Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin has stated that in its report on the origins of the coronavirus, the US intelligence community will try to confirm predetermined findings and shift responsibility for the COVID-19 pandemic. The stateme...

UK Labour Party Shadow Home Secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said on 23 August that the Conservative government was “asleep at the wheel” on the evacuation of Afghan assistants despite knowing in advance that the United States had set a deadline for th...

China says it is ready to deepen “friendly and cooperative” relations with Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul. The Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a regular press briefing on Monday that China welco...

Russia’s ambassador to the United States said Washington had asked 24 Russian diplomats to leave the country by Sept. 3 after their visas expired. Anatoly Antonov did not say whether the U.S. request was prompted by any particular dispute, and ther...

Former US President Donald Trump says he tried to "uphold the integrity and honesty of elections” when he pointed to voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. Trump released a statement on Saturday in response to the House Oversight and Refor...

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday (Jul 1) said COVID-19 cases were on the rise again in Europe after two months of decline and warned a new wave would come “unless we remain disciplined”. “Last week, the number of cases rose by 10 per...

Russian President Vladimir Putin says the United States is using the dollar as an instrument to wage economic and political war. Speaking at an annual economic forum in St Petersburg, Putin said Moscow is pondering to settle its oil and gas transac...

President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that hacking allegations which some have linked to Russia were an attempt to provoke a political dispute ahead of a summit with U.S. President Joe Biden on June 16, Interfax news agency reported. He also said...

The United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said on Thursday that Israeli deadly strikes on Gaza may constitute war crimes if they are shown to be disproportionate. Bachelet, opening a special session of the UN Human Rights Council, cal...

China on Thursday accused the Biden administration of playing politics and shirking its responsibility in calling for a renewed investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic that was first detected in China in late 2019. Foreign Minist...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the Biden administration will move forward with plans to reopen the US Consulate General in Al-Quds (Jerusalem) which will resume diplomatic ties with the Palestinians in the West Bank. “The United States w...

US President Joe Biden has announced that from now on, Washington recognizes the actions of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century against the Armenians as a genocide, despite earlier objections from Turkey. “Beginning on April 24, 1915, with...

Pyongyang’s last missile launch towards the Sea of Japan was in self-defense amid joint US-South Korean military exercises, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Saturday. “This time, the test launch of a tactical guided missile of a ne...

The Pentagon has agreed to hold thousands of detained unaccompanied migrant children at two US military facilities in Texas as President Joe Biden has come under mounting criticism over his handling of humanitarian crisis at the at the US-Mexico bo...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he believes Washington’s unilateral withdrawal from the nuclear deal proves the violation of international law and its inability to reach agreements with other countries. “The United States withdrew from t...

Commander of the US European Command said despite sanctions imposed on Moscow, Russia remains an existential threat to the US and its European allies. At the Air Force Association’s Aerospace Warfare Symposium, Air Force General Tod D. Wolters said...

Treating China as a “strategic rival” of the United States is a misjudgement that could lead to mistakes, China’s ambassador to the United States said in a speech to an online forum. Since the Trump administration defined China as a strategic riva...

World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for Europe said the continent is at present facing a “pandemic paradox” as vaccines are rolled out while new strains are being discovered. Hans Kluge stressed on Thursday the need to urgently inocul...

Janet Yellen, US President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for Treasury Secretary, on Tuesday told lawmakers she expected to quickly launch a review of US sanctions policy if she and her top deputy were confirmed for their posts. Yellen told members of t...

A top GOP senator says outgoing US President Donald Trump will be “remembered for chaos and misery” if he refuses to throw his support behind the bipartisan effort to address repercussions of the Covid-19 pandemic. Pennsylvania Republican Senat...