London [UK], February 27 (ANI/Xinhua) Another 8,523 people in Britain have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total number of coronavirus cases in the country to 4,163,085, according to official figures released Friday.
Santiago [Chile], February 27 (ANI/Xinhua) Chile's Health Ministry on Friday reported 4,586 new COVID-19 infections and 90 deaths in the last 24 hours, for accumulative 816,929 cases and 20,400 deaths.
Washington [US], February 26 (ANI): Former United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback on Friday lauded the Dutch Parliament's decision to declare the atrocities faced by the Uyghur community in Xinjiang as genocide.
Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia], February 26 (ANI/Xinhua): Malaysia reported 2,253 new COVID-19 infections, the health ministry said on Friday, bringing the national total to 295,951.
Manila [Philippines], February 26 (ANI/Xinhua): The Department of Health (DOH) of the Philippines reported on Friday 2,651 new COVID-19 cases, the highest daily increase since October 17 last year, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the Southeast Asian country to 571,327.
California [US], February 26 (ANI/Xinhua): The California authority reported Thursday that the United States' most populous state had 50,991 deaths from COVID-19, about one-tenth of the U.S. total from the pandemic.
Geneva [Switzerland], February 25 (ANI): Despite reports and testimonies of human rights violations emerging from Xinjiang and Hong Kong, China on Wednesday continued to deny the West's condemnation for Beijing's international actions.
Athens [Grecce], February 25 (ANI): December 2020, European Union (EU) landmark trade deal - the Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) with China, that aims to liberalise trade between Beijing and Brussels, may prove to be a dangerous move for Europe.
Kinshasa [Congo], February 25 (ANI/Xinhua): The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) now requires accredited diplomats to notify the relevant authorities in advance before travelling through the country's provinces.
Jakarta [Indonesia], February 25 (ANI/Sputnik): Landslides have hit a gold mine in the Indonesian province of Central Sulawesi leaving at least five people dead and 70 more missing, Head of Provincial Disaster Management Agency Datu Pamusu Tombolotutu told the Xinhua news agency on Thursday.
Peshawar [Pakistan], February 25 (ANI): In China's debt-trap diplomacy, Pakistan is struggling to repay loans for power projects under President Xi Jinping's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and seeks to reschedule as much as USD 22 billion in outstanding credits.
New York [US], February 24 (ANI): The Chinese government has increased its "groundless prosecutions" with long prison sentences for Uyghurs and other minority communities in recent years in China's Xinjiang province, according to the Human Rights Watch (HRW).