El Salvadordebuted a public service announcement (PSA) on Monday urging citizens of the Central American country to attain an "ideal weight" through a healthy diet and exercise to reduce the chance of developing complications from a possible Chinese coronavirus infection.
South Africa's government recently erected four separate checkpoints along its border with Zimbabwe in an effort to detect and arrest "hundreds of undocumented Zimbabweans" who have crossed into South Africa illegally in recent days, the online newspaper New Zimbabwe reported on Tuesday.
Children from low-income families worldwide will need "seven to eight years to recover and return to pre-COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus] child poverty levels" according to a recently published report by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the Latin American news site Infobae reported
Japan's federal government is allegedly planning to limit exports of artificial intelligence (A.I.)-powered facial recognition software to China to prevent Beijing from using such technology to "surveil and persecute" ethnic minorities in China, particularly in its westernmost region of
Thousands of South Africans celebrated Christmas in Johannesburg and Cape Town this week despite a recent surge in omicron cases.
China, the world's top producer of magnesium, has severely limited production of the metal hardener — used across the aluminum industries — since September, throwing global supply chains into disarray and threatening to further disrupt worldwide trade through 2022.
The Czech village of Poniklá has produced Christmas ornaments made by hand from blown-glass beads since the early 20th century. The practice continues to thrive today after surviving decades of communism that nationalized the Czech glass-making industry from about 1948-1989
South Korea's federal government ordered Chinese coronavirus patients currently receiving treatment for their symptoms in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) nationwide to vacate their beds immediately on Wednesday in an effort to ease a pandemic-induced hospital bed shortage across the country, the
Nigeria's federal government ceremonially destroyed more than 1 million doses of expired AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccines this week, announcing on Wednesday that the action was designed in part to inspire vaccine-hesitant Nigerians to "have faith" in the nation's state-run coronavirus
The governments of at least 12 countries worldwide have vowed to impose various restrictions on Christmas or New Year’s festivities in an effort to curb Chinese coronavirus transmission over the winter holiday season.
Madagascar Police Minister Gen. Serge Gellé told reporters on Tuesday he swam for 12 consecutive hours in the Indian Ocean from Monday night through Tuesday morning until he reached a shore near Madagascar's Mahambo town after he survived a helicopter crash that left him stranded in the sea,
Coronavirus patients are "80 percent less likely to be hospitalized if they catch the omicron variant, compared with other strains," Bloomberg reported Wednesday, citing a study by South Africa's National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) released on Tuesday.
Chinese Communist Party officials locked down the entire city of Xi'an on Thursday after reportedly just 143 its 13 million residents tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus over the past two weeks, China's official state-run press agency, Xinhua, reported.
A shortage of potato imports from North America will forceMcDonald's Japan to ration french fries at nearly 300 locations nationwide from December 25 to December 30, the company announced Tuesday.
Several residents of Al-Hamdaniya, an Iraqi Christian town, dressed up as Santa Claus to stage an uplifting Christmas parade for local children on Sunday roughly seven years after the community was invaded by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported
Jihadist Fulani terrorists killed at least 45 largely Christian Tiv farmers in central Nigeria's Nasarawa state in recent days, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari confirmed Tuesday.
An Indonesian man recently claimed to have received 16 doses of Chinese coronavirus vaccines on behalf of 14 people for varying sums of money over the past three months, the online news site Coconuts Jakarta reported Tuesday.
An independent café owner in the South Korean port city of Incheon announced plans on Tuesday to remain open 24 hours in the coming days to proteststate-mandated business curfews designed to curb Chinese coronavirus transmission, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported.
A mob of Sikhs beat a man to death inside the Golden Temple, one of the most revered shrines in Sikhism, in Amritsar, India.
Two cobalt salt plants in China's eastern province of Zhejiang halted production on December 10 in response to local Chinese coronavirus "flare-ups," the Global Times reported Thursday, noting the labor suspensions threaten to cause a spike in the prices oflithium-ion batteries for electric
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