China’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew 5 percent year on year in 2025, meeting the annual target of around 5 percent, official data showed Monday. China’s GDP reached a record of 140.1879 trillion yuan (about 20.01 trillion U.S. dollars) last year, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)Continue Reading
AFCON Final Full Time: Senegal 1:0 Morocco After a chaotic scene and protest by the Senegalese team, Senegal eventually defeated Morocco 1-0 after extra-time to win the AFCON 2025 title at the Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium, on Sunday. (GSF)Continue Reading
Iran’s Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned a recent “meddlesome” remark by the Group of Seven (G7) states concerning the recent unrest in the country. The ministry described the joint statement issued earlier this week by the foreign ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Britain and the United States,Continue Reading
Major General Soren Andersen, Denmark’s Joint Arctic Command in Greenland, denied US President Donald Trump’s claims that Chinese and Russian ships are circling around Greenland and confirmed that he had not seen any Russian or Chinese combat ships in the area in the two and a half years heContinue Reading
Specific arrangements reached between China and Canada to properly address trade issues related to electric vehicles, steel and aluminum products, canola, and agricultural and aquatic product have sparked varied responses from the US and Canada itself, with certain US officials claiming Canada would regret the decision of allowing theContinue Reading
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said on Saturday that Iran had defeated the United States and Israel “once again” and had “extinguished the sedition” he alleged was incited by Washington and Tel Aviv. Speaking during an address marking a religious holiday, Khamenei’s remarks came as Iranian authorities appeared toContinue Reading
Sri Lankan police introduced a new mouth swab test from Saturday to detect drivers under the influence of drugs, as part of efforts to curb road accidents linked to impaired driving, a senior police officer said. Deputy Inspector General of Traffic Control and Road Safety W. P. J. SenadeeraContinue Reading
The Chinese Embassy in Zimbabwe on Friday donated daily necessities and stationery to a school for children with disabilities in Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital. After receiving the donation at the Jairos Jiri Centre Primary School, school head Kudzanai Baramasimbe expressed gratitude to the Chinese community for the donation, saying itContinue Reading
Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in Beijing on Friday. Xi noted that their meeting in October last year in Gyeongju, Republic of Korea, opened a new phase of positive development in China-Canada relations, and both sides conducted in-depth discussions on restoring and resumingContinue Reading
Chinese President Xi Jinping received the credentials of 18 new ambassadors to China in Beijing on Friday. The ambassadors are: — Selcuk Unal from Turkiye — Wolf Dietrich Heim from Austria — Peter Wilson from the United Kingdom — Ahmad T. A. Berwari from Iraq — Koula Sophianou fromContinue Reading
