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Over 100 Chinese enterprises target Zambia's premier show to boost business
LUSAKA, July 25 (Xinhua) -- About 100 Chinese companies are expected to exhibit at the 97th Agricultural and Commercial Show to boost business ties, the Zambia Chinese Association (ZCA) revealed on Friday.
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Romania faces one of driest agricultural years since 1901
BUCHAREST, July 25 (Xinhua) -- Romania is facing one of its driest agricultural years in over a century, with rainfall far below normal levels, the head of the National Meteorological Administration (ANM) said on Friday.
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Wildfire spreads in southern BiH
SARAJEVO, July 25 (Xinhua) -- A massive wildfire that started Thursday in the forests of Prozor-Rama, southern Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), continues to spread across mountain terrain, local authorities said on Friday.
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Interview: China leading in wetland preservation, says Wetlands International CEO
VICTORIA FALLS, Zimbabwe, July 25 (Xinhua) -- China is playing a leading role in the global wetland preservation agenda, Wetlands International Chief Executive Officer Coenraad Krijger said Friday.
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Violence in Mexican state of Sinaloa continues one year after 'El Mayo' Zambada's arrest in US
Culiacan, Mexico (Reuters) -The street vendor said the few tourists who still visit Culiacan no longer look for posters of drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman and accused drug kingpin Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, once the Mexican city's most famous residents.
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Feature: Rewriting norms -- Emirati women thrive in traditionally male domains
DUBAI, July 25 (Xinhua) -- Amid the roaring hum of towering cranes at Dubai's Jebel Ali Port, Emirati engineer Hind Al-Kaabi skillfully directs a series of precise maneuvers to load enormous containers onto a cargo ship heading to South Asia.
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Chinese, Ghanaian doctors break new grounds with minimally invasive surgery
ACCRA, July 25 (Xinhua) -- The 14th Chinese medical team and Ghanaian doctors have successfully carried out the first laparoscopic transabdominal anterior hernia repair within the West African country's public hospital system.
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Barcelona squad departs late for Japan, South Korea
MADRID, July 25 (Xinhua) -- Barcelona's squad has traveled to Asia for a three-match tour of Japan and South Korea with a 24-hour delay after resolving contract problems with the tour promotors.
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Feature: Reaching new heights - China's artistic swimming triumphs at Singapore Worlds
by sportswriters Li Jia, Wang Zijiang and Yue Chenxing
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IMF praises Sri Lanka's economic rebound, urges continued reforms
COLOMBO, July 25 (Xinhua) -- The Sri Lankan authorities' economic reform program is yielding commendable outcomes with real GDP growing by 4.8 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2025, outperforming expectations, Evan Papageorgiou, mission chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for Sri Lanka, said on Friday.
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Study projects Malaysia's data centers to generate 34 bln USD economic output
KUALA LUMPUR, July 25 (Xinhua) -- The Asia-Pacific Data Center Association (APDCA) has projected that Malaysia's data center sector will generate approximately 34 billion U.S. dollars in total economic output and support 30,900 jobs by 2030.
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Rwanda launches campaign to curb air pollutants from vehicle emissions
KIGALI, July 25 (Xinhua) -- Rwanda has launched a campaign to curb air pollutants from vehicle emissions, which authorities say are fueling asthma, heart disease and lung cancer.
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Pop Mart opens first Berlin store to "endless" queues
BERLIN, July 25 (Xinhua) -- Not even the rainy weather could dampen the enthusiasm of hundreds of devoted fans who queued for kilometers outside a major Berlin shopping center early Friday morning, eagerly awaiting the opening of China's toy-maker Pop Mart's first store in Germany.
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Gunmen kill 14 people returning from market in central Nigeria
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) -Armed attackers ambushed a vehicle returning from a weekly market in the Bokkos area of central Nigeria, killing 14 passengers including women and infants, a local community leader said on Friday.
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EU, US could reach framework trade deal this weekend, EU officials say
BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union and the United States could reach a framework deal on trade this weekend, ending months of uncertainty for European industry, EU officials and diplomats said on Friday.
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West Africa's security woes no longer France's concern, minister says
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -The insecurity plaguing West Africa is no longer France's concern, its state minister for ties with Francophone countries and international partnerships said on Friday, a week after Paris handed over control of its last major military base in the region.
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From sports day to shelter: Thai family flees shelling from Cambodia
SURIN, Thailand (Reuters) -Six-year-old Sunisa Chanprakhon was looking forward to running in her school sports day in their Thai border village on Thursday when explosions shattered the morning calm.
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Cleo Laine, British jazz singer who performed with Ray Charles and Frank Sinatra, dies at 97
LONDON, 2025 -British jazz singer Cleo Laine, who performed with musical greats including Frank Sinatra and starred as an actor in London's West End and on Broadway, has died aged 97, the Guardian newspaper reported on Friday, citing a statement from her children Jacqui and Alec.
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France's highest court rules arrest warrant for ex-Syrian leader Assad is invalid
PARIS (Reuters) -France's Cour de Cassation, the country's highest court, ruled on Friday that a warrant issued for former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad was invalid.
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Trump says there is a 50-50 chance of trade deal with EU
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said there was a 50-50 chance or perhaps less that the United States would reach a trade agreement with the European Union, saying Brussels wanted to "make a deal very badly".