Brazil has become the second country, after the US, to register more than 50,000 deaths from Covid-19. It comes amid growing political unrest and just days after the country confirmed more than one million coronavirus infections. Experts warn that the peak of the outbreak in Brazil is still weeks away. […]
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FILE PHOTO: A medical staff member in protective suit collects a swab from a man for a nucleic acid test at China-Japan Friendship Hospital following new cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infections in Beijing, China June 15, 2020. BEIJING: Beijing will see a “cliff-like” drop in new cases in […]
BEIJING: China banned imports from a top US poultry producer and ordered a Beijing Pepsi factory to close on Sunday (Jun 21) as authorites clamped down on food production and distribution amid a new coronavirus cluster in the capital. Health officials also reported 22 new virus cases in Beijing, where […]
China has accused Indian troops of a “deliberate provocation” in its first official comments on Monday’s deadly clash at a disputed Himalayan border. Foreign ministry spokesman Lijian Zhao said the troops had crossed into Chinese territory and attacked, triggering “fierce physical conflicts”. However he did not give details of any […]
ATLANTA: Thousands marched through US cities on Friday (Jun 19) in Juneteenth observances marking the abolition of slavery more than a century and a half ago, an occasion freighted with special resonance this year amid America’s reckoning with its legacy of racism. Capping nearly four weeks of protests and national […]
India has vowed to defend its border with military force if necessary, after 20 of its soldiers were killed in violence with Chinese troops on Monday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi says no foreign soldiers are inside Indian borders and no territory has been lost. China has not released any information […]
GUANGZHOU, China: The coronavirus has disrupted supply chains and demand across the global economy, but it is the prospect of Europe becoming a casualty in the US-China tech war that keeps the president of the European Chamber in China “awake at night”. “When two elephants dance it’s hard to stand […]
WASHINGTON: United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met China’s top diplomat, Yang Jiechi, in Hawaii on Wednesday (Jun 17), in high-level face-to-face talks that have become rare amid tensions between the two strategic rivals. The world’s two largest economies have been at loggerheads over the handling of the coronavirus […]
BEIJING: China said on Thursday (Jun 18) it has no intention of interfering in the US elections, responding to US President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, John Bolton, who has said that Trump had sought Chinese President Xi Jinping’s help to win re-election. Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian […]
WASHINGTON: Donald Trump pleaded with China’s leader Xi Jinping for help to win re-election in 2020, the US president’s former national security advisor John Bolton writes in an explosive new behind-the-scenes book, according to excerpts published on Wednesday (Jun 18). Bolton alleges in a blistering critique that Trump’s focus on […]