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BEIJING (Xinhua) — The Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, will convene its 16th bi-monthly session on Feb. 24 in Beijing, according to a statement issued after a chairpersons' meeting Monday.

BEIJING (Xinhua) — Chinese and U.S. economic and trade teams have maintained effective communication and the working groups of the two sides will meet soon to conduct consultations and make full preparations for the next high-level economic and trade consultation between the two sides, an official said Thursday.

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A Cambodian American lawyer and dozens of members of a now-dissolved opposition party were convicted of treason Tuesday in a trial that was the latest move to tame all opposition to the long-running rule of Prime Minister Hun Sen.

WASHINGTON, March 10 (TASS) — US President Donald Trump has not been tested for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) as he has not come into contact with anyone infected with the virus, White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham stated on Monday.

MINNEAPOLIS — Hundreds of women were brought from Thailand to the U.S. and forced to be "modern day sex slaves," according to an indictment unsealed Thursday that charges high-level members of what authorities called a sophisticated sex-trafficking ring that concealed millions of dollars in earnings.

PYONGYANG, North Korea — Dancers in hot pants. Factories pumping out Air Jordan lookalikes. TV dramas that are actually fun to watch. North Korean pop...

NEW DELHI (AP) — A camera trap photo of an injured tigress and a forensic examination of its carcass revealed why the creature died: a poacher’s wire snare punctured its windpipe and sapped its strength as the wound festered for days.

BEIJING, July 5 (Xinhua) -- China's National Meteorological Center on Wednesday renewed a yellow alert for high temperatures as heatwaves linger in parts of...

WASHINGTON — America's long-running reluctant relationship with the International Criminal Court came to a crashing halt on Monday as decades of U.S. suspicions about...

By John Grafilo (DPA)