France has cut its 2026 economic growth forecast to 0.7 percent from 0.9 percent, the country's Economy and Finance Minister Roland Lescure said on Tuesday at a meeting of the Public Finance Alert ...

China's National Financial Regulatory Administration and the Shanghai municipal government have jointly rolled out a series of measures to develop Shanghai into a global reinsurance hub, the two ...

The next round of talks between Israel and Lebanon is expected to take place in Rome, Italy next week, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar said on Tuesday. The meeting will mark the sixth round of ...

Indonesia's state revenue reached 1,459.4 trillion rupiah (around 81 billion U.S. dollars) in the first half of 2026, or 46.3 percent of the annual target, Minister of Finance Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa ...

China on Tuesday marked the 89th anniversary of the beginning of its whole-nation resistance war against Japanese aggression. Yin Li, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China ...

Rising star Zhang Ziyu scored 28 points, but costly turnovers saw China's women's basketball team fall 76-74 to Australia in a World Cup warm-up game in Melbourne on Tuesday. Coming off the bench and ...

Real Sociedad has extended coach Pellegrino Matarazzo's contract by one year, keeping the American at the Spanish club through June 2028. The 48-year-old, who took charge midway through last season ...

Uganda will send a team to the World Short Course Swimming Championships in Beijing from Dec. 1-6, the country's swimming governing body confirmed Tuesday. Moses Mwase, president of Uganda Aquatics, ...

Aymeric Laporte and Cristiano Ronaldo experienced contrasting emotions after Spain eliminated Portugal from the World Cup on Monday. While Ronaldo left the field in tears following Portugal's exit in ...

From July 3 to 6, the 62nd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) held an urgent debate on the human rights situation in and around El-Obeid, North Kordofan, Sudan. Li Xiaomei, ...

Zimbabwean power utility ZESA Holdings said on Tuesday that it has restored electricity to most parts of the country after a major technical fault plunged the entire nation into darkness on Monday ...

China's top economic planner said Tuesday that 30 million yuan (about 4.4 million U.S. dollars) has been allocated in central natural disaster relief funds to support local relief and restoration work ...