LHASA, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday urged Xizang Autonomous Region to build a modern socialist new Xizang that is united, prosperous, civilized, harmonious and ...

KABUL, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- Afghan Prime Minister Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund here on Wednesday met with visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who is also a member of the Political Bureau of the ...

GAZA, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have voiced urgent calls for the reopening of border crossings to ease deteriorating humanitarian conditions, as Israel's war on the enclave ...

BEIJING, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- China's top legislator Zhao Leji met with Tran Quang Phuong, vice chairman of the National Assembly of Vietnam, in Beijing on Wednesday.

NAIROBI, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- Kenya plans to leverage its special economic zones to strengthen its industrial base and boost exports, officials said on Wednesday.

MOSCOW, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- Discussing security guarantees for Ukraine without Russian involvement is a "road to nowhere," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday.

DAMASCUS, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- U.S.-led coalition forces carried out an airborne raid on a house in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib on Wednesday, killing a man, reportedly an Islamic State ...

HELSINKI, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- Sweden's central bank, the Riksbank, on Wednesday kept its policy rate unchanged at 2 percent, citing above-target inflation and weak economic activity, but signaled a ...

A separate study that Chinese scientists carried out on the Chang'e-6 samples was published in March of this year, confirming that the South Pole-Aitken Basin formed some 4.25 billion years ago, and ...

"China is accelerating the construction of a green, low-carbon and circular economy," said Zhou Haibing, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission. He noted that the country ...

ANKARA, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone call on Wednesday to discuss the outcomes of Putin's recent Alaska summit with U.S.

Australia's R&D investment is again under scrutiny after new government figures have revealed a continued decline in R&D spending and a potential 400 million Australian dollars (257 million U.S.