NEW YORK, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- Oil prices advanced on Friday. The West Texas Intermediate for February delivery went up 98 cents, or 1.41 percent, to settle at 70.6 U.S. dollars a barrel on the New ...

NEW YORK, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 jolted Near East Coast of Honshu, Japan at 19:10:06 GMT on Friday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The ...

LUSAKA, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- A seminar was held on Friday in Lusaka, the Zambian capital, to enhance labor relations between Chinese enterprises in Zambia and their employees. Held under the theme ...

ADDIS ABABA, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- As 2024 comes to an end, the relationship between Ethiopia and China has reached new heights, with their ties solidified as pivotal partners on bilateral and global ...

NEW YORK, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks dived on profit-taking and wrapped up the holiday-shortened week on a downbeat note on Friday, bringing a largely triumphant year closer to its conclusion.

SACRAMENTO, the United States, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- The United States experienced its highest level of homelessness in 2024, with several states reporting triple-digit percentage increases as the ...

TIRANA, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- Albania's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said on Friday that new cases of African swine fever have been found in the country. They were detected in ...

JERUSALEM -- The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement that its air force on Friday struck "infrastructure" at the Janta crossing on the Syrian-Lebanese border, which it claimed was used to ...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Friday strongly condemned the burning of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip by Israeli troops, which forced patients and medical staff to evacuate. In a ...

BEIRUT, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- Lebanese security forces on Friday arrested 67 Syrian nationals for illegally entering Lebanon, along with a Lebanese bus driver who was transporting them, the official ...

TUNIS, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- Tunisian security forces have dismantled a drug trafficking network active in the northwestern province of Siliana, arresting three individuals, the Tunisian National Guard ...

For decades, NPR and PBS have overcome similar threats. But this year, "the attention and intensity" of the calls to defund public media seem greater, said Michael Isip, the president and chief ...