OTTAWA, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- The Bank of Canada on Wednesday announced it is holding its key policy rate at the current level of 2.25 percent.

ROME, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- Italian cuisine has been recognized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as part of the world's intangible cultural heritage, ...

According to the ruling by U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco, the Trump administration still retains control of approximately 300 California National Guard members six months after ...

ALGIERS, Dec 10 (Xinhua) -- China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) said on Wednesday it has completed track-laying on the PK330 Bridge, Africa's longest heavy-haul railway bridge, marking a key ...

BARCELONA, Spain, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- Spain's Catalonia region reinstated the mandatory use of face masks in hospitals and health and residential care centers on Wednesday. The measure has been ...

RABAT, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from the collapse of two residential buildings in the Moroccan city of Fez has risen to 22, the public prosecutor said on Wednesday, revising an earlier ...

GENEVA, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- The Swiss parliament elected Economics Minister Guy Parmelin as President of the Swiss Confederation for 2026 on Wednesday. Parmelin, 66, from the Swiss People's Party, ...

CAIRO, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- Egypt's Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZone) on Wednesday witnessed the groundbreaking ceremony for a new glassware factory to be built by China's Anhui Xinmin Glass in an ...

BUCHAREST, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- Romania's Constitutional Court on Wednesday cleared a tax-hike package to take effect on Jan. 1, dismissing an appeal by the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) ...

LISBON, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- A majority of the musicians and performers competing in Festival da Cancao 2026 (Song Festival 2026) announced on Wednesday that they will refuse to represent Portugal at ...

Ara Azad, an Armenian-Lebanese painter, channels Beirut's turbulent history into his abstract works, transforming the tension and instability of growing up during the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990) ...

BUDAPEST, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- Hungary will not implement the European Union's new migration pact and will refuse to accept any migrants under the scheme, senior government officials said on Wednesday.