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40 Iranian pilgrims killed in Iraq’s suicide bomb attack

TEHRAN, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) — Iran’s Foreign Ministry announced on Friday that at least 40 Iranian pilgrims were killed in Iraq’s Thursday suicide bomb attack, State IRINN TV reported. Also, 20 other Iranian pilgrims were injured in the attack, Iran’s deputy Foreign Minister Hassan Qashqavi was quoted as saying. A suicide tanker truck bomb attack […]

Syria’s Assad hails Russia’s stance as “natural superpower”

DAMASCUS, Nov. 23 (NsNewsWire) — Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad hailed on Tuesday the Russian stance regarding the war on terror in Syria, saying such a stance proves Moscow’s “natural statues” as a superpower. Dmitry Rogozin, the head of the Russian delegation to Syria and Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, said the main goal […]

Can China overtake US to lead the world?

Discussions were running high on global governance among Western public opinion on the eve of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders meeting in Lima, Peru. Some Western media outlets hold the US is giving up its global leadership following Donald Trump‘s election as US president on promises to abolish the Trans-Pacific Partnership and withdraw from […]

Trump meets Abe, but fails Japan

This time, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is No.1 in the world. He met with US President-elect Donald Trump in New York on Thursday for 90 minutes, and became the first foreign leader to meet with Trump after the US election, writes an editorial piece of Global Times. Not much information was released following the […]

Trump’s victory indicates polls’ failure in reflecting public sentiment

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (NsNewsWire) — In Nov. 8 U.S. presidential election, Donald Trump won the presidency despite most of the analysts and opinion polls predicting his defeat to his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. U.S. pundits, experts and pollsters are now scrambling to figure out why most of them failed to predict Trump’s victory, reports Xinhua. […]

Stronger Sino-Latin American ties to inject new vitality into Asia-Pacific

LIMA, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) — Relations between China and Latin America are expected to further grow as Chinese President Xi Jinping visits Latin America, while stronger Sino-Latin American relations will inject new vitality into the Asia-Pacific. Xi left Beijing Wednesday morning to pay a visit to Ecuador, Peru and Chile on Nov. 17-23 and attend […]

Kofi Annan expresses deep concern over recent violence in Myanmar

YANGON, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) — Kofi Anna, who is chair of the Myanmar-government-appointed Advisory Commission on Rakhine State, expressed deep concern Wednesday over the recent violence in Maungtaw of the state, which he warned is plunging into a renewed instability and creating new displacement. In his statement over the situation, Annan, who was also former […]

Obama says U.S. president-elect Trump committed to NATO despite campaign rhetoric

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (NsNewsWire) — U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday his successor Donald Trump, a frequent North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) critic on the presidential campaign trail, was committed to NATO. “In my conversation with the president-elect, he expressed a great interest in maintaining our core strategic relationships,” said Obama here at his […]

Xi-Trump call sends positive signal :Global Times

Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President-elect Donald Trump spoke on the phone Monday. Xi pointed out during the phone conversation that “the facts prove that cooperation is the only correct choice for China and the US,” which was highlighted by headlines carried in many global media outlets. Xi also emphasized that there is an […]