WORLD

Moscow, Russia | XINHUA | Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Tuesday instructing the government to implement a set of national development goals by 2030. The decree published by the Kremlin said the country aims to achieve breakthrough developments, increase its population and raise living standards. Other goals include …

Paris, France | XINHUA | French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday hailed as “historic” a European Union (EU) deal on a post-pandemic recovery fund that would help build a “green and prosperous Europe” and further improve European solidarity. “A historic day for Europe! A massive recovery plan is adopted: a …

London, UK | XINHUA | U.S. stock markets have been “a gold rush” for Chinese companies, but this may come to an end, as the U.S. administration has used its market as a “potential new front in a battle with China,” the British newspaper Daily Telegraph has reported. In May, …

Washington, US | XINHUA | The resurgence of COVID-19 cases across the United States is raising the risk of a double-dip recession if the country is unable to reign in the pandemic, economists have warned. A total of 34 U.S. states have seen increasing rates of COVID-19 infection since the Memorial …

Washington, US | XINHUA | A new nanoparticle vaccine for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has shown hints of protection and immunity by safely eliciting the production of antibodies and antiviral T cell responses in mice and pigtail macaques, according to a new preclinical study published Monday in Science …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called on the international community to promote justice and combat racism in all its manifestations. “Every day, in our work across the world, we must strive to do our part to promote inclusion, justice and dignity. We must combat …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | The chief of the World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday that his organization is deeply concerned about the impact of COVID-19 on indigenous peoples in the Americas, the current epicenter of the pandemic. WHO director-general Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual press conference Monday …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | A phase 2 trial of a COVID-19 vaccine candidate conducted in China has found that the vaccine is safe and induces an immune response, according to a new study published Monday in medical journal The Lancet. The results provide data from a wider group of participants …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | European Parliament (EP) President David Sassoli on Monday urged the European Union (EU) leaders to reach an agreement on a post-coronavirus recovery plan, warning that the EP will not give its consent unless its conditions are met. “We are worried about a future where European solidarity …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | Britain has made “a very bad decision” on the Chinese technology company Huawei, representing “a dark day for China-UK relations,” a senior Chinese diplomat has said. Liu Xiaoming, the Chinese ambassador to Britain, made the statement in an interview with BBC in response to the British …