Riyadh: Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Wednesday called on China and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries to strengthen the alignment of their development strategies and speed up the free trade agreement negotiations process.

Li made the remarks…

Juba: Nearly 800,000 refugees who have fled conflict in Sudan are facing hunger and diseases in South Sudan amid a lack of humanitarian funding and soaring cost of food, a global charity warned Wednesday.

Save the Children said about 794,000 refugees…

Lanzhou: Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, inspected the city of Baoji in northwest China’s Shaanxi Province and the city of Tianshui in neighboring Gansu Province.

Xi visited the two cities from Tuesday…

Beijing: China’s State Council has unveiled a set of guidelines to enhance the regulation and high-quality development of the insurance sector, as well as risk prevention in the industry.

The guidelines call for efforts to form an initial high-qualit…

Beirut: A Hezbollah official was killed and another member severely injured on Wednesday afternoon during an Israeli raid in southeastern Lebanon’s Mays al-Jabal village, Lebanese sources told Xinhua.

Military sources, who spoke anonymously, said an …

Geneva: As part of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Public Forum 2024, the Center for China and Globalization (CCG) held a seminar here on Tuesday, which focused on leveraging China’s green transition for global climate mitigation.

The session titl…