On Tuesday, Syrian interim leader Ahmad al-Sharaa received a separate delegation of Saudi business leaders, including ACWA Power Chairman Mohammad Abunayyan and Al Muhaidib Group Chairman Suleiman ...

DAR ES SALAAM, July 23 (Xinhua) -- Tanzania's Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday instructed election officials to begin consultations with political party leaders to ensure ...

KUALA LUMPUR, July 23 (Xinhua) -- The Malaysian government will begin enforcement of its minimum wage policy starting Aug. 1, the Human Resources Ministry said. The government had raised the minimum ...

TEHRAN, July 23 (Xinhua) -- A helicopter of the Iranian navy on Wednesday warned a U.S. destroyer against approaching Iran's territorial waters in the Gulf of Oman, forcing it to change its course, ...

DAMASCUS, July 23 (Xinhua) -- A humanitarian aid convoy operated by the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) entered the southern city of Sweida, the namesake provincial capital, on Wednesday, delivering ...

DHAKA, July 23 (Xinhua) -- Bangladesh witnessed a significant spike in dengue cases so far in July, with over 8,000 cases and 27 deaths. Four new death cases were reported on Wednesday, taking the ...

ACCRA, July 23 (Xinhua) -- Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama has officially forwarded a detailed report on electoral violence during the 2020 and 2024 general elections for legal review and ...

YAOUNDE, July 23 (Xinhua) -- Cameroon head coach of the national men's football team, Marc Brys resigned on Wednesday citing "contract violations" as the reason for his departure.

Indonesia is frequently affected by forest and land fires, a major contributor to regional haze and greenhouse gas emissions. The country faces increasingly prolonged and drier dry seasons, making it ...

VICTORIA FALLS, Zimbabwe, July 23 (Xinhua) -- China has been playing a major role in global wetland preservation, Musonda Mumba, secretary general of the Convention on Wetlands, said on Wednesday.

"High mortgage rates are causing home sales to remain stuck at cyclical lows," said NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun. "If the average mortgage rates were to decline to 6 percent, our scenario analysis ...

ULAN BATOR, July 23 (Xinhua) -- The Mongolian banking sector's net foreign assets fell 60.2 percent year-on-year to reach 3.9 trillion Mongolian tugriks (about 1.08 billion U.S. dollars) in June, ...