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Just days ago, during an anniversary celebration at Tsinghua University, the football-playing humanoid robots from the university's Hephaestus robot team drew waves of amazement from spectators with their impressive skills.

With El Nino conditions maturing in the coming months, April 2026 saw the second-highest sea surface temperatures on record for the extra-polar oceans, while the month ranked as the joint third-warmest April globally, the European Union's climate monitoring network reported Friday.

China will increase its retail prices of gasoline and diesel from Saturday to reflect recent changes in international oil prices, the country's top economic planner said on Friday.

Bulgarian former President Rumen Radev became the country's new prime minister on Friday after the parliament approved him and his proposal for a Council of Ministers.

Global food prices rose in April for the third consecutive month, with vegetable oil prices surging amid supply disruptions tied to the Iran war, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization said on Friday.

The top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) inspected the production of new-type self-propelled gun-howitzers to be deployed at the country's southern border this year during a visit to a major munitions enterprise on Wednesday, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA)

"As far as I know, representatives from the Chinese Embassy in Russia will attend the event [Victory Day parade in Moscow] upon invitation," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said at a press briefing on Friday, in response to media inquiries over the relevant information regarding the

Effective from May 1, China extends zero-tariff treatment to all African nations with which it maintains diplomatic relations.