Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi becomes the first world leader to have a face-to-face meeting with his frequently cited “friend” Emmanuel Macron following the French president’s re-election victory. While India, unlike France, still refuses to publicly condemn Russia over the Ukraine war, the two leaders share plenty of common ground.
Shanghai-based academic Zhang Weiwei says the country’s much lower death rate shows the superiority of the Chinese governance model. Zhang also said the city was ‘days away from success’ in containing the outbreak – but critics accused him of touting one-sided propaganda
New cases declined for the ninth day, dropping 6.8 per cent to 7,333 in the previous 24 hours; symptomatic cases fell 7.7 per cent to 727. The positive outlook was sullied by 58 new cases that popped up in areas previously regarded as low-risk ‘precautionary zones’
Ukrainian foreign minister says it would be a big step to stop the humanitarian catastrophe from worsening. Further conflict would not be in China’s interests, he says in interview with Chinese state news agency.
The following is the full text of the speech delivered on April 29, 2022 by Ayatollah Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, on the occasion of Quds Day.
Ayatollah Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, in meeting with a number of university students on April 26, 2022, stated, “Today the world is on the threshold of a new world order.” The following are some of the main points he stated during this meeting.
"We humanity are living in an indivisible security community. It has been proven time and again that the Cold War mentality would only wreck the global peace framework, that hegemonism and power politics would only endanger world peace, and that bloc confrontation would only exacerbate security challenges in the 21st century," Xi said.
Soaring commodity prices have set countries on a path to increased self-sufficiency which, beyond the present geopolitical conflict, will help them meet the challenges of life on a warming planet.
Car sales in Europe dropped sharply in March, industry data showed Wednesday, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine added to the woes of a sector that has been long struggling with shortages of semiconductors.
Imam Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, in meeting with the government officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran, stressed “Despite US and its cohorts’ policies and desire to push the Palestinian cause into oblivion and make the people of the world forget there was a land called Palestine, the Palestinian cause is becoming increasingly ...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday thousands of Russian troops were massing for a new offensive in the east, and Russia said it would not halt its military operation in Ukraine for any further peace talks.
It was going to be bad. It turned out to be worse. Conservative Valerie Pecresse scored below 5% in the first round of the France's presidential election, the centre right's lowest score in modern history and one which threatens its survival.
ran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said in a meeting with the Lebanese President on Friday that Tehran sees the outcome of the current developments in the interest of the region and Lebanon.
Preliminary data show this treatment helped six sickle cell patients make fetal hemoglobin. Esrick and her colleagues described this in January 2021 in the New England Journal of Medicine.