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Violent crime in U.S. cities surged to record levels as the nation was struggling in the COVID-19 pandemic. Experts said deteriorating security could affect midterm elections next year.Statistics from the Federal Bureau of Investigation show the murder rate surged by 25 percent in 2020 — the first time the United …

Congolese families shelter in the grounds of a church being used as a temporary site for internally displaced people in Drodro, Ituri. © UNHCR/John Wessels UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, on Friday announced that the May 31 deadly attacks by the armed group Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) left 57 people dead and 5,800 …

By XU WEI A China-Europe freight train bound for Almaty, Kazakhstan sets out from Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, on May 25, 2019. [Photo/xjdaily.com] President has talks with Azerbaijani, Kazakh, Dominican Republic leaders China and Kazakhstan should foster new growth engines in bilateral cooperation in fields such as green energy, …

The Nigerian government on Wednesday expressed doubts about Twitter’s mission in the country, accusing the U.S. technology company of double standards and supporting the secessionists in the west African country. Information and Culture Minister Lai Mohammed took a swipe at Twitter after it deleted a tweet by President Muhammadu Buhari …

Africa China Review Reporter The World Health Organization (WHO) validated on Tuesday the CoronaVac Covid-19 vaccine developed by Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech for emergency use. The good news came at a time developing countries are faced with a huge Vaccine deficit. In Africa alone, less than 5% of the …

Photo: CFP Streets in the eastern DR Congo city of Goma returned to life on Tuesday, five days after residents fled following warnings that the nearby Nyiragongo volcano could erupt again. In the city center, the streets were clogged with traffic, including hefty four-wheel-drive vehicles driven by NGOs, while the …

Djoomart Otorbaev The parking lot of a high-speed railway station in Nanjing, east China’s Jiangsu Province, February 12, 2021. /Getty In 2008, the first high-speed trains began running on the Beijing–Tianjin intercity railway, which opened during the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Similarly, new technical “surprises” are now actively tested for the upcoming Beijing …

By Paul Ash Africa needs to boost its own vaccine manufacturing capability to combat future pandemics, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Sunday when he announced the country was moving to adjusted level 2 of the lockdown. He said over the past seven days, there had been a daily average of …

By Xin Ping The White House in Washington DC. [Photo/Agencies] The United States has, without any evidence, accused China of forcing residents of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region into “forced labor”, and imposed sanctions on some Chinese officials and other entities, which China has rightly and strongly denounced as “politically …

China’s achievements in ending absolute poverty and defeating COVID-19 under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC) are “a beacon” for the people of the world, a senior official of the Communist Party of Britain (CPB) has said. “The achievements of the Communist Party of China are not …