By Xinhua News Agency The European Union (EU) on Wednesday imposed fines totaling 700 million euros (798.7 million U.S. dollars) on American tech giants Apple and Meta, a move expected to intensify already strained transatlantic trade relations. Apple received a 500-million-euro fine for preventing app developers from informing users about alternative purchasing options outside its

By Anadolu Agency US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday that Iran can pursue a civilian nuclear program if it agrees to abandon uranium enrichment. “If Iran wants a civil nuclear program, they can have one just like many other countries in the world have one, and that is they import enriched material,” Rubio

By Xinhua News Agency A latest report projects systemic breakthroughs in China’s new quality productive forces in terms of agriculture over the next decade, with grain yield per unit area expected to increase by 7.8 percent. The China Agricultural Outlook Report (2025-2034), released at the 2025 Agricultural Outlook Conference held at the Chinese Academy of

By Xinhua News Agency Egypt inaugurated on Sunday the headquarters of the African Space Agency (AfSA) in the Egyptian Space City in Cairo. “Egypt has made extensive efforts to establish the agency, which embodies the vision of ‘The Africa We Want’ outlined in the African Union’s Agenda 2063,” Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said at

By Anadolu Agency Pope Francis died at age 88 after suffering a prolonged illness, the Vatican announced on Monday. He suffered a “prolonged asthma-like respiratory crisis” associated with thrombocytopenia, according to a previous Vatican statement. Francis was born in Buenos Aires on Dec. 17, 1936, to Italian immigrant parents. He studied in Argentina and later

By Anadolu Agency UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has expressed concern over the recent US airstrikes in and around Yemen’s port of Ra’s Isa, his spokesman said Saturday. Guterres is “gravely concerned about the airstrikes conducted by the United States over the course of 17 and 18 April in and around Yemen’s port of Ra’s Isa,

Students write Chinese characters during an International Chinese Language Day event at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, April 17, 2025. TO GO WITH “Ugandan students celebrate International Chinese Language Day with cultural performances. Photographer Nicholas Kajoba By Xinhua News Agency Hundreds of students from schools and institutions across Uganda gathered on Thursday to celebrate the

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrives at the Quai d’Orsay, France’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, before a bilateral meeting with his French counterpart in Paris, France April 17, 2025. Pool via Reuters/Julien de Rosa By Reuters The United States will walk away from efforts to broker a Russia-Ukraine peace deal unless there are clear

By Anadolu Agency Russia’s permanent representative to the UN said Thursday that Germany would be directly involved in the war in Ukraine if it delivers Taurus long-range missiles to Kyiv. “Yes, it would,” Vassily Nebenzia told Anadolu when asked whether such a move would mean Germany becoming a direct party to the conflict. He accused

Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic (R) welcomes visiting Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico in Zagreb, Croatia, April 16, 2025. Marko Lukunic/Pixsell via Xinhua By Xinhua News Agency Visiting Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, who held talks with his Croatian counterpart Andrej Plenkovic on Wednesday, criticized the warning of Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s high representative