Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday sent messages of condolence to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev over the ...

DAMASCUS, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- Syria's interim administration initiated a security campaign in rural Damascus on Thursday, alongside an operation targeting armed groups in the coastal province of ...

A Chinese defense ministry spokesperson on Thursday reaffirmed China's commitment to peaceful development and a defense policy that is defensive in nature while denouncing the U.S. National Defense ...

MANILA, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- A 40-year-old female and a 10-year-old boy were killed and 13 others injured after a speeding pickup truck crashed into a concrete center island in Davao de Oro province in ...

With the merger and restructuring of Ningbo Port and Zhoushan Port, the name of "Ningbo-Zhoushan Port" was officially adopted ...

The competition rate of employment examinations to become public school teachers in Japan hit a record low in fiscal 2024, the education ministry said Thursday, amid a continued decline in applicants.

China once again urges the Philippines to withdraw the U.S. Typhon missile system at an early date, as the deployment of the system brings the risk of geopolitical confrontation and an arms race to ...

Türkiye has been grappling with rising inflation for years. From June 2023 to March this year, the central bank raised its key interest rate from 8.5 percent to 50 percent to tighten monetary policy ...

WUHAN, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- The restored statues of a pair of fossil human skulls, dating back to one million years ago, were unveiled by the Hubei Provincial Museum in central China on Thursday.

China had 33.27 million legal units engaged in secondary and tertiary industries at the end of 2023, up 52.7 percent from the end of 2018. The secondary and tertiary industries employed over 428.98 ...

BEIJING, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- China's 2023 gross domestic product (GDP) has been revised to 129.4 trillion yuan (about 18 trillion U.S. dollars), official data showed Thursday. The amount represents an ...

JERUSALEM, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- An Israeli military commander has been killed during combat in the Gaza Strip, the army said on Thursday. Amit Levi, 35, a squad commander in a patrol battalion of ...