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BEIJING | Xinhua |  Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday called for reaching a successful conclusion of the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) for military development. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks while attending a …

BEIJING | Xinhua | China’s government work report, unveiled Wednesday at this year’s annual session of the national legislature for deliberation, has garnered widespread attention from home and abroad. How did the world’s second-largest economy perform in the past year? What are its major development goals and policy directions for …

BEIJING | Xinhua |  China is stepping up efforts to expand employment while addressing structural employment problems, as part of a broader push to boost employment, an official said. China has set targets of keeping the surveyed urban unemployment rate at around 5.5 percent in 2025, and creating over 12 …

  It is clear that Musk currently has Trump’s ear. The White House has given free rein to Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and Trump himself has encouraged Musk to be more aggressive. COMMENT | DANI RODRIK |  Although Donald Trump came to office riding a tsunami of public …

MOSCOW, RUSSIA | TASS | French President Emmanuel Macron has been trying on new Napoleonic armor for a long time and aspires to lead the European “war party”, said Leonid Slutsky, the head of the State Duma’s committee on international affairs and leader of the LDPR Party. “The French leader’s …

TEL AVIV | TASS | Israel’s new Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir has said that 2025 will a year of war focused on the Gaza Strip and Iran, the Jerusalem Post reported. According to the newspaper, Zamir told the high command that other fronts will be in focus of attention as well. …

WASHINGTON, the United States | TASS | Many European leaders seek endless war, US entrepreneur and Head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Elon Musk said. “They want forever war. How many more parents with no sons? How many more children with no fathers? By their logic, it never …

OTTAWA | Xinhua |  The Canadian federal government on Tuesday announced a detailed tariff package after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau vowed that Canada will not back down from a fight against the trade war initiated by U.S. President Donald Trump. According to a news release issued by the Finance Ministry, …

WASHINGTON | Xinhua | U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday repeated his pledge to take both the Panama Canal and Greenland. “To further enhance our national security, my administration will be reclaiming the Panama Canal, and we have already started doing it,” Trump said during his address to a joint …

WASHINGTON, the United States | TASS | US Vice President JD Vance said supplies of weapons and military equipment to Ukraine could resume if Kiev agreed to peace talks. Asked by a reporter in Congress whether the aid would ever be brought back on, he replied, “The president has been very …