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No force can shake China: Xi Jinping

No force can shake China: Xi Jinping

Ismail Hossain from Beijing 2019-10-02 10:14:08

Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday that no force can stop China's development and shake the foundation of the nation. "There is no force that can shake the foundation of this great nation,"...

Iran court sentences Rouhani's brother for courruption

Iran court sentences Rouhani's brother for courruption

-- 2019-10-01 22:11:54

 An Iranian court sentenced the brother of President Hassan Rouhani to five years in prison, a judiciary spokesman was quoted as saying on Tuesday by the semi-official Fars news, reports Reuters....

70 years: China's contributions to the world

70 years: China's contributions to the world

Wu Jinduo, Global Times 2019-10-01 17:18:04

China has spent 70 years exploring a suitable road for its development, and it has simultaneously spent those 70 years continuously contributing to global progress. Since China's reform and opening-up...

Founding of PRC completely changes China's fate: Xi

Founding of PRC completely changes China's fate: Xi

Xinhua 2019-10-01 17:13:56

The founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC) completely changed China's miserable fate of being poor and weak and being bullied and humiliated in over 100 years since the advent of modern time...

China flexes military muscle to mark 70 years of Communist rule

China flexes military muscle to mark 70 years of Communist rule

-- 2019-10-01 14:59:40

China celebrated its growing power and confidence with a big display of military hardware and goose-stepping troops in Beijing on Tuesday, overseen by President Xi Jinping who pledged peaceful develop...

Support for Trump impeachment growing: Poll

Support for Trump impeachment growing: Poll

Reuters 2019-10-01 10:28:35

The number of Americans who believe President Donald Trump should be impeached rose by 8 percentage points over the past week as more people learned about allegations that Trump pressured Ukraine to s...

China celebrates 70th founding anniv today

China celebrates 70th founding anniv today

Ismail Hossain from Beijing 2019-10-01 10:18:56

China is holding a grand celebration, followed by a military parade and mass pageantry at Tian'anmen Square in Beijing today (Tuesday) on its National Day, marking the 70th founding anniversary of the...

Pakistan summons Indian diplomat

Pakistan summons Indian diplomat

Reuters 2019-09-30 20:41:44

Pakistan’s government on Monday summoned India’s top diplomat in the country over accusations of deadly shelling by India in its portion of the disputed region of Kashmir, as tensions run...

China to send its top trade negotiator to US for talks

China to send its top trade negotiator to US for talks

AP 2019-09-30 16:46:33

China’s top trade negotiator will lead an upcoming 13th round of talks aimed at resolving a trade war with the United States, a senior Chinese official said. Vice Premier Liu He will travel to...

Some of Khashoggi's killers enjoy impunity: Erdogan

Some of Khashoggi's killers enjoy impunity: Erdogan

Reuters 2019-09-30 16:11:59

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan insisted on Monday that Turkey will keep pushing for the truth behind the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last year, saying so...

Floods kill 113 in north India

Floods kill 113 in north India

Reuters 2019-09-30 16:03:15

Heavy rains have killed at least 113 people in India’s Uttar Pradesh and Bihar states over the past three days, officials said on Monday, as flood waters swamped a major city, inundated hospital...

Indian workers in the Gulf face new test

Indian workers in the Gulf face new test

-- 2019-09-30 15:32:58

As producer of a long-running television show that spotlights the problems faced by Indians working in the Gulf, Rafeek Ravunther is used to hearing their heart-rending stories of exploitation. But a...

Saudi crown prince warns of 'Iran threat' to global oil

Saudi crown prince warns of 'Iran threat' to global oil

Reuters 2019-09-30 11:03:28

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince warned in an interview broadcast on Sunday that oil prices could spike to “unimaginably high numbers” if the world does not come together to deter Iran, b...

Xi presents national medals, honorary titles

Xi presents national medals, honorary titles

Xinhua 2019-09-29 18:59:10

President Xi Jinping is presenting national medals and honorary titles of the People's Republic of China to awardees in the Great Hall of the People on Sunday morning.Xi, also general secretary of the...

Syrian Constitutional Committee authorised to draft new constitution

Syrian Constitutional Committee authorised to draft new constitution

-- 2019-09-29 15:53:29

The newly formed Constitutional Committee in Syria has been authorised to draft a new constitution for the war-torn country, according to its terms of reference, which have been agreed on by the gover...

UK PM Johnson says he will not resign

UK PM Johnson says he will not resign

Reuters 2019-09-29 15:19:16

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday he would not resign to avoid having to delay Brexit beyond the end of October. Johnson has vowed to take Britain out of the EU with or without a de...

Saudi king’s bodyguard shot dead in dispute: state TV

Saudi king’s bodyguard shot dead in dispute: state TV

-- 2019-09-29 13:52:53

The personal bodyguard of Saudi Arabia’s King Salman was shot dead in a personal dispute, state television al-Ekhbariya reported on Sunday. Major General Abdul Aziz al-Faghm was killed in the R...

China bus crash kills 36

China bus crash kills 36

-- 2019-09-29 11:02:09

A bus veered into the opposite lane in China on Saturday morning, hitting a truck and killing 36 people, according to an official police notice. The bus, which was driving north, broke through a barr...

Public opinion shifting in support of impeachment inquiry: Pelosi

Public opinion shifting in support of impeachment inquiry: Pelosi

-- 2019-09-29 10:39:32

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Saturday that public opinion is now on the side of an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump following the release of new information about his conver...

Fire on oil tankers at South Korean port injures ten

Fire on oil tankers at South Korean port injures ten

Reuters 2019-09-28 18:03:49

A fire that spread across two oil tankers in a South Korean port injured 10 people on Saturday, coastguard and fire officials said, adding the blaze had largely been put out. An explosion occurred on...

White Paper expounds China’s relationship with the world

White Paper expounds China’s relationship with the world

Global Times 2019-09-28 18:01:07

The State Council Information Office issued a white paper titled "China and the World in the New Era"on Friday. This is the first governmental white paper that has comprehensively expounded the relati...

Afghans vote for president defying threat of militant attack

Afghans vote for president defying threat of militant attack

Reuters 2019-09-28 16:01:34

Afghans braved the threat of militant attacks and delays at polling booths to vote in a presidential election on Saturday, a major test of the Western-backed Afghan government’s ability to prote...

Police impose restrictions in Indian Kashmir after Pakistan PM's speech

Police impose restrictions in Indian Kashmir after Pakistan PM's speech

-- 2019-09-28 15:04:56

Authorities in Indian Kashmir tightened restrictions on people's movements on Saturday to prevent possible protests triggered by a speech by Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan. Khan, in an address t...

Democrats subpoena Pompeo for Ukraine docs

Democrats subpoena Pompeo for Ukraine docs

-- 2019-09-28 13:41:42

Democrats in the US House of Representatives who are pursuing an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump forged ahead with their probe on Friday, issuing a subpoena to Secretary of State Mi...

Fire on oil tankers at S Korean port injures nine: Yonhap

Fire on oil tankers at S Korean port injures nine: Yonhap

-- 2019-09-28 12:55:34

A fire onboard two oil tankers that injured nine sailors at a South Korean port has been put out, the Yonhap news agency said on Saturday. An explosion occurred on the Stolt Groenland, a 25,000-tonne...

Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine resigns

Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine resigns

-- 2019-09-28 10:57:40

Kurt Volker, a former US ambassador to NATO caught in the middle of a whistleblower complaint over the President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine, resigned Friday from his post as special en...

Hundreds of thousands join Canada climate strikes

Hundreds of thousands join Canada climate strikes

-- 2019-09-28 10:40:51

Hundreds of thousands of people have joined climate strike marches across Canada, with almost 100 events planned in cities and towns. Protesters are taking part in the global climate strike movement,...

6.1-magnitude quake hits Argentina

6.1-magnitude quake hits Argentina

-- 2019-09-27 15:07:12

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 jolted 40 km west of Villa La Angostura, Argentina at 16:36:18 GMT on Thursday, the US Geological Survey said. The epicentre, with a depth of 128.26 km, was init...

Burkina Faso grants $33m loan for programmes on Sahel

Burkina Faso grants $33m loan for programmes on Sahel

-- 2019-09-27 15:03:31

Burkina Faso has obtained a loan of 33 million US dollars to fund presidential and emergency programmes on the Sahel region, the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Development said. It said the financi...

Despite French, British pleas, few signs of US-Iran detente

Despite French, British pleas, few signs of US-Iran detente

-- 2019-09-27 14:44:22

Britain and France all but begged Iran to jump into the waters of a negotiation with the United States this week. Neither antagonist, however, showed much desire to discuss the many issues dividing t...