WORLD

United Nations | Xinhua | UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called for joint efforts to advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). He made the appeal in a video message to a high-level virtual meeting of the Group of Friends of the Global Development Initiative. “We are fast approaching the mid-point …

Rio De Janeiro, Brazil | Xinhua | Brazil and Argentina must replay their abandoned 2022 World Cup qualifier despite having already secured a place in football’s showpiece tournament, FIFA said on Monday. The decision followed appeals from both countries’ football associations, according to a statement issued by the sport’s governing body. …

Brussels, Belgium | Xinhua | French President Emmanuel Macron believes that a “European political community” should be built that would be broader than the European Union (EU) and would include non-EU nations. He outlined his vision in a speech to the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Monday. “How should we organize …

Los Angeles, US | Xinhua | Disney’s presentation of Marvel’s superhero film “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” took the top spot at the North American box office on its debut weekend with a three-day estimate of 185 million U.S. dollars, according to studio figures released by measurement firm …

Ankara, Turkey | Xinhua | Turkey currently hosts 4,082,693 refugees, 3,762,686 of whom are Syrians, Turkish deputy Interior Minister Ismail Catakli was quoted by daily Hurriyet as saying on Sunday. As many as 323,859 irregular migrants have been deported during the last 5 years, he said. In 2022, a total …

San Salvador, Mexico | Xinhua | Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday said the United States should share the burden of tackling mass immigration from Central America. During his visit to El Salvador, Lopez Obrador stressed that the immigration crisis needed a joint solution. Lopez Obrador and his …

Nairobi, Kenya | Xinhua | Humanitarian agencies on Friday jointly appealed for 39.5 million U.S. dollars to scale up humanitarian assistance in Eastern Africa as the worst drought in 40 years looms. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC), the Kenya Red Cross, Ethiopia Red Cross and …

San Francisco, U.S. | Xinhua | In a joint effort to make the web more secure and usable for all, Apple, Google and Microsoft on Thursday announced plans to expand support for a common passwordless sign-in standard created by the FIDO Alliance and the World Wide Web Consortium. The new capability …

Geneva, Switzerland | Xinhua | The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday that almost 15 million deaths globally were directly or indirectly associated with the COVID-19 pandemic by the end of 2021. According to the WHO’s estimates, the full COVID-19 death toll, or “excess mortality,” was approximately 14.9 million between …

United Nations | Xinhua | China is firmly opposed to NATO provocating bloc confrontations around the world, a Chinese envoy to the United Nations said Thursday during the Security Council briefing on Ukraine. “Clinging to the anachronistic doctrine of security and keen to provoke bloc confrontations and create tensions in Europe …