Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Kazem Gharibabadi said Wednesday that the United States is now further pressuring Iran under the label of an "economic war," which he views as an attempt to cover up Washington's previous failure.Gharibabadi said in a social media

There are currently no grounds for optimism about a peaceful settlement of the Ukraine crisis due to Ukraine's position, and Russia's special military operation is continuing, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Thursday.While there is a trend of growing fatigue with support for Ukraine, some

China photo exhibition held in Kathmandu on World Photography Day

Britain faces extreme dryness in summer

The death toll from a magnitude-7.7 earthquake that struck Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara province has risen to 75, with 907 people injured and nearly 93,000 displaced, the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) said Thursday.BNPB acting data and communications chief Berton Panjaitan said four

The US national debt has exceeded $40 trillion for the first time in history, according to Treasury Department data released on Wednesday. The ominous milestone comes less than five years after the debt passed the $30-trillion mark in January 2022, a rise of more than one-third in that period.

Clapping to the beat and humming the famous Chinese folk song "Jasmine Flower," one of the African delegates at the 7th China-Africa Media Cooperation Forum joined Unitree robots in an impromptu joint rendition of the classic Chinese melody, with the robots playing guitar and drums, in Beijing on

China said on Thursday that its development has brought opportunities rather than "China Shock," and empowerment rather than a "China Squeeze" to the world, firmly rejecting narratives that portray China's development as detrimental to other countries.

Five people were killed in a traffic accident midnight Wednesday after a pickup truck overturned on the Wadi al-Zina road in central Lebanon's Chouf District, the Lebanese Civil Defense said.A Lebanese security source told Xinhua the crash occurred after the vehicle suffered brake failure, causing

Recently, young Chinese mathematicians Wang Hong and Deng Yu had won the Fields Medal; Chinese large models like DeepSeek continue to expand their influence within the global developer ecosystem; and Unitree Robotics keeps driving the deployment of humanoid robots and embodied AI into real-world

South Africa has returned the ancestral remains of 84 Namibians, along with the remains of two political prisoners who died in detention during the apartheid era, in a solemn ceremony held in Cape Town on Wednesday.The coffins, draped in the Namibian flag, were formally handed over to a Namibian

China on Thursday expressed firm opposition to US Section 232 measures, which it believed, amounted to unilateralism and protectionism under the pretext of national security, urging the US to immediately withdraw the relevant Section 232 tariffs targeting imported drones and drone components, a

A woman died and at least two other people were injured as severe storms caused extensive damage overnight across parts of Germany.In Waldorf, in the southwestern state of Rhineland-Palatinate, a woman was struck by a falling tree and fatally injured, the German news agency dpa reported Thursday.

The bodies of two Belgian mountaineers who went missing in the Swiss Alps more than three decades ago have been found, officials said.Police in the southwestern Valais region, which has a database of people listed as missing over the last century, said the retreat of glaciers has led to the

‍‍Forget the long lines at Roman ruins and overpriced gelato -- sweating tourists are enjoying a break from the scorching heat by rafting on the Eternal City's Tiber River.A welcome change from the beaten tourist track, river rafting on the Tiber -- long the lifeblood of the ancient city -- is a

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Thursday that it is necessary to remain highly vigilant against the rhetoric and actions of Japan's right-wing forces that seek to turn back the wheel of history and that the resurgence of Japanese militarism must never be allowed.Wang, also a member of the