COLOMBO, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka's cabinet of ministers has approved the recruitment of nearly 62,000 people to the public service, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake said on Tuesday. Addressing ...

ADEN, Yemen, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- Yemen's internationally-recognized government mandated on Tuesday that all commercial transactions in areas under its control must use the Yemeni rial, banning foreign ...

JAKARTA, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia's largest digital firm, PT GoTo Gojek Tokopedia (GoTo), generated 480.72 trillion rupiahs (29.5 billion U.S. dollars) in economic value in 2024 and created over ...

LONDON, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- England's ongoing water shortage has been declared a "nationally significant incident," the Environment Agency said on Tuesday.

VILNIUS, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- Any agreement between the United States and Russia on Ukraine must uphold the country's sovereignty, the Speaker of the Lithuanian parliament Saulius Skvernelis said on ...

JOHANNESBURG, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- South Africa's official unemployment rate increased by 0.3 percentage points to 33.2 percent in the second quarter (Q2) of 2025, the national statistics agency said ...

CAIRO, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese Embassy in Egypt, together with local partners, has launched a poultry farming training program in Egypt's Menoufia Governorate to help rural women gain ...

CAIRO, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi on Tuesday reiterated Egypt's "complete rejection" of unilateral measures in the Eastern Nile Basin, warning that the country would ...

Speaking one day after announcing that Australia will formally recognize a Palestinian state at the 80th session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in September, Albanese on Tuesday agreed ...

HANOI, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- A landslide triggered by heavy rain left two people dead in central Vietnam's Lam Dong province on Tuesday, the local newspaper Tuoi Tre (Youth) reported. According to the ...

NEW DELHI, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- Over 1.7 million people were affected by the ongoing flooding in India's eastern state of Bihar, officials said Tuesday. The floods have hit the state's 10 districts, ...

VILNIUS, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- Lithuania is planning to join the declaration of the European Semiconductor Coalition, the Economy and Innovation Ministry said on Tuesday.