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.

PARIS, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- The hostage-taking incident that occurred on Friday afternoon at a prison in the southern French city of Arles ended peacefully with no casualties, French Minister of Justice ...

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 ...

MADRID, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- FC Barcelona coach Hansi Flick admitted he was "not happy" about the situation that has seen the club unable to register Spain international Dani Olmo and forward Pau Victor ...

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 ...

BEIJING, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- China's central bank said on Friday it will effectively implement various existing structural monetary policy tools, as part of its work to promote the development of new ...

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 ...