KUWAIT CITY, July 17 (Xinhua) -- The Kuwaiti government on Thursday reviewed progress on a series of development projects agreed upon with China, and directed a ministerial committee to step up ...

JERUSALEM, July 17 (Xinhua) -- Israel "deeply regrets" a bombing of Gaza's only Catholic church on Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, in an attack that killed three people and ...

HELSINKI, July 17 (Xinhua) -- Volcanic activity on southwestern Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula is declining, prompting civil protection authorities to lower the alert level from "emergency" to "threat, ...

LONDON, July 17 (Xinhua) -- An annual survey of British public opinion on foreign policy has found that Britain's once-hailed "special relationship" with the United States is weakening under U.S.

The company reaffirmed its full-year guidance, projecting flat core earnings at constant currency and low-single-digit organic revenue growth. PepsiCo now expects core earnings per share to decline ...

BAGHDAD, July 17 (Xinhua) -- Three explosive-laden drones attacked on Thursday the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan in northern Iraq, local authorities said.

MOSCOW, July 17 (Xinhua) -- Russia has lodged a protest against Japan for its participation in a large-scale U.S. military exercise, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Thursday.

Julius Migos Ogamba, Kenya's cabinet secretary in the Ministry of Education, said that the academy, to be based at the Technical University of Kenya (TUK) in Nairobi, was developed in partnership with ...

HARARE, July 17 (Xinhua) -- The increasing presence of Chinese companies is boosting Zimbabwe's job market, a Zimbabwean economic analyst said Thursday.

ISLAMABAD, July 17 (Xinhua) -- Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday directed departments to prepare a comprehensive action plan for providing easy-term loans to small and medium-scale ...

DAMASCUS, July 17 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from the deadly violence in Syria's southern province of Sweida has reached 516, as sporadic clashes broke out on Thursday between Druze fighters and ...

TOKYO, July 17 (Xinhua) -- The approval rating for the cabinet of Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba slipped 6.2 percentage points from the previous month to 20.8 percent in July, marking its ...