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Chinese language classes for school students will be optional and not compulsory, announced Egypt’s Education Minister Tarek Shawky, adding that he was…

LONDON — Britain’s health minister says a fast-spreading coronavirus variant first identified in India is likely to become the dominant…

BEIJING (AP) — Back-to-back tornadoes killed 12 people in central and eastern China and left more than 300 others injured,…

BEIJING (AP) — China landed a spacecraft on Mars for the first time on Saturday, a technically challenging feat more…

Coercive policies in China’s far western region of Xinjiang have led to a sharp decline in birth rates for Uyghurs…

The United States will keep “speaking out until China’s government stops its crimes against humanity and the genocide of Uyghurs…

BEIJING (AP) — Xinjiang in far western China had the sharpest known decline in birthrates between 2017 and 2019 of…

China’s population grew at its slowest since the 1950s as births declined, sowing doubt over Beijing’s ability to power its…

BERLIN — A large German health insurance provider says the number of days working-age people called in sick during the…

BEIJING (AP) — China will draw a “separation line” atop Mount Everest to prevent the coronavirus from being spread by…