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The cases come amid growing concern across Europe and the West at China's ramping up of its worldwide spying activity as it builds political influence to match its economic weight.

In his speech Wednesday, Vladmir Putin proposed amending the constitution to expand the powers of parliament, the prime minister and a body called the State Council.

For the first time in the report's 10-year outlook, the top five global risks in terms of likelihood are all environmental -- extreme weather events, human-made environmental disasters, major biodiversity loss, natural disasters, and failure of climate ch...

Trade with BRI partner countries totalled 9.27 trillion yuan (about $1.34 trillion) in 2019, outpacing the country's aggregate trade growth by 7.4 percentage points.

At the first debate since a US air strike killed an Iranian military commander, elevating foreign policy concerns, Sanders said he and Biden listened to the same arguments by President George W. Bush and top officials in his administration at the time "an...

Further upping the pressure on the American deployment, Katyusha rockets on Tuesday night targeted an Iraqi airbase north of Baghdad where US-led coalition forces are based.

The explosions took place in the city of Mazr-i Sharif, the provincial capital of Balkh province, said Adil Shah Adil, the provincial police chief's spokesman.

The People's Congress of Tibet on Saturday passed the legislation, which will take effect from May 1, 'guaranteeing ethnic unity in the territory'.

The contract for some 18 million euros (USD 20 million) calls for Siemens to supply rail infrastructure for the Carmichael mine in Queensland, near the Great Barrier Reef.

The fire seared an area of national park three times the size of Greater London and lit several connected blazes totalling over 800,000 hectares -- an area larger than Austria.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador also promised to keep relatives appraised of the investigation into the ambush carried out by cartel gunmen two months ago.

The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for Mississippi early on Saturday.

Last August, a former Google employee, Jennifer Blakely, published a report of her relationship with Drummond. Drummond has acknowledged a relationship with Blakely.

A police spokesman in the capital Bishkek said the crime, which saw journalist Bolot Temirov attacked outside his media outlet's office on Thursday, had been registered as a theft.

Some 5,200 US soldiers are stationed at bases across Iraq to support local troops preventing a resurgence of the Islamic State group.

The planned negotiations come as the two allies were under pressure to clinch a fresh deal on determining how much Seoul should pay for keeping some 28,500 US soldiers on its soil.