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BEIJING, May 9 (Xinhua/APP):The fifth cross-Strait youth development forum is scheduled to be held on May 11 in Hangzhou, capital of east China’s Zhejiang Province, said a Chinese mainland spokesperson on Monday. Hung Hsiu-chu, former chairperson of the Chinese Kuomintang party, will attend the forum, […]

Rio de Janeiro, May 9 (AFP/APP):One year after 28 people were killed in the bloodiest police raid in Rio de Janeiro history, the tension is still palpable in the Jacarezinho slum, where authorities have deployed a massive law enforcement operation. Brazil marked the first anniversary […]

Beirut, May 8 (AFP/APP):Lebanese expatriates in 48 countries including France and the United Arab Emirates voted Sunday ahead of the May 15 parliamentary elections, state media reported. The critical election comes amid an unprecedented financial crisis that has spurred a mass population exodus, with opposition […]

VIENTIANE, May 7 (Xinhua/APP): The Lao government on Saturday announced a full reopening of all international checkpoints, allowing vaccinated arrivals to enter the country without any testing requirements. The government spokesperson and deputy head of the Prime Minister’s Office, Thipphakone Chanthavongsa, told a press conference […]

London, May 6 (AFP/APP):Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative party lost control of key councils in London, according to partial results from local and regional UK elections on Friday, with a potentially historic change looming in Northern Ireland. The main UK opposition Labour party of Keir […]

Havana, May 6 (AFP/APP): Rescuers searched for victims Friday after a powerful explosion ripped through a hotel under refurbishment in central Havana, with no casualties immediately reported. Shortly after 11:00 am, a cloud of dust and smoke billowed from the Saratoga Hotel after the blast […]

London, May 6 (AFP/APP): Queen Elizabeth’s son Prince Andrew, her grandson Harry and his wife Meghan will not join her on the Buckingham Palace balcony for this year’s Trooping the Colour, royal officials said on Friday. Instead, the 96-year-old monarch has decided to limit numbers […]

UNITED NATIONS, May 06 (APP): After hitting a record high in March, food prices around the world eased slightly in April, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), a Rome-based UN agency, said Friday. The FAO Food Price Index averaged 158.2 points in April, down […]

Kyiv, Ukraine, May 6 (AFP/APP): Fifty Ukrainians were evacuated from the Azovstal steel plant in the battered city of Mariupol Friday, officials in Kyiv said. “Today we were able to evacuate from Azovstal 50 women, children and elderly people,” Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said […]

The Hague, May 6 (AFP/APP): Two people were shot dead and two wounded on Friday at a “care farm” in the Netherlands for people with mental or social issues, police and local media said. Dutch police said they arrested a man and recovered a firearm […]