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Macau,
Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday congratulated Joe Biden on winning the U.S. presidential election after weeks of holding out. Putin’s message to Biden came a day after the Electoral College confirmed
One-and-a-half-meter-society has been voted the Dutch word of the year by a (social) distance. Anderhalvemetersamenleving, a compound noun describing life under the Dutch government’s 1.5-meter social distancing requirement, was the runaway
As Canadians, Britons and Americans begin getting immunized with a German-developed vaccine against coronavirus, pressure is building on the European Medicines Agency to approve the shot made by Pfizer Inc.
The British and Irish prime ministers have signed The Joint Declaration of Peace which they hope will end 25 years of bombing and murder in Northern Ireland. After nearly two years’
Germany’s health minister demanded that the European Union’s regulatory agency work faster to approve a coronavirus vaccine and bring an end to the suffering on the continent, while other officials
Rescuers in China were searching yesterday for five sailors missing after a collision between two ships at the mouth of the Yangtze River that left at least three dead. State broadcaster
Hayley Orlinsky has made so many bracelets, looping colorful rubber bands over her thumb and index finger again and again, that she no longer must watch her hands. The spunky 7-year-old
The last manned space mission to the Moon is on its way back to Earth, bringing to an end the US programme of lunar exploration. The two Apollo 17 astronauts, Eugene
Eager for a live music show after months of social distancing, more than 1,000 Barcelona residents gathered to participate in a medical study to evaluate the effectiveness of same-day coronavirus
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday said it would be a mistake “to go back to business as usual with Iran,” signaling Israeli resistance to an expected push by President-elect
A drone has been converted into a flying flamethrower in central China in a fiery campaign to eradicate more than 100 wasp nests. Blue Sky Rescue, a volunteer group that conducts
The Macau SAR government held a memorial ceremony yesterday to mourn the 300,000 victims of the Nanjing Massacre. Nearly 300 people commemorated the event at the Security Forces Higher School in
Up to 30,000 Post Office workers could lose their jobs over the next 18 months, Consignia, the company which runs the service, has announced. The company previously said it was to
Pfizer Inc. said some documents it had submitted to Europe’s top drug regulator regarding its Covid-19 vaccine had been accessed in a cyber-attack on the agency. The U.S. drugmaker and German
Portugal’s immigration chief quit yesterday after an outcry over the death of a Ukrainian man suspected of being tortured by officials before dying in custody at Lisbon airport. The Interior
Britain’s foreign minister said yesterday that negotiations on a trade deal with the European Union will reach a “moment of finality” this weekend, with both sides assessing chances of an
Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Germans to rein in Christmas celebrations, making an unusually emotional appeal as the country’s soft shutdown fails to slow the coronavirus spread.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signaled he’s interested in resolving differences with U.S. President-elect Joe Biden, a vocal critic, as the Turkish government finds itself increasingly
China and Nepal jointly announced a new official height for Mount Everest, ending a discrepancy between the two nations. The new height of
The Soviets have opened a new phase in space exploration with the launch of the world’s biggest space station, Mir. The successful launch of Mir comes just over three weeks after
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