Ilie Bolojan, interim president of the National Liberal Party (PNL), was elected president of the Senate, the upper house, with 70 votes in favor, defeating Mircia Chelaru from the Save Romania Union ...

Data for the last quarter of the year do not look promising. Last week, Britain's central bank, the Bank of England, forecast zero GDP growth in the fourth quarter, weaker than the 0.3 percent growth ...

BEIJING, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- China's national observatory issued a blue alert on Monday evening for Typhoon Pabuk, which is expected to bring strong winds and heavy rain to the country's southern ...

GAZA, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- More than 50 Palestinians were killed or injured in an Israeli military operation in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, according to the Hamas-run media ...

Sculptors work on a giant snow sculpture at the 37th Sun Island International Snow Sculpture Expo in Harbin, northeast ...

BEIJING, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- A spokesperson for China's Ministry of National Defense on Monday condemned U.S. arms sales to the Taiwan region, reiterating that the Taiwan question is the first red ...

BEIJING, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- When meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden on the sidelines of the 31st APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in the Peruvian capital of Lima, Chinese President Xi Jinping ...

TEHRAN, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said on Monday the country has no direct link with the ruling group in Syria. He made the remarks at a press conference ...

FUZHOU, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- China's top procuratorate said procuratorial technologies have played an increasingly prominent role in the case-handling of procuratorates, as the number of cases handled ...

This two-story wooden house, adorned with distinctive ethnic designs, intricate carvings and ornate patterns, was once a rural home in southwest China's Yunnan Province. It now stands amidst the woods ...

MOSCOW, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- Two people were killed and four others injured in an explosion at a former mechanical plant in Russia's Khakassia region, local media reported Monday, citing regional ...

JOHANNESBURG, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- South Africa has had no load-shedding, or rolling blackouts, for 272 days as of Dec. 23, the longest stretch of uninterrupted power supply in five years, Minister of ...