Gabrielle Reyes

The South Pacific island nation of Tonga entered a Chinese coronavirus lockdown on Wednesday expected to last at least 48 hours after health officials in the remote kingdom detected Tonga's first-ever community transmission of the disease on Tuesday in two port workers, Reuters reported.

Massive amounts of medical waste produced by the Chinese coronavirus pandemic have accumulated worldwide and pose an increasing "threat" to global public health, the World Health Organization (W.H.O.

Local Communist Party officials in eastern China's Hangzhou city confirmed 24 new daily cases of the Chinese coronavirus within the community on Monday, China's official state-run press agency Xinhua reported.

Kenya Airways says it plans to stop transporting monkeys on behalf of a Mauritius-based primate farm after a recent such shipment suffered an escape of four cynomolgus macaques while in transit in Pennsylvania to a U.S.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will travel to Kyiv on February 3 where he will hold bilateral talks with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, amid recent political tension between Ukraine and Russia, Reuters reported on Monday.

Tokyo's population decreased in 2021 for the first time in 26 years due, in part, to increased remote work availability during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic that encouraged people to leave the crowded metropolis, Bloomberg reported Monday.

The 2022 Winter Olympics — set to take place in Beijing from February 4 to February 20 — will "relieve anxieties felt about the pandemic," China's state-run Global Timesclaimed in an op-ed published Sunday, referring to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, which originated in central China's Wuhan

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A military court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (D.R. Congo) sentenced 51 people to death on Saturday for their involvement in the killings of two U.N.

Researchers in eastern China's Suzhou city claim they have successfully developed an artificial intelligence system capable of monitoring the growth of animal embryos inside an artificial womb, the South China Morning Post reported Monday.

Rahul Gandhi — a member of India's left-wing opposition party, the Indian National Congress (INC) — asked "When will we get back India’s territory that has been occupied by China?" in a post on Twitter Thursday considered by some to be directed toward India's ruling, right-wing Bharatiya Janata

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Rwandaissued a federal mandate this week requiring all citizens and residents of the country to show proof of full Chinese coronavirus vaccination before they are allowed into any public spaces or events, Rwanda's New Times newspaper reported Thursday.

Some Afghans starving amid Afghanistan's dire economic fallout — a direct byproduct of the Taliban's seizure of the country's government last August — have been forced to sell their "children and kidneys" in desperate bids to earn money for food, Sky News reported Friday.

Thousands of men have rioted across the Indian state of Bihar this week — setting fire to empty passenger trains and disrupting the services of several rail lines — to express their anger over recent changes to an Indian Railways employee entrance exam they perceived as unfair, Reuters reported

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North Korea will assume the presidency of the United Nations (U.N.)'s Conference on Disarmament from May 30 to June 24 as part of a rotational system that assigns the leadership role to each of the conference's member states for one month in alphabetical order, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency

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Philippine Senator Manny Pacquiao said Thursday he plans to "file a Senate resolution" asking the Philippine federal government not to impose a Chinese coronavirus vaccine mandate on its public, the Philippine news outlet ABS-CBN reported.

World Health Organization (W.H.O.) staffers based at the organization's Western Pacific headquarters in Manila recently accused the region's W.H.O. chief, Takeshi Kasai, of blaming a rise in coronavirus cases in some Asian countrieson their populations' "lack of capacity due to their inferior

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Health officials in Tianjin, China — which has been locked down since January 9 — confirmed on Thursday the detection of four new, locally transmitted Chinese coronavirus cases "caused by accidental exposure" to the virus inside a governemnt-run quarantine facility, the Global Times reported

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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday "urged" El Salvador's government to rescindthe legal tender status it bestowed to Bitcoin, a type of cryptocurrency, in September 2021, indicating that its failure to do so could hinder El Salvador's intention of securing a future loan from the

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Saudi Arabia's government reopened all of the Kingdom's elementary schools and kindergartens on Sunday after a nearly two-year-long suspension of in-person learning for children aged 5 to 11 due to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported.

Rival ethnic tribes in Indonesia's West Papua province clashedin the early morning hours of Tuesday, sparking a nightclub fire that burned 17 people "alive," BenarNews reported, adding that an 18th victim died from stab wounds sustained in the fighting.