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Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | Farmers across the world must connect agriculture with the protection of biodiversity and the environment to have a sustainable food supply system in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said Tuesday. “Biodiversity is vital to improving agricultural …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | U.S. President Donald Trump celebrated the completion of 200 miles (around 320 km) of border wall along the border with Mexico during his visit to the southwestern state of Arizona on Tuesday. The president flew to Yuma, a city in southwest Arizona, on Air Force One …

  Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | A Chinese military spokesperson on Wednesday expressed strong opposition to a U.S. plan to deploy intermediate-range missiles in the Asia Pacific region, saying that China will never sit idle if such a plan proceeds. Wu Qian, a spokesperson for the Ministry of National Defense, …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday revised down its forecast for the global economy amid the mounting COVID-19 fallout, projecting a 4.9-percent contraction in 2020. The latest projection is 1.9 percentage points below the World Economic Outlook (WEO) forecast released in April, indicating a …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Tuesday that the United States made it clear at a meeting held in Vienna that it has not yet decided on whether to extend the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START). “We did not feel that the Americans …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | An international research team suggests the use of ultraviolet light indoors to reduce the transmission of coronavirus, the northern Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) said on Tuesday. The recommendation is included in a study published in the journal ACS Nano, written by researchers from the …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | The volume of global merchandise trade would shrink by around 18.5 percent year-on-year in the second quarter of this year, the World Trade Organization (WTO) said Tuesday. “The fall in trade we are now seeing is historically large — in fact, it would be the steepest …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | The United States “is too broken to fight” the novel coronavirus, and “no other developed country is doing so badly,” a columnist for The New York Times wrote on Monday. “Graphs of the coronavirus curves in Britain, Canada, Germany and Italy look like mountains, with steep …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | The British government unveiled Monday a package of measures to support businesses for the agriculture, food and drink industry, which have been greatly suffering from the COVID-19 pandemic. Dubbed as “bounce back” plan, it introduces a new program of physical and virtual events that have been …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order suspending the issuance of a number of certain employment-based visas through the end of 2020, including the H-1B which are used for highly skilled workers and common in the tech industry. “Temporary workers are often accompanied …