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Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA |    U.S. President Donald Trump was nominated for a second term on Monday at the 2020 Republican National Convention (RNC) in Charlotte, North Carolina, which has been scaled back due to the coronavirus pandemic. Trump arrived at the Charlotte Convention Center on Monday afternoon, where over …

Washington, US | XINHUA |  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) on Sunday for investigational convalescent plasma for the treatment of COVID-19 in hospitalized patients. It is part of the agency’s ongoing efforts to fight COVID-19. Based on scientific evidence available, the FDA …

🇫🇷 PSG 0 🆚 Bayern 🇩🇪  1 (59′) #UCLfinal 🏆 1974 🏆 1975 🏆 1976 🏆 2001 🏆 2013 🏆 2020 Lisbon, Portugal | THE INDEPENDENT & XINHUA |  Bayern Munich have just won their sixth European Cup final after edging Paris Saint-Germain 1-0 at Estadio da Luz, in Lisbon. Many missed chances …

🇫🇷 PSG 0 🆚 Bayern 🇩🇪  1 (59′) #UCLfinal 2nd half Lisbon, Portugal | THE INDEPENDENT & XINHUA |  Bayern Munich took a second half lead against Paris Saint-Germain as they battled for the title of the 65th UEFA Champions League at Estadio da Luz, in Lisbon. The many missed chances characterized …

New York, US | XINHUA | U.S. stocks eked out modest gains in the past week as Wall Street digested the Federal Reserve’s meeting minutes and a slew of economic data. For the week ending Friday, the Dow was roughly unchanged, the S&P 500 rose 0.7 percent, and the Nasdaq …

Santiago, Colombia | XINHUA | The economic crisis caused by the novel coronavirus pandemic is the “most synchronized” in history and its prospects of recovery is quite uncertain, Colombian economist Jose Antonio Ocampo said on Saturday during a virtual conference. “It is much faster than the Great Depression of the …

Los Angeles, US | XINHUA | The video-sharing social networking company TikTok confirmed Saturday that it will file a lawsuit against the Trump administration over an executive order banning any U.S. transactions with its parent company ByteDance. ByteDance announced later that the lawsuit will be delivered next Monday. Los Angeles-based …

Rome, Italy | XINHUA | Plants are the source of 98 percent of the air humans breathe and 80 percent of the food that people eat, so keeping them free of diseases and pests is crucial to human survival, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said Friday. In …

Moscow, Russia | XINHUA | The United States has no rights to restore United Nations (UN) sanctions on Iran as it has withdrawn from the Iran nuclear deal and failed to honor its obligations, the Russian Foreign Ministry has said. The United States continues its “dangerous” steps in the UN …

  Geneva, Switzerland | XINHUA |  The World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday that he hopes the COVID-19 pandemic will last less than two years. “Hoping we can have additional tools like a vaccine, I think we can finish it in a shorter time than …