An earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale hit a remote mountainous region in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region Thursday afternoon.
Suspected United States drone Thursday evening fired two missiles against a compound in Pakistan's North Waziristan, killing at least three persons.
US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Thursday the US would continue to engage forcefully with China to expand the economic benefits of the relationship for American workers and companies.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Spanish Premier Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero compared notes here Thursday on eurozone stability and a coordinated strategy to shield the common currency against global speculation.
Chinese President Hu Jintao met Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon here Thursday and called for further bilateral cooperation between the two neighbors.
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast denounced the UN Security Council's resolution against Tehran as "incorrect and illegal," the official IRNA news agency reported Thursday.
Chinese President Hu Jintao and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev met Thursday and declared they were ready to further advance bilateral relations and cooperation.
Infectious diseases claimed 1,317 lives on the Chinese mainland last month, 48 more than in April, according to the Ministry of Health.
Visiting Chinese President Hu Jintao and his Uzbek counterpart Islam Karimov have signed a joint statement to boost bilateral economic cooperation and make more coordinated effort to fight terrorism.
China hopes the United States will take an objective, rational and just view towards China's national defense policy and the development of its armed forces, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang here on Thursday.
Doctors in a Northwest China city are closely monitoring an 18-month-old girl who is repeatedly expelling nails even though, the hospital claimed, there is no evidence that she had previously swallowed them.
An official with China's economic planning agency said on Thursday that the nation's power supply would meet its general demand, though regional black-outs are likely to occur during peak hours.
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