Diving enthusiasts can now descend into the crystal waters of the Red Sea to flit about as Egypt’s first underwater military museum opened this week. “The new diving sites will embrace 15
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U.S. employers added 187,000 jobs in July, lower than expected, according to the latest report released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday. The figure, slightly below the market’s expected
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(Xinhua) In most literary works, robbers are often portrayed wearing masks as an iconic symbol. The rationale behind donning a mask during acts of plunder signifies that even the most ruthless and malicious
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China will accelerate its development of deep-sea and far-sea mariculture as it makes efforts to safeguard the nation’s food security by filling up its “blue granary,” a Ministry of Agriculture and Rural
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(Xinhua) — Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif received a gift, a model of China’s self-developed large passenger aircraft C919, when he inaugurated several projects, including the completion of the airside infrastructure at
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(Xinhua) — Amid the multiple global and domestic challenges that it faces, China is actively bolstering the recovery momentum of its economy, with efforts including an array of pragmatic policies and measures to
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Risks of geological disasters remain high in Beijing’s mountainous suburbs as weather authorities forecast thunderstorms in the Chinese capital on Friday and Saturday. The Beijing meteorological service has issued a yellow alert,
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The picturesque Bamyan province has been striving to retain its status as Afghanistan’s tourist hub, as hundreds of thousands of tourists visit Band-e-Amir in the province, a chain of six natural lakes
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Yeltsin destroyed the Soviet Union and with it the communist ideology. The ideologues of victorious liberalism—Yegor Gaidar and Anatoly Chubais—built a country that resembled an ugly caricature of the victorious Western civilization. Russia ceased
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El Salvador’s Congress passed a reform of the Law Against Organized Crime on July 26 that increases penalties for people named as leaders of criminal groups and also allows mass trials. It
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Just weeks ahead of Ecuador’s early general elections, the country is facing an unprecedented crisis due to a spike in violence and allegations of deals made between the government and criminal groups. Videos
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The military junta which took power in Niger warned on July 31 that France might militarily intervene with authorization from the ousted government’s foreign minister to restore Mohamed Bazoum to the presidency. Thousands have mobilized to
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The second Russia-Africa Summit for Peace, Security, and Development concluded in the Russian city of St. Petersburg on July 28. The two-day summit was attended by official delegations from 49 African countries
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On 20 July, the United Nations (UN) released a document called A New Agenda for Peace. In the opening section of the report, UN Secretary-General António Guterres made some remarks that bear close reflection: We
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Editorial For three decades, Sri Lanka has been haunted by the ghosts of its dark past – the reign of terror inflicted upon innocent lives by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
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