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Saudi Arabia announced Saturday its preliminary budget statement for 2024 with an expected 1.9 percent deficit of the GDP.The Saudi finance ministry projected total expenditures for fiscal 2024, which is identical to a calendar year in the kingdom, at 1,251 billion Saudi Riyals (about 333.5 billion ...
A vessel loaded with nickel matte docked at the Qinzhou Port in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region at 10 a.m., and merely four hours later, the nickel product imported from Indonesia was delivered to a nearby factory's production line for further processing.Located in the Beibu G...
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UN General Assembly President Dennis Francis on Thursday urged the Afghan authorities to reconsider their decision to ban women and girls from proper education.Afghan women and girls, like men, have inalienable rights - human rights that must be upheld and honored, said Francis."So I would urge...
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Three people were shot dead in a targeted attack in Atlanta, the southeastern U.S. state of Georgia, on Saturday afternoon, said local police. Officers responded to a call reporting that someone had been shot in the city's West End neighborhood around 1:30 p.m. (1730 GMT), the Associated Pr...
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UN peacekeeping operations are confronted with a multitude of challenges, with the most significant being the division among member states, the UN peacekeeping chief said on Friday."Peacekeeping operations are facing a number of challenges. The biggest challenges of all is the division across o...
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Friday said that some 5.3 million have fled from the war in Sudan since mid-April when the conflict broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF)."With fight...
Following the EU's latest announcement to launch an anti-subsidy probe into Chinese electric vehicles (EVs), experts warned against the consequences of imposing any measures and deemed cooperation the best solution.China believes that the investigation proposed by the EU is a practice of pure &q...
Xinhua, UNITED NATIONSUN peacekeeping operations are confronted with a multitude of challenges, with the most significant being the division among member states, the UN peacekeeping chief said on Friday."Peacekeeping operations are facing a number of challenges. The biggest challenges of all is...
A recent report estimated that the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) will help Bangladesh's real gross domestic product (GDP) growth by at least 2.1 percent, generate an additional 2.5 percent to 5.1 percent of employment, and decrease extreme poverty by 1.3 percent.The report, titled "The Bel...
One out of 10 people in Japan is now aged 80 or older, while the ratio of elderly to the total population rose to a record high, ministry data showed Sunday.Japan's elderly citizens, defined as those aged 65 and above, saw their percentage in the overall population at a historic high of 29.1 per...
Foreign direct investment (FDI) in the Chinese mainland in actual use stood at 847.17 billion yuan (about 118 billion U.S. dollars) in the first eight months of the year, the Ministry of Commerce said Friday.The figure decreased 5.1 percent from a year earlier, said the ministry. The decline was due...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that the normalisation of relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel remains "difficult," and that any agreement between the two should address issues with Palestine. The secretary gave those remarks in response to a question from a press con...
During the 31st Universiade held recently in the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu, buses adorned with giant panda-themed elements shuttling through the streets were a common sight.In addition to their distinctive appearance, what set these buses apart was they were powered by hydrogen fuel cells...
The Arab League (AL) on Sunday welcomed the admission of the African Union (AU) as a permanent member to the Group of 20 (G20), expressing hope that the pan-Arab organization would enjoy the same status.AL Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul-Gheit welcomed in a statement the G20 leaders' decision on A...
The benchmark index of international food commodity prices has declined 2.1 percent compared to July, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said Friday. The prices of rice, however, surged by 9.8 percent in August to a 15-year high compared to a month earlier. The increase ...
At least 49 civilians and 15 soldiers were killed Thursday during a dual terrorist attack in northern Mali, the Malian government said in a statement.Claimed by the Group to Support Islam and Muslims (GSIM), the two attacks targeted the passengers of the boat "Tombouctou" and a military ca...
The 23rd China International Fair for Investment and Trade (CIFIT) opened Friday in Xiamen, east China's Fujian Province, to boost investment and bolster global economic recovery.The four-day event, themed "Open and Integrated: Key to High-Quality Development," kicked off with an openi...
The 43rd Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit concluded in Jakarta, Indonesia on Thursday with a series of outcomes despite rising uncertainties globally."Within three days, 12 summits have been held, resulting in 90 outcome documents and a number of concrete agreements with pa...
Stem cell researchers created artificial models of human embryos and successfully grew them outside the womb up to day 14, the Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) in central Israel said in a statement on Wednesday.In a new study published in the journal Science, the researchers created artificial st...
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