WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday paid honor to healthcare workers who have treated Ebola patients in West Africa, calling them heroes deserving to be applauded rather than discouraged. U.S. President Barack Oba...
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LUSAKA, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- Zambian President Michael Sata has died of undisclosed illness in London after medical check-up, the Zambian government said on Wednesday. The file photo taken on Jan. 31, 2014 shows Zambian President Michael Sata attendin...
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An emergency UN Security Council meeting was held on Wednesday, as tensions intensified over Israel's announcement to build some 1,000 new settlement units in it occupied East Jerusalem, the part of the city Palestinians demand for their future state...
Russia says it will recognize election results held in eastern Ukraine by anti-government rebels. But Washington warns the elections are illegal, and violate the international commitment to which Moscow agreed last month. The self-declared republics...
Health officials from 32 nations have met in Cuba to discuss plans to contain the Ebola epidemic. The meeting was organized by ALBA, a nine-nation bloc led by socialist allies Venezuela and Cuba. They held a summit in Havana last week in which presid...
After talks with South Korean officials, the US Special Envoy for the Six-Party Talks on the DPRK's nuclear issue, Sydney Seiler, will arrive in Beijing today on his second stop. On Wednesday, the US envoy met with the South Korean Director-General o...
The Japanese delegation said they travelled to the DPRK to learn in detail about the latest investigation into the abduction of Japanese citizens by the DPRK in the 1970s and 80s. The DPRK has refused to disclose details of the two-day meetings, or w...
Egypt has begun to clear residents from its border-area with the Gaza Strip, as it tries to create a 500-metre wide buffer zone along its 10-kilometre border with Gaza. On Tuesday evening, local residents in more than one thousand homes were forced t...
There are some footage for you of the moment when an unmanned NASA rocket bound for the International Space Station, exploded upon launch on Tuesday evening. These are amateur videos gathered by the Associated Press. The rocket blew up over the Virgi...
The APEC leaders meeting will open in Beijing in ten days time, on November the 8th. Leaders of Asia-Pacific nations last met in China 13 years ago... amid a very different regional economic landscape. Speaking at a regular foreign affairs forum in B...
Foreign Minister Wang Yi has also been speaking about the attendence of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the APEC leaders meeting in Beijing. Wang Yi says hell be welcomed as a guest.... but he insisted that a number of obstacles still stand in...