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Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA |    Lithuania has made huge progress in the two decades since the last official visit by Jacques Chirac in 2001, visiting President Emmanuel Macron said here on Monday, referring to one of his predecessors. “Thank you for the warm welcome during this difficult time. We try …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA |   The leader of Britain’s main opposition party, Labour’s Keir Starmer, has for the first time moved ahead of Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a major opinion poll Sunday. The Opinium poll for the Observer newspaper has given Starmer a four-point lead over Johnson. In a …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA |    U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Sunday that there’s a chance she and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin could reach an agreement on the next COVID-19 relief package. “I trust Secretary Mnuchin to represent something that can reach a solution and I believe we can …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA |   United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday expressed his great concern over the latest Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, calling on both sides to immediately stop fighting. “The secretary-general is extremely concerned over the fresh resumption of hostilities along the line of contact in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone. …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA |   The 2020 G20 Leaders’ Summit will be held virtually on Nov. 21 to 22, chaired by Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabia’s G20 presidency said in a statement early Monday. The statement said the Saudi G20 presidency will “build on the success …

United Nations | XINHUA | United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Saturday that a nuclear war cannot be won and must not be fought. “The use of nuclear weapons would affect all states, meaning that all states have a responsibility to ensure that such deadly armaments are never used again …

Washington, US | XINHUA | U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Saturday that he is nominating Amy Coney Barrett, a conservative federal appellate judge, for the Supreme Court. “She is a woman of unparalleled achievement, towering intellect, sterling credentials, and unyielding loyalty to the Constitution,” Trump said of Barrett from the …

  London, UK | BBC  |  Singer-songwriter Michael Kiwanuka has won the 2020 Mercury Prize for his soul-searching third record, Kiwanuka. A lush, immersive album of politicised soul, it sees the star exploring themes of self-doubt, faith and civil rights. Released last November, Kiwanuka beat best-sellers like Dua Lipa’s Future …

Madrid, Spain | XINHUA | FC Barcelona striker Leo Messi on Friday launched a stinging criticism of the club’s Board of Directors for their treatment of Luis Suarez. Messi’s fresh attack comes after he was forced into a U-turn following his request to leave Barca this summer, but issued a …

Sydney, Australia | XINHUA | Any amount of alcohol consumption during pregnancy can have a significant impact on a child’s brain development, leading to anxiety, depression, and poor attention in youth, a new research from Australia’s University of Sydney said. Published on Friday, researchers from the university’s Matilda Center for …