Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo swims in the Seine River less than 10 days before the opening of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France, July 17, 2024. PARIS -- Anne Hidalgo, mayor of Paris, the city that is to host the upcoming Olympic Games, swam on Wednesday in the Seine to assure the clean...
US President Joe Biden [PhotoAgencies] WASHINGTON - US President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday, the White House confirmed. "Earlier today following his first event in Las Vegas, President Biden tested positive for COVID-19. He is vaccinated and boosted, and he is experienci...
This photo taken on July 17, 2024 shows three books on Chinese President Xi Jinping's works and remarks printed in traditional Chinese characters during the launch ceremony in Hong Kong. [PhotoXinhua] HONG KONG -- Three books on Chinese President Xi Jinping's works and remarks printed in traditio...
Job seekers attend a job fair held in Shenzhen, on April 15, 2023. [PhotoVCG] The unemployment rates for 16- to 24-year-olds and 25- to 29-year-olds in urban areas, excluding students, have decreased for three consecutive months, according to figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics ...
LIMA -- At least 21 people were killed and nearly 20 others injured in a passenger bus accident in the southern Peruvian region of Ayacucho on Tuesday, local authorities said. The interprovincial bus went off the road in the district of Paras, Cangallo province, Ayacucho region, and fell into a rav...
The Shenzhen-Zhongshan Bridge of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link in Guangdong province. MAO SIQIANXINHUASHI LEINANFANG DAILY The Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link is expected to even out economic disparity in the Pearl River Delta, boost the region's global competitiveness and make commuters' lives much easier...
Nine sluice gates of the Three Gorges Dam discharge floodwaters on Monday. The Yangtze River Basin has entered a crucial period for flood control, which is normally between mid-July and mid-August. ZHENG JIAYUFOR CHINA DAILY The national weather authorities have issued a Level II emergency respon...
KP Sharma Oli center, chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal Unified Marxist Leninist, meets his supporters after being appointed as prime minister in Kathmandu on Sunday.NIRANJAN SHRESTHAAP As KP Sharma Oli, chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal Unified Marxist Leninist, or CPN-UML, was swo...
The first domestic intelligent robot developed to detassel corn recently began operating at a demonstration base in Changji city, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. Detasseling is the act of removing pollen-producing flowers, or the tassels, from the tops of corn plants and putting them on the groun...
Staff members monitor the flood water at a hydrological station in Funan county of Fuyang, East China's Anhui province, July 14, 2024. [PhotoXinhua] BEIJING -- While the summer heat continues to bake many parts of China, rainstorms are forecast to sweep through some provincial-level regions in th...
Job seekers attend a job fair held in Shenzhen, on April 15, 2023. [PhotoVCG] China's surveyed average urban unemployment rate stood at 5.1 percent in the first half of the year, down 0.2 percentage point year-on-year, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Monday. The average unemployment ra...
China's policymakers are gathering in Beijing on Monday for an epoch-making meeting to advance the nation's reform and opening-up, amid high expectations that key steps will be introduced to further energize the world's second-largest economy and bolster its modernization drive. The third plenary s...
Police officers walk outside Trump Tower after Republican presidential candidate and former US President Donald Trump was injured when shots were fired during a campaign rally held in Butler, in New York, the US on July 14. [PhotoAgencies] WASHINGTON -- Former US President Donald Trump, the presu...
Customers at a bar in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, watch the news on Saturday as former United States president Donald Trump is whisked off the stage following an assassination attempt during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.MATT ROURKEAP Former United States president Donald Trump survived a shooting, i...