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Beijing, China | Xinhua | The Fifth Forum on China-Africa Media Cooperation took place on Thursday in a combined online and offline mode, with delegates from the two sides agreeing to further strengthen media cooperation. Huang Kunming, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central …

Kobe Bryant’s widow has been awarded $16m (£13.6m) in damages over leaked graphic photos of the helicopter crash that killed the US basketball star and his daughter in 2020 Los Angeles, U.S. | Xinhua | A jury Wednesday ordered Los Angeles County to pay 31 million U.S. dollars in damages over …

Bali, Indonesia | Xinhua | The World Health Organization and the Group of 20 members warned on Wednesday at a meeting in Indonesia’s Bali of a potential “silent pandemic” of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) triggered by overdosage of drugs and antibiotics. This meeting is a side event of the 3rd G20 Health …

San Fransisco, U.S. | Xinhua | Apple’s self service repair is available on Tuesday for MacBook Air and MacBook Pro notebooks with the M1 family of chips, providing repair manuals and genuine Apple parts and tools through the Apple Self Service Repair Store. Self service repair for iPhone launched earlier this …

United Nations | Xinhua | Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the UN fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises, and strategic partners have reached about 7 million children and adolescents since the ECW became operational in 2017, said the fund in its annual report released Tuesday. Through its strategic partnerships, the …

Tehran, Iran | Xinhua | A recent study shows that by 2019, the United States had engaged in almost 400 wars across the world since its founding in 1776, Iran’s Press TV has reported. Over the past two decades, the U.S. army has dropped a daily average of 46 bombs and …

Rivers drying up and farmlands parched. Water scarcity in Europe is affecting lives and businesses across the continent Brussels, Belgium | Xinhua | Europe is experiencing its worst drought in at least 500 years, with almost two-thirds of the continent in a state of alert or warning, a European Union (EU) …

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | Xinhua | Fitch Solutions on Monday maintained its palm oil average price forecast this year at 5,200 ringgit (1,160 U.S. dollars) per ton, seeing a slight recovery in palm oil prices from its recent decline. The Fitch group unit said in a note, for the remainder of …

Los Angeles, U.S. | Xinhua | U.S. top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci announced Monday he plans to step down from his roles at the end of the year after more than 50 years of public service. Fauci serves as U.S. President Joe Biden’s top medical adviser and the director of …

United Nations | Xinhua | UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Executive Director Catherine Russell on Monday voiced concern over child casualties in the Ukraine conflict. At least 972 children in Ukraine have been killed or injured by violence since the conflict escalated nearly six months ago, an average of over five children …