LJUBLJANA, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- Slovenia opposes forceful changes to internationally recognized borders, Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon said on Thursday following a government session. Her comments came ...

BAGHDAD, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- The Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service said Thursday that its forces killed up to 70 Islamic State (IS) militants in 2024. In a statement, the Service said that its forces ...

JAKARTA, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia has pledged to provide various tax breaks for investors from China's Hong Kong who invest in the country, according to Indonesian Coordinating Minister for ...

The Prosent poll shows that 53 percent of Icelanders support adopting a new currency, while 27 percent are opposed, and 20 percent are undecided. Support for a new currency overlaps significantly with ...

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) on Thursday upgraded its economic views on two of the country's nine regions, owing to a continued recovery from a massive earthquake early last year and increased production ...

ATHENS, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- Greece held a funeral on Thursday in Athens for former Prime Minister Costas Simitis who passed away on Sunday at the age of 88. Thousands of people including Greece's ...

BEIJING, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- China newly identified more than 52,000 cultural heritage sites last year in its national census of immovable heritage, the National Cultural Heritage Administration said ...

In a press release, Mahama nominated Cassiel Ato Baah Forson as Minister for Finance, Dominic Akuritinga Ayine as Minister for Justice and Attorney General, and John Abdulai Jinapor as Minister for ...

ABIDJAN, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- Cote d'Ivoire's President Alassane Ouattara said Thursday in Abidjan, the economic capital, that he was undecided whether to run for the presidential election scheduled to ...

WUHAN, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- A compressed air energy storage (CAES) power station utilizing two underground salt caverns in Yingcheng City, central China's Hubei Province, was successfully connected to ...

N'DJAMENA, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- Twenty people were killed and 11 others injured in an attack on Chad's presidential palace Wednesday evening, the prosecutor's office of N'Djamena in the country's ...

KAMPALA, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- An extraordinary African Union (AU) summit on agriculture opened Thursday in Kampala, the capital of Uganda, as experts and government officials seek measures to boost the ...