JAKARTA, April 17 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia's foreign debt fell slightly to 427.2 billion U.S. dollars in February, down from 427.9 billion dollars in the previous month, the country's central bank ...

GAZA, April 17 (Xinhua) -- Hamas said on Thursday evening that it is ready to immediately begin negotiations on a deal to swap all Israeli hostages with an agreed-upon number of Palestinian prisoners, ...

TEHRAN, April 17 (Xinhua) -- Iran's atomic chief said on Thursday his country expects the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to "maintain neutrality and professionalism" with regard to the ...

TEHRAN, April 17 (Xinhua) -- Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian met here on Thursday with visiting Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, calling for expanding ...

PHNOM PENH, April 17 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping said here Thursday that building a China-Cambodia community with a shared future is a choice of history and the people. Xi made the ...

China will continue to offer government scholarships to Cambodia, support the establishment of a dialogue and exchange mechanism for youths between the two countries, and encourage more exchanges at ...

With Oman's mediation, Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi engaged in a first round of "indirect" discussions with U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff in Muscat on April 12, ...

CAIRO, April 17 (Xinhua) -- Egypt's central bank on Thursday cut key interest rates by 255 basis points, setting the lending rate at 26 percent and the deposit rate at 25 percent, the bank said in a ...

SANAA, April 17 (Xinhua) -- Yemen's Houthi leader Abdulmalik al-Houthi said on Thursday his group had launched 26 attacks against Israel and 33 strikes on the U.S. aircraft carrier and warships in the ...

LJUBLJANA, April 17 (Xinhua) -- The Confucius Institute Ljubljana and the Slovene Ethnographic Museum organised a celebration of the United Nations Chinese Language Day in the capital Ljubljana on ...

JERUSALEM, April 17 (Xinhua) -- Israel has extended its missile warning time for long-range threats from Yemen by three to five minutes, the military's Home Front Command said on Thursday.