DAR ES SALAAM, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Tanzanian Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa on Tuesday announced five major initiatives aimed at enhancing the country's capacity to respond to natural and human-made ...

OTTAWA, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Canada's Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 1.7 percent year over year in July, down from a 1.9 percent increase in June, Statistics Canada said Tuesday. Gasoline prices led ...

CAIRO, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian police killed eight drug and arms traffickers in a shootout at their hideouts on Nile islands, north of Cairo, the Egyptian Interior Ministry said Tuesday in a ...

LONDON, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- New research from Britain's Met Office on Tuesday revealed that Britons spend an average of 56.6 hours a year discussing the weather, underscoring the nation's enduring ...

Speaking at the Fourth Nairobi Caucus, a two-day regional counter-terrorism forum held in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, the officials stressed that secure borders are key to preventing radicalized ...

1. Both sides positively evaluated the progress made in implementing the important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries since their meeting in Kazan, and noted that the boundary ...

Fourth, both sides agreed to explore the resumption of various intergovernmental bilateral dialogue and exchange mechanisms to strengthen cooperation, address each other's concerns, and properly ...

HARARE, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- China's success in rural revitalization can serve as an inspiration for Zimbabwe's development path, a Zimbabwean scholar said on Tuesday.

The study, published in Nature's Communications Earth and Environment, found that species of Firmicutes bacteria, including Bacillus, form microscopic protective coatings that shield themselves from ...

NEW DELHI, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met here on Tuesday with visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who is also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist ...

ABUJA, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- At least 13 people were shot dead when a group of gunmen attacked a mosque during early morning prayers in Nigeria's northern state of Katsina on Tuesday, a local official ...

NAIROBI, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- African financial experts kicked off a two-day meeting on Tuesday in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, to seek ways of combating money laundering and countering the financing ...