Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed two decrees recognizing "the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR)" and "the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR)" as independent and sovereign states. Ukraine decided to recall its charge d'affairs in Russia and will reconsider its diplomatic relations with Russia. The sudden change in the...More

With the outbreak of the Ukraine crisis, Europe seems to have never been closer to a self-made energy crunch which threatens its future. The US and its Western allies condemned Russia's latest move to recognize the two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine as independent states while pledging to...More

In a sign of their sharp business mind, many Chinese are discussing on social media the balance sheet of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, which concluded just on Sunday but continue to occupy people's mind with lingering effects. The Beijing Winter Games will have a large chance of...More

Havana, Jan 22 (PL). Cuba has fully vaccinated 87.6 percent of its population against Covid-19 and has administered a booster shot to 4,545,231 people. In all, it has administered 33,422,531 shots of domestic vaccines Soberana 02, Soberana Plus and Abdala, and 10,544,254 Cubans (of 11 million) have received...More

La Paz (PL). President of Bolivia Luis Arce called today for unity, particularly within the governing Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), against destabilization attempts, as he ratified his government's commitment to defend the country's natural resources. “Our struggle will not succeed if individual ambitions and internal confrontations flourish”, he...More

Kathmandu. The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) held its 6th Meeting of the 8th Central Committee at the office building of the Party Central Committee on January 19 and decided on the immediate work and important policy issues of the...More

Kathmandu. Comrade Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, expressed his New Year Greetings with New Year cards to the party and state leaders of different countries on the occasion of...More

J-20 stealth fighter jets that entered service with an ace unit of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Northern Theater Command Air Force last year have now formed combat capabilities and already started to carry out combat alert duties, the unit's commander announced on Monday. Senior Colonel Li...More

The domestic section of the China-Laos railway, a signature project under the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative, is to increase capacity amid the Spring festival travel rush that begins on Monday. The China-Laos Railway links Kunming in Southwest China's Yunnan Province with Laos' capital Vientiane, and the domestic...More

China's population has entered a zero-growth period, Chinese demographers said, as the number of newborns in the Chinese mainland dropped to 10.62 million in 2021, close to the number of deaths, but they noted China is developing from quantitative growth in the workforce to quality growth as record-high...More

As the world tries to counter Omicron and bumps up booster shot campaigns, vaccine supply has once again come under discussion, as the World Economic Forum (WEF) rang the alarm bells recently of the COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing gap, and the Davos Agenda virtual event is set to discuss...More

Havana (PL). Latin America and the Caribbean are not anyone's backyard or front yard, Cuba's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodriguez, said yesterday, after statements on the matter by the President of the United States, Joe Biden. In his official Twitter account, the foreign minister pointed out that...More

With many teachings and collective deepening, the integral visit of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Party and its auxiliary structure to Sancti Spíritus culminated, where the fulfillment of the agreements after the 8th Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba. The First Secretary of the...More

Moscow, (PL). Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone with his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolas Maduro, about cooperation in the fight against Covid-19 and the supply of vaccines, the Kremlin revealed on Friday. During the conversation, occurred on Thursday, the two leaders talked about several current issues of cooperation,...More

China's postal administration on Monday vowed to "build a barrier" against COVID-19 cases imported through international express mail, after at least two Omicron cases, one in Beijing and another one in Shenzhen, were suspected of tracking back to packages from North America. Virologists warned of the high risk...More