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  Jerusalem, Israel | XINHUA |    Israel and the United Nations will establish a joint regional support office in Israel to manage states of emergency, the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology said Tuesday. According to the ministry, the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) has selected the Earth …

Kyiv, Ukraine | XINHUA |    Ukraine and Poland intend to cooperate to further deepen Ukraine’s relations with the European Union and boost bilateral economic cooperation, the two countries’ presidents, Volodymyr Zelensky and Andrzej Duda, said following their meeting in Kiev on Monday. According to a joint statement released on the …

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | XINHUA |   Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said here on Tuesday that the so-called Indo-Pacific strategy proposed by the United States would undermine peace and development prospect in East Asia. In response to a question on the impact of the U.S. Indo-Pacific strategy …

Warsaw, Poland | XINHUA |   Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki went into self-quarantine on Tuesday after contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus. “Due to having contact with a person infected with COVID-19, I will go into quarantine according to all standard …

United Nations ,USA | XINHUA |   United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Monday that 2.99 billion U.S. dollars is needed in 2021 to fully implement the mandates entrusted to the organization. “To fully implement the mandates entrusted to us, we will require a total of 2.99 billion U.S. dollars, …

London, UK | XINHUA |    British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday announced a new three-level COVID-19 alert system that will be implemented across England, with Liverpool moved to the highest tier as the level being decided according to local infection rates. Outlining the new strategy, Johnson said it simplify …

Tokyo, Japan | XINHUA |   The approval rating for Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s Cabinet dropped from last month when Suga took office after his predecessor Shinzo Abe stepped down for health reasons, a nationwide poll showed on Monday. According to the survey conducted by Japan’s public broadcaster NHK between …

WASHINGTON, USA | XINHUA |   White House physician Sean Conley said on Monday that President Donald Trump has tested negative for COVID-19, 12 days after the president tested positive with the virus. Trump has tested negative “on consecutive days” and is “not infectious to others,” according to a memo from …

LATAKIA, Syria, | XINHUA |   Charred trees and burnt soil filled the horizon while white smoke filled the air, telling the story of wildfires that engulfed areas in Syria over the past 48 hours, turning the once picture-perfect sceneries into sad stories of dead crops. Farmers and families are in …

Zagreb, Croatia | XINHUA |   A police officer was wounded in a shooting on Monday morning outside the Croatian government building here, while the suspected gunman has fled the scene and committed suicide, according to local police. The shooting occured at around 8 a.m. local time (0600 GMT) at St. …