Construction of the longest undersea subway tunnel in China was completed Monday in Qingdao, a coastal city in Shandong Province. The 5.4-km-long tunnel, between the s
The 2020 Chinese New Year Concert is to be staged at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa Sunday night. The concert will be led by chief conductor Lin Daye and will feature a gold winner of the Van Cl
Unidentified militants using unmanned flying vehicles launched an airstrike on Sunday targeting the Russian Hmeimim airbase in Syria. Air defence systems successfully t
The rate of the urban population against the total population stood at 60.6 percent in China at the end of 2019, up 1.02 percentage points from the same period in the
Iraqi President Barham Salih received a phone call from U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo over the need to reduce tensions in the region, the Iraqi presidency office
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif ruled out the possibility of any negotiation over a new nuclear deal, Tehran Times daily reported Saturday. "We will neve
Hundreds of families evacuated their homes in the western countryside of Syria's northern province of Aleppo as a result of the military showdown there, a war monitor
The counter-terror measures adopted in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have been conducive to the prosperity of the region, which has seen no terror attack in
Croatia and Austria will continue to push for a decision to open accession negotiations with Albania and North Macedonia at European Council level in March, Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic
The coordination between Moscow and Beijing in foreign policy has had an "important stabilizing influence on the world," acting Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday. Speaking at a pres
U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts was sworn in on Thursday afternoon on the Senate floor for the soon-to-begin impeachment trial, making Donald Trump only the third president in U.S. history to face s
Ankara and the UN-backed Government of National Accord previously signed an agreement to deploy Turkish troops to the war-torn country. Turkey noted though that the dep
China's top legislator Li Zhanshu held talks with President of the Swiss National Council Isabelle Moret Thursday in Beijing. Forging diplomatic relations with China 70 years ago, Switzerland was one
President Vladimir Putin proposed Wednesday to tweak the Russian Constitution to increase the powers of parliament and the Cabinet — a move that could herald his intent
A Chinese dance and music show celebrating the upcoming Chinese new year gained grand applause from the audiences in Istanbul on Wednesday. The performance, named "Mag
Collaborative Fund emerged on the scene nearly 10 years ago to fund seed-stage and, as time passed, early-stage startups, many of them in New York, where the firm is based.Apparently, the firm has amb
The Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani on Wednesday arrived in Baghdad on an official visit to hold talks with Iraqi leaders in a bid to