Early Saturday morning, the US Senate approved critical legislation to fund the government through March 14, narrowly avoiding a government shutdown.
The bill now heads to President Joe Biden's desk for his signature.
The legislation, part of the (...)
Representatives from Germany, Finland and Denmark have boarded a Chinese cargo ship believed to be connected to the rupture of two data cables on the Baltic Sea bed in November.
Swedish police and Chinese officials were also part of the inspection (...)
The People's Republic of China has a "magic weapon", according to its founding leader Mao Zedong and its current president Xi Jinping.
It is called the United Front Work Department – and it is raising as much alarm in the West as Beijing's growing (...)
An American citizen has pleaded guilty to helping run what has been described as the first known secret police station in the US on behalf of the Chinese government.
Prosecutors say Chen Jinping and his co-defendant Lu Jianwang opened and operated (...)
China says two of its astronauts completed a nine-hour spacewalk Tuesday, a figure that beats the US-held record for the world's longest spacewalk set in 2001, in the latest milestone in the country's ambitious space program.
Cai Xuzhe and Song (...)
RIYADH — The General Authority of Foreign Trade (GAFT) has announced the imposition of definitive anti-dumping measures on imports of PVC-coated textiles and fabrics originating from China and South Korea.
Dr. Majed Al-Qasabi, minister of commerce (...)
Last year, India nudged past China to become the world's most populous country, according to UN estimates.
With nearly 1.45 billion people now, you'd think the country would be quiet about having more children. But guess what? The chatter has (...)
The end, when it came for the BGP5 barracks, was loud and brutal. First, a crackly speaker calling out for their surrender; then, a thunderous barrage of artillery, rockets and rifle fire that tore chunks out of the buildings in which hundreds of (...)
A federal court in St Louis has indicted 14 North Koreans for allegedly being part of a long-running conspiracy aimed at extorting funds from US companies and funneling money to Pyongyang's weapons programs.
The wider scheme allegedly involves (...)
اختتم المربع الجديد، إحدى شركات الصندوق ورائد التطوير الحضري المبتكر، المشاركة في قمة المعرض العالمي للقطاع العقاري (MIPIM Asia)، التي عقدت في هونغ كونغ بين 3 و4 ديسمبر، بصفة الشركة الشريك البلاتيني الوحيد. وتعد القمة حدثاً عقارياً مرموقاً جمع أبرز (...)
A 92-year-old Japanese man who lived through the American atomic bombing of Nagasaki called for the abolition of all nuclear weapons, as he accepted this year's Nobel Peace Prize on Tuesday.
"Imagine this: there are 4,000 nuclear warheads that could (...)
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday said Russia had abandoned its longtime ally, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, forcing him to flee the country following the opposition's capture of Damascus.
"Assad is gone. He has fled his country. His (...)
BEIJING — Saudi Minister of Health Fahad Al-Jalajel met with Chinese Minister of the National Health Commission (NHC) Lei Haichao on Thursday during his official visit to the People's Republic of China.
The two ministers discussed opportunities for (...)
BEIJING — Saudi Arabia and China have signed 24 agreements aimed to further enhance economic cooperation between the two countries. The agreements were signed on the sidelines of the Saudi-Chinese Business Council Forum, which was held in the (...)
The reach and credibility of international law is at its lowest in years as governments dismiss arrest warrants in some of the most high-profile cases to come before the International Criminal Court.
In the past 18 months, the Hague-based court has (...)
Chiung Yao, arguably the world's most popular Chinese language romance novelist, has died in an apparent suicide.
The 86-year-old's body was found in her home in New Taipei City on Wednesday, local media report. Emergency services said she took her (...)
The Philippines says the China Coast Guard has fired water cannon and "sideswiped" a government vessel in the South China Sea.
The incident happened near the disputed Scarborough Shoal and Beijing said it acted "in accordance with the law".
The US (...)
An Islamic school teacher, Masud Abdulrasheed, is struggling to come to terms with the killing of his seven-year-old daughter in drone strikes by Nigeria's military during a religious festival in their large but sparsely populated village exactly a (...)
RIYADH — Minister of Commerce and Chairman of the General Authority of Foreign Trade (GAFT) Majed Al-Qasabi has issued a decision to impose definitive anti-dumping measures on imports of the Sulphonated Naphthalene Formaldehyde (SNF) originating in (...)
Norway has paused its controversial project to open up its seabed for commercial-scale deep-sea mining.
Oslo had planned to let companies apply to mine 280,000 sq km (108,000 sq miles) of its waters for precious metals -- an area bigger than the (...)
SHENZHEN — Minister of Health Fahad Al-Jalajel marked a significant milestone in Saudi-Chinese health cooperation during his visit to Shenzhen, China, with the signing of key memoranda of understanding (MoUs) with leading Chinese companies BGI Group (...)
JAKARTA — Prince Turki Al-Faisal, Chairman of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, emphasized that the world does not need a third world war to establish a new international order.
He underlined the vital role that middle powers (...)
Sweden has formally asked China to cooperate with an investigation into damage to two cables in the Baltic Sea after a Chinese ship was linked to the incidents.
The cables — one linking Sweden to Lithuania and the other between Finland and Germany — (...)
China has suspended a top military official and placed him under investigation for corruption, the defense ministry said, as leader Xi Jinping broadens a sweeping purge in the upper ranks of the world's largest military.
Admiral Miao Hua, a member (...)
