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A traffic police officer stands near a billboard welcoming Chinese President Xi Jinping, in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, January 2020. Photo: AP
Asia News 04 Feb 2021
Before Monday's coup in Myanmar, the country's relations with China already were complicated by Chinese...
White House press secretary Jen Psaki speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Monday, February 1. Photo: AP
World News 03 Feb 2021
A military coup in Myanmar and a mass crackdown on dissidents in Russia are presenting early tests for the Biden...
Myanmar nationals in Japan hold up portraits of Aung San Suu Kyi and shout slogans during a protest held in front of the United Nations University in Tokyo, February 01, 2021. Photo: EPA-EFE
The United States led governments around the world in calling for the restoration of Myanmar's democracy on Monday...
A security guard waves away journalists outside the hotel where a team of experts from the World Health Organization are quarantined in Wuhan in central China’s Hubei province on Thursday, January 28. Photo: AP
COVID-19World News 29 Jan 2021
A WORLD Health Organization team emerged from quarantine in the Chinese city of Wuhan on Thursday to start field...
A file photo shows medical staff attending to a patient with coronavirus in the intensive care unit at the Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, England, May 5, 2020. Photo: AP
COVID-19World News 28 Jan 2021
More than 100,000 people have died in the United Kingdom after contracting the coronavirus, a year into Europe's...
People sit on swings in a park in Goyang, South Korea, Wednesday, January 27. Photo: AP
COVID-19World News 28 Jan 2021
South Korea has reported 599 new coronavirus cases, the highest in 10 days, as health workers scramble to slow...
A Starbucks coffee truck serves students and staff in the University of Washington campus Monday, January 25. Photo: AP
World News 28 Jan 2021
Starbucks' recovery slowed at the end of last year as US coronavirus cases mounted, but the coffee titan says it's...
The logo of Microsoft is displayed outside its European headquarters in Paris, Friday, January 8. Photo: AP
As the pandemic raged through the US, Microsoft's business continued chugging ahead and beat Wall Street...
A woman cycles past by an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Wednesday, January 27. Photo: AP
COVID-19World News 28 Jan 2021
Stock markets are down Wednesday as investors focus on the US Federal Reserve's policy meeting and the outlook for...
Ambulance personnel stand waiting as more than a dozen ambulances queue waiting to hand over COVID-19 patients to medics at the Santa Maria hospital in Lisbon, January 22. Photo: AP
COVID-19World News 27 Jan 2021
In the first week of December, Portugal's prime minister gave his pandemic-weary people an early Christmas gift:...
Norwegian Borge Brende, left, president and member of the Managing Board of the World Economic Forum speaks to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres via videolink during the Davos Forum, in Cologny near Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, January 25. Photo: AP
COVID-19World News 27 Jan 2021
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned global leaders Monday that the world is not only facing a COVID-19...
People walk along pedestrian crossings in Tokyo, Monday, January 25. Photo: AP
COVID-19World News 27 Jan 2021
Four times as many jobs were lost last year due to the coronavirus pandemic as during the worst part of the global...

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