China's Defense Ministry says the Chinese military plane that flew through international airspace near Okinawa was on a routine training mission. A Chinese military aircraft flew across the first island chain to the West Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, p...
Spain's Prime Minister has declared 3-days of mourning following Wednesday's deadly train crash in the country's northwest. Mariano Rajoy, who hails from the region where the accident took place, took time to visit the site. For a native from Santiag...
European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton says Egypt's ousted President Mohamed Morsi, is in good health and has access to the news. However she says she does not know where Morsi is being held. Shen Chengcheng has more. Ashton was allowed...
US Secretary of State John Kerry says negotiators from Israel and Palestine have agreed to hold another meeting within the next two weeks to kick off new peace talks. The peace negotiations are aimed to achieve a final status agreement between the tw...
China's national meteorological bureau has issued its highest level emergency response to the current heatwave gripping parts of China. The sizzling weather in Shanghai has so far claimed at least 10 lives. CRI's Zhang Shuangfeng has more. It's the f...
It's been confirmed Japanese vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki paid a two-day visit to China earlier this week. Chinese Foreign Ministry issued a statement, saying Saiki had held talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Chinese counterpa...
An international tiger conservation workshop is underway in Yunnan's capital, Kunming. Topics for discussion include the protection of wild tigers and combating the illegal trade in animal products. Shi Kun is the director of the wildlife institute a...
China's central bank has injected new liquidity into the money markets via an open market operation. This is the first time the PBOC has done this since February. The injection, a 17 billion yuan bond repurchase, marks the first time in 5-months the...
Experts and coaches of football teams taking part in this year's Beijing Cup International School Football Tournament are suggesting a change in the approach to the sport is needed if the level of football is going to improve among Chinese teenagers....
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has met with ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi. Ashton and Morsi talked for two hours. Ashton says Morsi is in good health and has access to the news. Morsi is being detained at an undisclosed location a...
A curfew has been imposed in the northwest Pakistani city of Dera Ismail Khan after a massive jail break. As many as 150 heavily-armed militants attacked a central jail over night, freeing the prisoners in a raid which has left at least 14-people dea...
Peace talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians have resumed in Washington. The talks are underway following a dinner hosted at the State Department building by US Secretary of State John Kerry. The dinner has been attended by Israeli chief neg...
Internet users in China are eagerly looking forward to ultra-fast 4G mobile Internet services. The anticipation has heated up following the government's announcement that licenses to operate such wireless system will be issued before the year's end....
Local governments in many parts of eastern China are taking steps to try to conserve energy in the midst of the heat wave which has seen temperatures in many parts of the region top 40-degrees. CRI's Shen Chengcheng with more. Heat alerts have been i...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon says the number of people killed in the Syrian conflict has now surpassed 100-thousand. Lucy Du has more. The latest estimate is 7-thousand people higher than the figure issued by the UN only a month ago. UN chief Ban...
