of monkeys in India attacked a medical official and snatched away blood samples of patients who had tested positive for the novel coronavirus, authorities said on Friday.