French President Francois Hollande on Wednesday said considering a military operation "if necessary" to quell fighters of the Islamic State (IS), but recalled the need to seek a diplomatic alternative to secure the stability in the region.
Hu Wenge, student of Mei Lanfang's son Mei Baojiu, has been the only successor of male Dan, a female role in Peking Opera, in Mei school of Peking Opera for the past 50 years.
The United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) in Golan Heights observed Wednesday a heavy fighting between the Syrian armed forces and armed members of the opposition in and around locations in the central part of the area of separation,
The United States had recently attempted to rescue a number of American hostages, including slain journalist James Foley, held in Syria by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), but the mission failed, Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby on Wednesday said.
China's central bank announced on Monday that an online system for the registration of Legal Entity Identifiers (LEI) has been established and put into operation, joining a global effort to strengthen financial stability.
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has posed a threat to the civilized world, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Monday, days after Washington launched airstrikes against the Islamist fighters in northern Iraq.
The United States on Thursday accused Russia of firing artillery across the border to attack Ukrainian military positions.
The US-Japan alliance, a bilateral arrangement made in the Cold War, should not undermine China's territorial sovereignty and legitimate rights, a Chinese spokesman said on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's policies threaten the peace of Japan and lead the country down a dangerous path, a Japanese expert warned Saturday.
U.S. and Qatar have signed an arms deal on Qatar's purchase of U.S. Patriot defense systems and Apache helicopters to the tune of 11 billion dollars, the U.S. Defense Department said in a statement on Monday.
Analysts hold low expectations for the high-level dialogue between China and the United States as differences remain between the two powers. But this makes the talks all the more necessary.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea said Thursday that it would continue firing tactical missiles no matter what criticism the United States made, the country's official KCNA news agency reported.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry held talks on Sunday with Egypt's newly-elected President Abdel- Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo in the first visit of a high-profile U.S. official to Egypt since Sisi took office earlier this month.
A record number of overseas visitors arrived in New Zealand last month, led by arrivals from the United States and Japan, the government statistics agency announced Monday.
The preliminary ruling by the United States on imported photovoltaic products from China is an abuse of trade remedy measures, China's Ministry of Commerce said Wednesday.
U.S. President Barack Obama said here Wednesday that he believes terrorism remains the most direct threat to America at home and abroad in the foreseeable future.
Russia on Wednesday called groundless the extension of the so-called Magnitsky List drawn by the United States, and vowed to retaliate.
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