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Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday sent a congratulatory letter to the first high-level conference of the Forum on Global Action for Shared Development.  Source(s): Xinhua News Agency

A white powder that was found in the White House and sparked a brief security alert has been confirmed to be cocaine, the Secret Service said Wednesday. The powder’s discovery in the West Wing on Sunday was initially treated as a potential danger, prompting a brief evacuation. An initial test...

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday addressed the 23rd meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) via video conference from Beijing. The following is the full text of the address: Your Excellency Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Distinguished Colleagues, I wish to thank India...

Chinese shoppers browsing African goods at the third China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo in Changsha International Convention and Exhibition Center, Hunan Province, July 1, 2023. /CFP The third China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo closed on Sunday in Changsha, capital of central China’s Hunan Province. This year’s expo achieved several unprecedented...

A Mayor of southern Mexico in San Pedro Huamelula town, Victor Hugo Sosa, has married a female reptile named Alicia Adriana in a traditional rite to bring good fortune to his people, AFP reports on Sunday. As onlookers clapped and danced, the Indigenous Chontal people of the town watched while...

At least six people, including women, were killed and many sustained injuries when insurgents fired a mortar bomb into Damboa town in Damboa Local Government Area of Borno state. It was learnt that the outlawed group came at exactly 8:30 pm to Waluri bridge in Damboa town and attacked a...

….Doles out millions of naira The Aliko Dangote Foundation(ADF) has offered relief to more Nigerian nationals fleeing the conflict in Sudan. The recent, One Hundred and Twenty-Five (125) persons including many disabled, flown into Abuja by Tarco Airline on Saturday, June 24th, each received N100,000 naira and dignity packs courtesy...

The National Health Service in England will get more than 300,000 staff under a new plan announced by the government on Friday to deal with a chronic shortage of doctors and nurses. The publicly-funded NHS, which marks its 75th birthday on Wednesday, is facing an estimated workforce shortfall of 360,000...

French President Emmanuel Macron was Friday to chair a new crisis meeting of ministers after a third straight night of nationwide protests over the deadly police shooting of a teenager saw cars torched, shops ransacked and hundreds arrested. The overnight unrest followed a march on Thursday in memory of the...

Experts have recovered presumed human remains from what is left of the Titan sub that imploded during a dive to the Titanic wreck, with the death of five people, the US Coast Guard said Wednesday. “United States medical professionals will conduct a formal analysis of presumed human remains that have...