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Los Angeles, U.S. | Xinhua | A U.S. investigational HIV vaccine regimen was safe but did not provide protection against HIV acquisition, according to a release of the U.S. National Institute of Health (NIH) on Wednesday. The trial, called HPX3002/HVTN 706 or “Mosaico,” began in 2019 and involved 3,900 volunteers ages …

Geneva, Switzerland | Xinhua | One month after Argentina won the Qatar World Cup, FIFA announced early figures of the tournament, showing around five billion people have engaged with the World Cup. “On social media, according to Nielsen, there have been 93.6 million posts across all platforms, with a 262 billion …

United Nations | Xinhua | UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called for investing in people and prioritizing education in his message for the International Day of Education, to be observed on Jan. 24. “Investment is critical to achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4,” and education is “the bedrock of societies, economies …

Ankara, Turkey | Xinhua | The Turkish foreign minister on Tuesday slammed as “absurd” a Swedish prosecutor’s decision not to investigate a protest in Stockholm in which Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s puppet was hung. “The decision by the (Swedish) prosecutor’s office not to probe the incident is extremely absurd, and we …

Warsaw, Poland | Xinhua | The European Parliament (EP) should stop criticizing Poland for alleged rule-of-law problems when it has been unable to stop corruption in its own ranks, Poland’s President Andrzej Duda said on Tuesday. According to the Polish Press Agency (PAP), Duda made the comment at the World Economic …

Moscow, Russia | Xinhua | Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that the country’s oil production increased by 2 percent over the past year despite Western sanctions, according to the Kremlin. “I would especially like to talk about the oil and gas sector. Despite the previously mentioned sanctions pressure, oil production …

Children from the poorest households benefit the least from national public education funding United Nations | Xinhua | Only 16 percent of public education funding goes to the poorest 20 percent of learners, while 28 percent goes to the richest 20 percent, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said in a report …

Zagreb, Croatia | Xinhua | Croatian President Zoran Milanovic has said that the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) are engaged in a proxy war against Russia through Ukraine, Croatian media reported on Monday. “Washington and NATO are waging a proxy war against Russia through Ukraine,” Milanovic was …

London, UK | Xinhua | Further strikes were announced by teachers and nurses in the United Kingdom (UK) on Monday, amid the continued cost-of-living crisis and lengthy disputes over pay. If progress is not made in negotiations by the end of January, February will see the most widespread strike so far …

Moscow, Russia | Xinhua | Russia’s budget revenues in 2022 from the oil and gas industry increased by 28 percent or by 2.5 trillion rubles (36.4 billion U.S. dollars) from the previous year, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said Monday. Despite sanctions by unfriendly countries, oil production in Russia amounted …