MOSCOW, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- Russia's poverty rate has dropped by more than 20 percentage points over the past two decades, reaching a historic low, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday.

Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, told Dato Erywan Pehin Yusof, Brunei's second minister of foreign affairs, that China and ASEAN can ...

TEHRAN, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Thursday condemned the U.S. government's intensified restrictions on the staff of its permanent mission to the United Nations (UN) in New ...

Germany's overall exports are forecast to fall 0.2 percent in 2025, with shipments to the United States recording a particularly steep decline, the Kiel Institute for the World Economy said, citing ...

David Idriss Kamara, principal of the Sierra Leone Pingkang Dental College, noted that this was the first CPR training conducted at the college. He highlighted the school's affiliation with the Sierra ...

Addressing the Ministerial Breakfast Meeting of the African Ministers of Environment taking place on the sidelines of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) sessions in Nairobi, Kenya, Aucamp ...

CAIRO, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa on Thursday called for "the full implementation" of the agreement to end the war in Gaza, ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- The exhibition of the Global Tour of Heze Juye Gongbi Peony Paintings, titled "Blooming along the Silk Road, Creating Prosperity Together," was held from Tuesday to ...

The Nepal: Macroeconomic Update, released by the ADB on Thursday, projected Nepal's GDP growth to slow to 3 percent in fiscal year 2025-26, which began in mid-July, down from 4.6 percent growth in ...

SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- Two workers were killed and two others remained missing after a steel structure collapsed at a library construction site in South Korea's Gwangju on Thursday, according to ...

LHASA, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- No casualties have been reported after a 5.0-magnitude earthquake jolted Tsonyi County of Nagqu City in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region on Thursday, according to ...

HONG KONG, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- Sun Yingsha and Lin Shidong sailed into the singles quarterfinals after claiming victories in Chinese derby at the World Table Tennis (WTT) Finals here on Thursday.