HELSINKI, July 31 (Xinhua) -- Senior officials, civil society leaders, and international organizations gathered in Helsinki on Thursday to mark the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act, renewing ...

NEW YORK, July 31 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks ended lower on Thursday, as investors eyed the approaching deadline for U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs.

The Moscow-St. Petersburg route will be Russia's first high-speed railroad, a specialized electrified double-track line on which trains can travel at speeds from 200 to 400 kph. Trains are expected to ...

OTTAWA, July 31 (Xinhua) -- Canada's real gross domestic product (GDP) dipped 0.1 percent in May for the second consecutive month, Statistics Canada said Thursday.

ABU DHABI/BAGHDAD/JERUSALEM, July 31 (Xinhua) -- The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Iraq on Thursday welcomed recent announcements by several countries regarding the recognition of the State of ...

BEIRUT/JERUSALEM -- Israeli warplanes carried out intensive airstrikes Thursday on multiple areas in eastern and southern Lebanon, targeting sites belonging to the Lebanese group Hezbollah, according ...

WARSAW, July 31 (Xinhua) -- Poland commemorated the 81st anniversary of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising on Thursday with a solemn Roll Call of Remembrance in front of the Warsaw Uprising Monument in the ...

WASHINGTON, July 31 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday sent 17 letters to pharmaceutical companies' CEOs in an attempt to pressure them to lower drug prices within 60 days, ...

ALMATY, July 31 (Xinhua) -- Kazakhstan plans to raise oil exports through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline to 1.7 million tonnes in 2025, the Interfax-Kazakhstan news agency reported Thursday, ...

The United Nations and its partners insist on reaching Palestinians in need through community-based distribution points, numbering 400 across Gaza, rather than the four militarized Israeli and ...

LONDON, July 31 (Xinhua) -- Mounting civilian suffering and humanitarian crises in Gaza are pushing European powers toward formal recognition of the State of Palestine, exposing a widening rift ...

ISMAILIA, Egypt, July 31 (Xinhua) -- Chairman of the Suez Canal Authority Osama Rabie said on Thursday that the Suez Canal has generated 153.4 billion U.S. dollars in revenues and facilitated the ...