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Rome, Italy | Xinhua | Parity between the dollar and the euro may persist for some time, evidence of a dramatic decline in the value of the main European currency. However, a leading economist in Italy has said that if exchange rates remain stable, European businesses will be able to cope. …

Syndey, Australia | Xinhua | Australian researchers have released a report warning that a common form of cancer treatment could lead to a range of fertility problems for women. Oncologists from Monash University and the Peter MacCallum Cancer Center said their pre-clinical trial using mice showed that a medical treatment, known …

Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | A U.S. judge on Thursday ordered the Department of Justice (DOJ) to release a redacted version of the affidavit used to seek the search warrant on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. “I find that the government has met its burden of showing a compelling reason/good …

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) …