Greece, Cyprus, and Israel signed on Thursday in Athens an intergovernmental agreement for the construction of the Eastern Mediterranean (EastMed) natural gas pipeline
The death toll in flooding that hit Indonesia's capital of Jakarta and its peripheral areas has risen to 43, with more than 390,000 people displaced, the Indonesian Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB)
The national flags of the United States and China at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, the United States, January 5, 2009. /Xinhua Editor's note: Mustafa Hyder Sayed is the Execu
The hatching of two storks on a bamboo platform in a remote Indian zoo has raised hopes that one of the world's most threatened bird species can be saved, experts say.The two Greater Adjutant chicks
Navy ship HMAS Choules departs from a fleet base in Sydney, January 1, 2020. /AP Photo The Australian navy has begun an operation to rescue thousands of people stranded on the east coast of th
An attack near Baghdad International Airport on Friday has killed senior Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhamdis, the deputy chief of Iraq's param
Kiribati's President Taneti Mamau will pay a state visit to China on Jan. 4-11 at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping. The following is a profile of Mamau. Mamau, 60, graduated from the Un
An attack near Baghdad International Airport on Friday has killed top Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhamdis, the deputy top leader of Iraq's par
The Japanese government on Thursday called for the detain of former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn by the Lebanese government via the International Criminal Po
Scientists in the United States have developed, for the first time, a tiny particle accelerator that fits on a vacuum-sealed chip which can be used in the future to perform cutting-edge experiments i
The new foreign investment law reflects China's strong determination to build a more open and fair market for foreign firms, Stephen Perry, chairman of Britain's 48 Group Club, told Xinhua in a rece
U.S. President Donald Trump's re-election campaign said on Thursday that it begins this year with more than 100 million U.S. dollars in the bank. The re-election campa
A key Catalan separatist party said Thursday it would allow Spain's Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez another term as prime minister, potentially ending the prolonged political deadlock in the eurozo
FILE: Turkish Armed Forces' armoured vehicles and armoured personnel carriers, carrying Turkish commandos move towards to Syrian border at Turkey's Kilis on October 09, 2019./Getty Images Egyp
04:50 Economist Anthony Chan discusses adjusted China tariffs with CGTN's Asieh Namdar.
USGS A magnitude 5.6 earthquake is being reported 41 kilometers ENE of Hasaki, Chiba, Japan by the U.S. Geological Survey.
FILE: Migrants disembark from a dinghy at “Del Canuelo” beach after they crossed the Strait of Gibraltar sailing from the coast of Morocco, in Tarifa, southern Spain, July 27, 2018./Reuters Mo