Turkish security forces have seized more than a ton of heroin hidden in a Democratic Republic of Congo-flagged cargo ship in a raid in international waters on Wednesday, Reuters reported.
One artist is transforming Lagos, Nigeria's largest city, into a colorful place one wall at a time. And in doing so, he is also changing perceptions of the value of street art.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on Wednesday received five million US dollars in food aid from the Chinese government in Kakuma refugees camp in northern Kenya.
Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservatives will fail to win a parliamentary majority in Britain's election, according to an exit poll on Thursday, a shock result that would plunge the country into political turmoil and could delay Brexit talks.
A State Council executive meeting chaired by Premier Li Keqiang on Wednesday decided to take new actions to cut fees paid by enterprises, and required to meet the promises to slash corporate cost by one trillion yuan (nearly 147 billion US dollars) this year.
Last year, China became the second largest investing country, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said on its annual report on investment issued on Wednesday.
A logistics terminal jointly built by China and Kazakhstan began operation in China’s eastern port of Lianyungang in 2014. CGTN’s Hu Nan visited the terminal to see how it's boosted imports and exports of countries along the New Eurasia Continental Bridge.
Fired FBI director James Comey said that US President Donald Trump urged him to drop a probe into former national security adviser Michael Flynn, prompting fresh allegations that the US president tried to obstruct justice.
The global economy is set to grow 3.5% this year before nudging up to 3.6% in 2018, the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) forecast on Wednesday.
South Africa's economy has entered recession for the first time in eight years, official data showed on Tuesday, piling pressure on a government facing corruption allegations and credit downgrades.
Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived on Wednesday in the Kazakh capital Astana for a four-day state visit, during which time he will attend the 17th Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
As China's college entrance exam, or otherwise known as Gaokao, kicked off on Wednesday, around 9.4 million high school student have just finished Chinese, the first part of the test in the morning.
In recent years, the fruit avocado has become synonymous with a healthy, middle class lifestyle. The success of avocado has also been one of the biggest marketing success stories in China in recent years.
Emmanuel Macron's party is set to win the biggest parliamentary majority for a French president since Charles de Gaulle's 1968 landslide, a survey of voter intentions for the coming legislative elections showed on Tuesday.
Plant embryos have cells that function as a brain, a study published Tuesday by scientists at the University of Birmingham has revealed. The group of brain cells can assess environmental conditions and dictate when seeds will germinate, the researchers say.
The West African country of Mauritania has become the latest to cut ties with Qatar over its alleged terrorist links.
Senate intelligence committee Chairman Richard Burr said on Tuesday that former FBI chief James Comey is to testify before the committee on Thursday, which marks the first public testimony on his firing and interactions with US President Donald Trump.
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