U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday that Washington welcomed the prospect of direct talks between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin, urging them to make compromises to end the years-long conflict. “I’m glad that they’re maybe talking about meeting,” Trump told reporters at the White House,Continue Reading
The Third World Conference of Sinologists, which concluded on Thursday in Dunhuang, a key hub on the ancient Silk Road in Gansu Province, brought together more than 300 scholars and cultural figures from around 70 countries. Many participants at the conference said the renewed interest in the Chinese cultureContinue Reading
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky can come to Moscow any time if he wishes to hold talks, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday. Zelensky published a letter earlier Thursday proposing a face-to-face meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, with the participation of Europe and the United States, to discuss theContinue Reading
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Chinese president, will pay a state visit to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) from June 8 to 9 at the invitation of Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea andContinue Reading
Russian President Vladimir Putin has called Tanzanian leader Samia Suluhu Hassan’s choice of Russia for her first state visit after her inauguration for second term in office as a “good sign”. He made the statement during the open part of talks with the visiting Tanzanian counterpart at the Kremlin.Continue Reading
The 29th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) opened here on Wednesday, bringing together about 20,000 representatives from political, business and academic circles from more than 100 countries and territories. The four-day event, themed “Pragmatic Dialogue: The Path to a Stable Future,” focuses on fostering new models of globalContinue Reading
Betting on “Taiwan independence” has no future and will only cost Eswatini its development opportunities, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Wednesday. According to media in Africa and the Taiwan region, before and after Lai Ching-te’s visit to Eswatini, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities provided theContinue Reading
CGTN The world’s largest offshore converter station, known as the “Heart of Offshore Wind,” has arrived at the installation site of the Qingzhou offshore wind farm in Yangjiang, south China’s Guangdong Province. Offshore float-over installation operations are scheduled to begin on Thursday. The “Heart of Offshore Wind” is theContinue Reading
China is steadily expanding the opening up of the telecom sector, with 166 foreign-funded enterprises having received approvals for pilot operations in value-added telecom services since the first batch of such approvals was issued in February 2025, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said on Wednesday. These enterprisesContinue Reading
The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday elected Austria, Kyrgyzstan, Portugal, Trinidad and Tobago and Zimbabwe to the 15-member U.N. Security Council for two-year terms starting on January 1, 2027. Germany, which had lobbied hard for a seat, came third for the two places contested by the Western EuropeanContinue Reading
