CAIRO, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said Thursday that the Suez Canal revenues fell more than 60 percent year-on-year in 2024 amid regional challenges, according to a ...

BEIJING, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have successfully assembled the chromosomal-level genome of the critically endangered Ochetobius elongatus, a rare fish species from the Yangtze River.

BELGRADE, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- The Serbian government announced on Thursday the adoption of the Belgrade Declaration, a pivotal initiative under the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence. The ...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said in a Christmas day social media post that Wayne Gretzky, an ice hockey legend from Canada, should run for prime minister of his ...

BEIJING, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- The Zhejiang Golden Bulls and the Shanghai Sharks seized victory to claim their eighth and ninth consecutive win, respectively, in the 22nd round of 2024-25 Chinese ...

JERUSALEM -- Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said on Thursday that he visited East Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and "said a prayer," which appeared to have breached the ...

COLOMBO, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- The Maldivian government plans to increase tourism revenue to 5 billion U.S. dollars in 2025, PSM News, the official state media of the Maldives, reported on Thursday ...

ADDIS ABABA, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- The Ethiopian government said that recent efforts to tackle the challenges facing the country's manufacturing sector have significantly enhanced its production ...

LUSAKA/HARARE, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- The Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) said Thursday that a spate of earthquakes has struck the area around the Kariba Dam since Dec. 1 but assured the public that the ...

BAGHDAD, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- Iraq exported about 98.8 million barrels of crude oil in November, the country's Oil Ministry announced Thursday.

ZHENGZHOU, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- Chinese archaeologists have reported a significant breakthrough in their research on the Xia Dynasty (2070-1600 B.C.), China's earliest known dynasty. They discovered ...

ISLAMABAD/KABUL, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Thursday that the country's security forces conducted anti-terror operations in border areas with Afghanistan to ...