DAMASCUS, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) -- United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen called here on Sunday for boosting funding for Syria, as more than 400,000 Syrian refugees have returned from Lebanon ...

BUCHAREST, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) -- Independent candidate Calin Georgescu has taken a narrow lead in Romania's presidential election, securing 21.9 percent of the vote with 77 percent of ballots counted, ...

Doyenne of Chinese classical poetry Ye Jiaying died on Sunday at the age of 100, according to Nankai University, where she held a teaching post. The university said in an obituary that Ye died of ...

BEIJING, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) -- A compilation of discourses by Xi Jinping, chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), on governing the military in accordance with the law has been published, ...

YANGON, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) -- The grand final performance and prize-awarding ceremony of the Chinese Song Competition were held in Yangon, Myanmar, on Sunday. The event was organized under the ...

BEIJING, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) -- The central parity rate of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, strengthened 24 pips to 7.1918 against the U.S. dollar Monday, according to the China Foreign ...

Israel hits Beirut with new strikes as weekend death toll reaches 29 BEIRUT, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) -- Israel launched multiple waves of airstrikes on Beirut and its southern suburbs on Sunday night, ...

BEIJING, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) -- Chinese authorities have urged related online platforms to inspect their algorithms and rectify any algorithmic controls that may exploit delivery workers, according to an ...

BEIJING, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have discovered a meteorite crater on a mountain ridge for the first time, according to an article recently published in the academic journal "Matter ...

BEIRUT, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) -- At least 20 people were killed and 66 others injured on Saturday in an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in the Lebanese capital Beirut, Lebanon's Ministry of ...

BEIJING, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- China has pledged to build one of its leading industrial parks into a globally attractive two-way open hub. The Ministry of Commerce, in a notice, stressed the support for ...

COLOMBO, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) -- The International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff and the Sri Lankan government have reached a staff-level agreement on economic policies to conclude the third review of Sri ...