Profits of China’s major industrial firms up 17.6 pct in first seven months
Profits of China’s industrial firms above a designated size increased 17.6 percent year on year during the first seven months of 2026, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed…
Gaza truce and two-state prospects at risk as settlement plan advances, France warns
France’s UN Ambassador Jerome Bonnafont speaks as the United Nations Security Council. (File/UN photo) France warned the UN Security Council on Wednesday that the “untenable” situation in Gaza and the…
Xi to attend SCO summit, pay state visits to Kyrgyzstan, Egypt
From Aug. 30 to Sept. 3, Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit 2026 in Bishkek and pay a state visit to Kyrgyzstan and Egypt…
Govt forms high-powered body to break deadlock over Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline amid penalty threats
With millions of dollars in potential penalties looming, the government has constituted a high-powered committee to find a “mutually acceptable” way out of the decades-old impasse over the Pakistan-Iran gas…
Xi urges all-out rescue, relief efforts after mudslide hits border port in Xizang
Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered all-out efforts to search and rescue people who are missing after a mudslide in Nepal caused casualties at Gyirong border port in southwest China’s…
Malta joins international condemnation of Israeli West Bank settlement plan
Malta has joined an expanding group of nations condemning Israel’s plans for a major settlement project in the occupied West Bank. Malta and Denmark were added as signatories to a…