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In recent news, Beijing has secured the hosting rights for 2027 World Athletics Championship. The news was confirmed by the World Athletics Council on Wednesday. The final decision was taken in the 234th meeting of the council at Glasgow.…

Beijing: A gas explosion in an apartment building in north China's Tianjin has left 11 people injured and three others missing on Tuesday, local authorities said. The explosion, which took place at around 7:15 a.m. in Beichen District,…

Beijing: Ukraine's GDP will shrink at least 35 per cent this year due to the conflict with Russia, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported, citing Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal. While addressing the Ukraine Recovery Conference…

New Delhi: China has now started rolling blackouts in Beijing and Shanghai, metropolises home to 48 million people, as the country struggles with crippling power shortages that have hit key factories in a further threat to the economy,…

New Delhi: One of the world's top epidemiologists admits he first heard about the pandemic outbreak in Wuhan more than two weeks before it was disclosed to global health bodies, Daily Mail reported. The revelation by Ian Lipkin, a…

Beijing: China is witnessing a resurgence of COVID-19 under the impact of the highly transmissible Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2. This is the most widespread domestic contagion since the virus outbreak in Wuhan since December 2019. But…

Beijing: A Beijing-based vet, who was confirmed as China's first human infection case with Monkey B Virus (BV), has died from the virus, but his close contacts are safe from it, for now, Global Times reported. The 53-year-old male vet,…

Beijing: Chinese health authority said on Wednesday that it received reports of 101 new confirmed Covid-19 cases in the Chinese mainland on Tuesday, including 98 locally-transmitted cases and three imported ones. Eighty-nine of the 98…

Beijing: The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Friday ordered the closure of the US Consulate General in the south-western city of Chengdu as a retaliatory move against Washington's decision to close the Asian giant's mission in Houston. In a…

Beijing: Chinese health authority said on Sunday that it received reports of 16 new confirmed Covid-19 cases on the Chinese mainland on Saturday, of which 13 were domestically transmitted. All domestically-transmitted cases were reported…