WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday slashed interest rates by 50 basis points amid cooling inflation and a weakening labor market, marking the first rate cut in over ...

THE HAGUE, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- The Netherlands has formally requested an opt-out from the European Union (EU)'s asylum rules, Dutch Minister of Asylum and Migration Marjolein Faber said Wednesday.

HANNOVER, Germany, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- "China is transforming from a consumer market into a center of knowledge and innovation," said Stefan Hartung, chairman of Robert Bosch GmbH, in an exclusive ...

Israeli aircraft bombed the "Ibn Al-Haytham" school housing displaced people in the Shuja'iyya neighborhood, Palestinian security sources told Xinhua. "Our teams recovered the bodies of eight victims, ...

CAIRO, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- As U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken embarked on his 10th diplomatic mission to the Middle East since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas conflict, Egyptian political ...

"The West continues to exploit the notion of promoting and protecting democracy as a tool to subjugate nations and break the will of their people," the ministry stated, singling out Washington's ...

NEW YORK, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday sued the owner and manager of the cargo ship that caused the Baltimore bridge collapse, seeking to recover more than 100 million ...

HARARE, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- As Zimbabwe grapples with one of its worst El Nino-induced droughts in decades, the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has stepped up food aid distribution in the ...

BUDAPEST, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- The European Union (EU) accession process for the Western Balkan countries must be accelerated, Hungary's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto said here ...

KIEV, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- The Ukrainian parliament voted on Wednesday to allocate an additional 495.3 billion hryvnias (about 11.96 billion U.S. dollars) for defense, the country's Finance Ministry ...

AMMAN, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- An Arab-Islamic ministerial committee for Gaza held a coordination meeting here on Wednesday to discuss efforts to stop the war in Gaza and support the recognition of the ...

JUBA, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- The extension of the transitional period for the South Sudanese administration and the postponement of national elections for two years was approved by a monitoring ...