SAO PAULO, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- The 43rd World Skills Competition closed on Sunday in Brazil's largest city Sao Paulo, with China scoring four gold medals in manufacturing, welding, hairdressing, and car painting.
Brazil's negative GDP results in the first quarter of 2015 are a reflection of recent economic uncertainty, Finance Minister Joaquim Levy said Friday.
Food safety organization Thursday published new survey results, showing that chickens sold in most of British food retailers were infected with campylobacter.
Food safety organization Thursday published new survey results, showing that chickens sold in most of British food retailers were infected with campylobacter.
Islamic Hamas movement on Monday slammed Israel for not allowing the UN inquiry committee from arriving in Gaza to probe the results of the latest Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip.
A total of 49 percent of all residents of the Austrian capital of Vienna have an immigrant background, meaning they were either born abroad themselves or have at least one parent who was, new study results have shown.
A new hepatitis C vaccine has shown promising results in an early clinical trial at Oxford University in Britain, generating strong and broad immune responses, according to the results published Wednesday in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt declared his resignation on Sunday night amid disappointing results of his center-right government in the 2014 parliamentary election.
Even though Afghan election commission completed the votes auditing and recounting process a couple of days ago, the election results have yet to be announced obviously owing to the continued dispute between the two presidential candidates.
The UN mission in Afghanistan on Monday said that it continues to respond to presidential candidates' technical concerns during the ongoing audit process.
An official of Indonesia's election commission said on Monday that the commission would not be the one to legally announce the president-elect should either of the two presidential hopefuls running in last week's presidential elections rejects the real-count results.
Almost a quarter of all New Zealanders were identified as disabled last year and the proportion is growing as the population ages, according to survey results released by a government statistics agency on Tuesday.
Afghanistan's local newspapers in their editorials on Tuesday called for an electoral commission to look into complaints filed against the April 5 presidential elections.
Afghanistan's election commission has announced the partial result of April 5 presidential elections on Sunday under which Dr. Abdullah Abdullah was in lead followed by former finance minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai and ex-foreign minister Zalmai Rassoul.
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) on Tuesday urged candidates in the Asian country's presidential elections and their supporters to respect the two national electoral institutions as vote counting continues, a UN spokesman told reporters here.
Voting in Thailand's tense general elections ended at 3 p.m. Sunday and ballot counting has begun.
Over 90 percent of Egyptians approved the country's new draft constitution in a referendum, the official MENA news agency reported Thursday, citing preliminary results.
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