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Tehran, Iran | XINHUA | Iranian President Hassan Rouhani celebrated on Wednesday the Iranian diplomacy’s “historic” success against the U.S. efforts at the UN Security Council to restore UN sanctions on Iran. “I don’t know of any case in history where the U.S. submitted a draft resolution in the UN …

Phnom Penh, Cambodia | XINHUA | Protectionism and unilateralism from the U.S. are sowing a “selfish” idea among other countries and go against the current of multilateralism and globalization, Kin Phea, director general of the International Relations Institute of Cambodia, has told Xinhua. Speaking at a roundtable discussion under the …

Beijing, China | XINHUA | The Chinese military opposes and is not afraid of the U.S. side’s recent escalating provocations against China, a spokesman said Thursday. Wu Qian, a spokesman for the Ministry of National Defense, made the comments at a press conference in response to a media question about …

Tehran, Iran | XINHUA | The rejection of U.S. bid in the UN Security Council to take actions to return sanctions against Iran showed U.S.”global isolation,” Iran’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations said in a statement, according to Tasnim news agency on Wednesday. “Today’s deliberations in the UN Security Council …

Khartoum, Sudan | XINHUA | Chairman of Sudan’s Sovereign Council Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan on Tuesday urged the United States to remove Sudan from its list of states sponsoring terrorism. Al-Burhan issued the call while receiving U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo who is on an one-day visit to Sudan, the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Directorate of Public Prosecutions -DPP has revealed that it’s going to demand for the case file in which two Ugandan judges, a lawyer and her husband were sanctioned by the US government for being involved in a child adoption scam. The file is …

Beijing, China | XINHUA | Experts have voiced concerns over the U.S.’ inaction in joining the international community to help Africa amid the pandemic, the continent hit hardest by COVID-19. “The U.S. has basically been missing in action on the global front, which is very heartbreaking for me to see,” …

London, UK | XINHUA | Washington’s so-called “Clean Network” program will “bolster a worrying movement” toward the split of the global internet, said a recent BBC article. “The U.S. government has for a long time criticized other countries for controlling access to the internet … and now we see the …

Washington, US | XINHUA | The U.S. economy saw the sharpest contraction in decades between April and June as the country grappled with the fallout of COVID-19 lockdowns, indicating the depth and severity of the pandemic-induced recession. The U.S. economy contracted at an annual rate of 32.9 percent in the …

Washington, US | XINHUA | U.S. President Donald Trump raised the possibility on Thursday of delaying the country’s presidential election in November, alleging that “universal mail-in voting” will make the 2020 election “the most inaccurate and fraudulent” in history. “It will be a great embarrassment to the USA,” he continued. …