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United Nations | XINHUA | United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director David Beasley on Thursday urged the rich to help the hungry. “We cannot and we must not surrender, or tell ourselves there is nothing we can do, because millions of people around the world desperately need our help,” …

  United Nations | XINHUA | As global COVID-19 cases surpassed 30 million on Thursday, United Nations (UN) officials again urged the international community to strengthen solidarity and cooperation. The global case count reached 30,003,378, with a total of 942,989 deaths worldwide as of 6:22 pm. local time (2222 GMT), according …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA |   A U.S. judge on Thursday blocked controversial Postal Service changes that have slowed mail delivery nationwide, calling them “a politically motivated attack on the efficiency of the Postal Service” before the presidential election. Judge Stanley Bastian in Yakima, Washington state, said he was issuing a …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA |    United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Thursday that the COVID-19 pandemic is expanding risks to peace everywhere. “It poses an enormous threat to people caught up in conflict, which is why I made an immediate appeal for a global ceasefire,” the UN chief said …

London, UK | XINHUA | British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told a parliamentary committee Wednesday he did not believe the European Union (EU) was negotiating a Brexit deal with Britain in good faith. Johnson spent more than an hour being grilled by the House of Commons Liaison Committee, made up …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA |   The Arab normalization agreements with Israel is “poor play” that serves Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and United States President Donald Trump, a Palestinian official said on Wednesday. Jibril Rajoub, secretary-general of the Central Committee of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah Movement, said that “signing …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA |    United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday called for more efforts to address the global fragilities that the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed. “We must do far more to address the global fragilities that the virus has exposed,” the UN chief told journalists at a hybrid …

San Francisco, US | XINHUA | Apple on Tuesday announced Apple One, a plan to include all of Apple’s subscription services, during its September 2000 event. “With a single subscription, customers in over 100 countries and regions can enjoy their favorite Apple services across their favorite devices, including iPhone, iPad, …

Washington, US | XINHUA | Israel signed on Tuesday normalization accords with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain, but Palestine claimed they will not achieve peace in the Middle East. U.S. President Donald Trump joined Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan and Bahraini …

United Nations | XINHUA | United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called on the international community to get united and find a vaccine that is accessible to all. “As the COVID-19 pandemic has upended our world, we have once again seen that international solidarity is no longer a choice, but …