WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- Mike Johnson on Friday won re-election for the U.S. House speaker in a slim Republican majority, after swaying two out of the three members of his party who had joined ...

KATHMANDU, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- Nepali farmers are expected to harvest a record of 5.95 million tons of paddy rice in 2024 as good monsoon rains and the availability of chemical fertilizers helped boost ...

TEHRAN, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Foreign Ministry on Friday summoned Italian Ambassador to Tehran Paola Amadei for her country's detention of Iranian national Mohammad Abedini.

ROME, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- Global food prices fell by 2.1 percent in 2024 compared to the average for the previous year, mainly due to declines in cereal and sugar prices, according to the latest report ...

ADDIS ABABA, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese medical team from Tianjin Eye Hospital on Friday officially launched a free cataract surgery campaign at Tirunesh Beijing Hospital in Addis Ababa, the capital ...

Türkiye's transportation networks, including railways and highways that connect to Syrian borders, would facilitate the flow of goods, services, and people, said Oytun Orhan, a senior researcher at ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday officially blocked Nippon Steel's proposed acquisition of U.S. Steel on national security grounds -- a decision that economists say ...

HARBIN, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- Daqing Oilfield, one of China's largest oil production bases, announced Friday that its natural gas production exceeded 6 billion cubic meters in 2024, achieving steady ...

JAKARTA, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- The Indonesian government has committed to prioritizing the development of education, allocating approximately 20 percent of the total 2024 state budget to the sector, ...

Highlighting the ongoing conflict situations in different parts of Ethiopia, particularly in the country's Amhara and Oromia regions, UNICEF said the education sector has been "devastated." Over nine ...

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- Restoration work on the nearly 1,000-year-old southern library of the Angkor Wat in Cambodia's Angkor Archaeological Park has been completed successfully, the APSARA ...

SEB Bank economist Tadas Povilauskas wrote in a Facebook post that in the first ten months of 2024, exports from Lithuania of the sanctioned goods amounted to 720 million euros, and exports of such ...