
The UN has called for greater investment into “the vital resource of water” in its World Water Development Report 2021 published on Monday. According to the...

A newborn in Japan is believed to have contracted COVID-19 from the mother in what may be the first case of mother-to-baby coronavirus transmission in the...
At least 40 people have been killed in another attack in Niger, when a group of armed assailants ravaged several villages in the Tahoua region near...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will join state leaders on Monday to discuss whether a return to a harder lockdown is needed. The move is coming after...

A batch of coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine developed by the Chinese pharmaceutical company, Sinovac has arrived in Cotonou, the economic capital of Benin. Benjamin Hounkpatin, the country’s...
China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs and 21 other departments on Monday jointly issued a circular, requiring further efforts to crack down harder on and rectify illegal...

Australian authorities are planning to evacuate thousands more people on Monday from flood-affected suburbs in Sydney’s west. The country is set for its worst flooding in...
Congolese opposition leader and candidate in Sunday’s presidential election, Guy Brice Parfait Kolelas, has died of COVID-19, according to local media reports. He had been seen...

The number of people in the United Kingdom (UK) experiencing loneliness during the Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has more than doubled since March 2020 in spite of...
The espionage trial of former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig began Monday behind closed doors in a Beijing courtroom. Kovrig’s trial comes less than a week after...