6th edition of Health Expo Iraq opens in Baghdad

European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde said Thursday she will step down on Feb. 7, 2027, nearly nine months ahead of the end of her eight-year term.

The death toll from Wednesday's train collision in Spain's Toledo province, south of Madrid, has risen to 69, while more than a dozen people remain hospitalized in critical condition, Emiliano Garcia-Page, president of Spain's Castilla-La Mancha region, said Thursday.

Japanese character company Sanrio's collaboration with Japanese TV drama Vivant, which has been accused of seriously distorting China's image, drew widespread attention after the company launched co-branded products with the series in July.

China urges vigilance against tendencies in Japan to smear China and spread anti-Chinese sentiment through cultural products, the foreign ministry said Thursday.

The US' Foreign Policy magazine recently argued that the US is "Not Ready for The Arctic Age," citing a late-August post by the US president: "We don't need Canada, they need us!"

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas expressed hope that the period following the formation of a new Israeli government would create an opportunity to resume serious political dialogue, the Palestinian News and Information Agency reported Thursday.

A Chinese defense spokesman on Thursday warned that Japan's expanding military deployments and efforts to strengthen military cooperation with other countries pose a threat to regional security, citing the recent "Keen Sword 27" joint exercise with the United States.

The world is in urgent need of mutual learning to bridge boundaries and build shared understanding among civilizations, and China's public relations practices offer much to learn, said global experts at the 2026 Shanghai International Public Relations Forum held on Wednesday.

The Chinese Defense Ministry on Thursday slammed the so-called US-Japan joint exercises, stressing that Japan's insistence on stoking bloc confrontation finds no support.According to reports, the US and Japan recently held the "Keen Sword 27" joint exercise, the largest iteration of the series to

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) opened an international travel, culture, and entertainment trade fair on Thursday as part of the country's push to become a tourism and entertainment hub in Southeast Asia.

A senior business executive said in Hong Kong that with international scrutiny, due diligence and greater transparency intensifying, Asia remains a highly open market and has a dynamism and untapped potential that global program operators should explore in depth.

Britain would provide 10 billion pounds (13 billion US dollars) of additional economic and military support to Ukraine, said British Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey on Wednesday.

South China's Guangdong province registered 71.54 billion yuan ($10.7 billion) in foreign investment from APEC economies in the year's first three quarters, a growth of 13.7 percent year-on-year that reflects expanding ties in the bloc.

Yemen's government said Thursday that Aden International Airport had resumed normal operations after a temporary suspension triggered by a Houthi attack that damaged its runway a day earlier.