ABIDJAN, April 2 (Xinhua) -- The purchase price of cocoa beans for farmers in Cote d'Ivoire will increase to 2,200 CFA francs (3.63 U.S. dollars) per kilogram for the mid-season this year which ...

DAMASCUS, April 3 (Xinhua) -- At least four members of Syria's Ministry of Defense were killed and 12 others wounded in a wave of Israeli airstrikes that targeted several military sites across Syria ...

WASHINGTON, April 2 (Xinhua) -- Amid widespread opposition, U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order on the so-called "reciprocal tariffs," imposing a 10-percent "minimum ...

GENEVA, April 2 (Xinhua) -- The World Health Organization (WHO) is facing a budget gap of 1.9 billion U.S. dollars for 2026 and 2027, along with a 600-million-dollar deficit through 2025, according to ...

JERUSALEM, April 3 (Xinhua) -- The Manufacturers Association of Israel (MAI) on Thursday criticized U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to impose a 17-percent tariff on Israeli imports, calling it ...

BRATISLAVA, April 2 (Xinhua) -- The Slovak government on Wednesday declared a state of emergency in several districts and approved the culling of 350 brown bears, citing the danger to humans after a ...

This first session of consultations, which brings together the foreign ministers of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger and their Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, is part of the desire of the heads of ...

NEW YORK, April 2 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 jolted 145 km WNW of Tobelo, Indonesia, at 21:03:39 GMT on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth ...

NEW YORK, April 2 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 jolted Northern Molucca Sea at 21:03:36 GMT on Wednesday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres "is deeply alarmed" by the human toll of the intensified hostilities in Gaza and calls for the immediate restoration of the ceasefire, his spokesman said on ...

Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi and Egypt's Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty discussed efforts on Wednesday to secure a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. During a phone call, the two ministers ...