A school next door was evacuated after the blast and no pupils were reported hurt.
In April, the UAE announced its interest in donating an estimated $20 million worth of coronavirus testing kits to Nevada.
The U.S. government has imposed trade sanctions on 11 companies it says are implicated in human rights abuses in China’s Muslim northwestern region of Xinjiang.
The U.S. Embassy in Beijing says a 60-year-old U.S. citizen diagnosed with the virus died in Wuhan, apparently the first American fatality of the outbreak.
Newly revealed classified documents show that camps the Chinese government runs in the country’s far west are not for voluntary job training, as Beijing says, but for forced ideological and behavioral re-education.
Apple Inc. has removed a smartphone app that allowed Hong Kong activists to report police movements from its online store following official Chinese criticism.
Miguel Diaz-Canel is the first Cuban president in six decades who is not a Castro. Raul Castro will still run the Communist Party.
The official Xinhua News Agency says China's ruling Communist Party has decided to abolish the country's one-child policy and allow all couples to have two children.