Bike riders gather for a Freedom and Rights Coalition demonstration to demand an end to COVID-19 restrictions and mandatory vaccination outside the Parliament House building in Wellington, New Zealand on Tuesday. Photo: AFPA convoy of trucks and campervans blocked streets near···...

People wait in line at a walk-in COVID-19 testing site at the Melbourne Town Hall in Melbourne, Australia, on December 27, 2021. Photo: IC Australia will reopen its borders to tourists from February 21, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced Monday, ending some of the wor···...

Scott Morrison Photo:XinhuaAustralia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Tuesday apologized to a political staffer who said she was raped in a ministerial office, after a review found half of parliamentary staff had experienced harassment, bullying or sexual assault. The apo···...

Vehicles block the streets around the parliament building, or The Beehive, (center behind) in Wellington, New Zealand on February 9, 2022, on the second day of the demonstration against COVID-19 restrictions, inspired by a similar one in Canada. Photo: AFPNew Zealand police on···...

 Vehicles block the streets around the parliament building, or The Beehive, (center behind) in Wellington, New Zealand on February 9, 2022, on the second day of the demonstration against COVID-19 restrictions, inspired by a similar one in Canada. Photo: AFP  _________&···...

The rate of vaccination against COVID-19 is displayed in the form of a temperature tower at an intersection in Gwangjin-gu district, Seoul in South Korea on January 12. Photo: VCGSouth Korea launched a self-treatment scheme for patients with mild coronavirus symptoms in order ···...

 Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison (center) addresses US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left), Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne (2nd from left), Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar (2nd from right) and Japan's Foreign Minister Yos···...

 People view the countdown to 2022 light projection show held at Singapore's Marina Bay on Dec. 28, 2021.(Photo: Xinhua)A sharp fall in trade visitors is expected at the Singapore Airshow this week compared to the last edition two years ago as COVID-19 continues to hit ···...

Vehicles block the streets around the parliament building, or The Beehive, (center behind) in Wellington, New Zealand on February 9, 2022, on the second day of the demonstration against COVID-19 restrictions, inspired by a similar one in Canada. Photo: AFPCyclone Dovi caused p···...

 Tanks at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant store nuclear-contaminated wastewater. Photo: XinhuaAn International Atomic Energy Agency task force began a mission Monday in Japan to review the controversial planned release of treated water from the Fukushima nuclear ···...

File picture of Australia PM Scott Morrison. /XinhuaAustralian Prime Minister Scott Morrison's Liberal Party suffered a major upset in New South Wales state's by-elections, preliminary reports indicated on Sunday, presenting a challenge for his ruling coalition ahead of federa···...

Visually impaired voters show their inked finger after casting their ballot at a polling station during the Uttarakhand state assembly elections in Haridwar, India on February 14, 2022. The elections will elect 70 members of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly. The votes will···...

Lee Jae-myung (left), the presidential candidate of the ruling Democratic Party, and Yoon Suk-yeol, the presidential candidate of the main opposition People Power Party, take part in a meeting at a Seoul hotel, South Korea, December 28, 2021, to discuss a parliamentary bill ai···...

A windmill farm is pictured at Osian in Jodhpur district of India's Rajasthan state on October 6, 2021. Photo: AFPA conservationist wants India's government to bury renewable power lines to protect rare birds. Protesting villagers halt a wind energy project to save their local···...

Photo shows a fishing community damaged by Typhoon Rai along a shoreline in Leyte Province, the Philippines, Dec. 22, 2021.The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) reported that 156 people died from the typhoon, while the Philippine National Police ···...

A police officer stands guard just outside the University of Tokyo on January 16, 2022, one of the venues for nationwide university entrance exams, a day after two high-school students and a man were wounded in a knife attack that led to the arrest of a teenager on suspicion o···...

A homebound Ilyushin Il-76 strategic airlifter carrying Russian peacekeepers on board takes off from Almaty International Airport. Photo: VCGTerrorism, extremism, and separatism, known as the "Three Evil Forces" have long been an unstable factor in Central Asia. Traces of thes···...

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addresses a crowd via a video conference in the capital Tehran, Iran on January 9, 2022. Negotiating does not mean giving in to the enemy, he said as talks are taking place in Vienna between his country and world powers on the nucle···...

Photo:CFP The tsunami triggered by a massive underwater volcanic eruption off Tonga rarely seen in 30 years has neither caused deaths or injuries of Chinese nationals nor brought disastrous effects to China's coast so far, but its impacts on the whole Pacific region are···...

File Photo shows an Indian Naval ship (INS) Kolkata berths at the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai, India. Photo: XinhuaThree Indian naval personnel were killed in an explosion on one of the country's oldest destroyers at a naval dockyard in Mumbai, authorities said. The blast occu···...