Syria's interim authorities met here with visiting Iraqi intelligence chief Hamid al-Shatri on Thursday, according to an official statement carried by Syrian state media outlets. Ahmed al-Sharaa, head ...

GUANGZHOU, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- China's Guangzhou Futures Exchange on Thursday began trading polysilicon futures, with the trading of polysilicon options to open on Friday. Polysilicon is a key raw ...

TEHRAN, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- Iran's intelligence forces have arrested an individual on charge of spying for a neighboring country in the northwestern province of Ardabil, the semi-official Tasnim news ...

MOSCOW, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- Temporary restrictions have been introduced on four Moscow airports and the Kaluga Airport southwest of the Moscow region, a representative of Russian Federal Air Transport ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

SUVA, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- Fiji has been experiencing relentless rainfall with heavy downpours and flash flooding, with weather systems moving from the Western Division to the Central, Eastern and ...