BEIRUT, July 31 (Xinhua) -- Lebanon's President Joseph Aoun on Thursday called for exclusive control of arms by the Lebanese state, urging all political factions to rally behind the national army as ...

JAKARTA, July 31 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia has allocated 47.1 billion Indonesian rupiahs (around 2.8 million U.S. dollars) to boost research and promote its sustainability through three flagship schemes ...

GENEVA, July 31 (Xinhua) -- China's top legislator Zhao Leji has called for jointly advancing the high-level development of the China-Switzerland innovative strategic partnership during an official ...

ISTANBUL, July 31 (Xinhua) -- Türkiye hosted 26.39 million foreign visitors and earned 25.8 billion U.S. dollars in tourism revenue in the first half of 2025, Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri ...

VICTORIA FALLS, Zimbabwe, July 31 (Xinhua) -- Amid growing global attention to wetland conservation, China's efforts and achievements in this field are particularly eye-catching at the 15th Meeting of ...

JAKARTA, July 31 (Xinhua) -- The Indonesian government has decreased the export benchmark price for copper concentrate for the first half of August by 0.64 percent to 4,653.74 U.S. dollars per wet ...

BEIJING, July 31 (Xinhua) -- The State Council, China's cabinet, on Thursday announced that Liu Yu and Wang Qianjin had been appointed as the national security technical advisers of the Committee for ...

LANZHOU, July 31 (Xinhua) -- Crescent Spring, a famed desert oasis in northwest China's Gansu Province, has recorded its highest water level and largest surface area in over 20 years, signaling a ...

From the coasts of Mugla city to the plains of Adana city, beekeeping remains woven into Türkiye's identity. Though climate stress forces adaptation, the biodiversity of this country, rich in alpine ...

BEIJING, July 31 (Xinhua) -- China looks forward to deepening dialogue and consultations with the United States to seek more mutually beneficial outcomes, Ministry of Commerce spokesperson He Yadong ...

TALLINN, July 31 (Xinhua) -- Estonia is losing more forest than it's gaining, according to the Environmental Agency's latest statistical forest inventory (SMI). The Estonian Fund for Nature said the ...

MANILA, July 31 (Xinhua) -- Four suspected rebels of the New People's Army (NPA) were killed in clashes with Philippine troops in Northern Samar province in the central Philippines on Thursday, the ...