ARGENTINA People gather in Buenos Aires on November 26 to pay final respects to soccer icon Diego Maradona. Maradona, regarded as the top footballer of the 1980s and one of the all-time soccer greats
People gather in Buenos Aires on November 26 to pay final respects to soccer icon Diego Maradona. Maradona, regarded as the top footballer of the 1980s and one of the all-time soccer greats, died at the age of 60 of cardiac complications
FRANCE
A televised address by President Emmanuel Macron from Paris on November 24. He said the nationwide coronavirus lockdown could be lifted on December 15 if health conditions are met
HONDURAS
Residents clean mud and debris after tropical storm Iota battered the city of Tegucigalpa on November 19, leaving at least 14 people dead
SAUDI ARABIA
A damaged fuel tank in north Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on November 24. A projectile caused an explosion and fire at the petroleum product distribution terminal in the city that day, the authorities said
ARMENIA
In Yerevan on November 20, a man kisses the tombstone of a soldier killed in the conflict over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region between Armenia and Azerbaijan since September. The two countries agreed to a ceasefire brokered by Russia on November 10, including the deployment of Russian peacekeepers in the conflict zone
GREECE
Members of the Presidential Guard walk past the Parliament Building in Athens on which a projection saying “No to Violence”is cast to mark International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on November 25
Upon receiving the news that Taijiquan was decorated with a world intangible cultural heritage accolade on December 17, 2020, Chen Ziqiang was teaching a Taijiquan class in his hometown. The 43-year-
NEW FACE AMONG FORBES CHINA’S RICHEST Zhong Shanshan, the founder of Nongfu Spring Co., a bottled water company, is the third richest person with $53.7 billion in China’s 400 Richest 2020 by Forbes C
President Xi Jinping visited the Taizicheng Station on the Beijing-Zhangjiakou High-Speed Railway in Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province in north China, on January 19. The line, connecting Beijing and Olympi
When Xing Zuzhong, a medical worker in Hunan Province, central China, went to neighboring Hubei to help control the novel coronavirus epidemic in early 2020, he had no idea that he would become a stat
As the world’s biggest developing country and also the second-largest economy, China is working hard to eradicate poverty. In September 2020, I had the chance to visit Yunnan Province in southwest Chi
China has begun to implement its plan to vaccinate priority groups against the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) within this late winter-early spring timeframe. The southern province of Guangdong
My eyes witnessed the shining miracle, And my ears heard the sound of time flying; I met an old Chinese man, His words had tea garden, Kungfu and Tai Chi; I met a young Chinese man and he talked a
CALL FOR NEW INFLATION MEASUREMENT SYSTEM Zhou Xiaochuan, former Governor of the People’s Bank of China (PBC), the central bank, has proposed to change the way to defi ne and measure infl ation. In
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a top Iranian nucle- ar scientist, was shot dead near Tehran on November 27. The killing has sparked outrage in the country, with key leadership fi gures announcing they would reta
The third volume of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China follows the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 2019, and the 40th anniversary of the his