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Scott Simon speaks with Robert Daly, director of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States, about why businesses aren’t pulling out of China over its record of human rights abuses.

South Africa’s major cities are seeing a dramatic rise in COVID-19 cases driven by the omicron variant.

Greece, where 62 percent of people are fully vaccinated, has started collecting monthly fines from those who refuse the shots. Austria is also taking similar measures.

With little regard for joints or bones, bare-chested men hurl their bodies at a hard floor and contort their limbs to strike a heavy rubber ball with their hips. They are practitioners of the ancient sport of Pok ta Pok,

A centuries-old sculpture of two Hindu gods was re-installed at its temple in the Nepali capital Kathmandu on Saturday, nearly 40 years after it was stolen and later emerged in the United States. The stone statue of the gods Laxmi

Acting German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during a press conference after the Minister Presidents’ Conference on the coronavirus pandemic at the Federal Chancellery. John Macdougall/AFP-Pool/dpa Outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for solidarity in the fight against the spread

US President Joe Biden, shown here meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky in September, has vowed to protect Ukraine from Russian attack Washington (AFP) – US President Joe Biden said Friday he would make it “very, very difficult” for Russia to

More than 400 people who died of COVID were secretly interred in a mass grave on the outskirts of the city of Iquitos. Families are demanding a proper burial for their loved ones. (Image credit: Angela Ponce for NPR)

A marked rise has been seen in the number of children admitted to hospital in South Africa – the epicentre of the new coronavirus Omicron variant – but cases are “mild”, a public health expert has said.

Residents flee in panic as Indonesia’s Semeru volcano erupts  Aljazeera.comView Full Coverage on Google News