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The European Parliament on Wednesday approved the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act with an overwhelming majority in Strasbourg, France. BRUSSELS, Belgium | Xinhua | The European Parliament on Wednesday approved the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act with an overwhelming majority in Strasbourg, France. The Parliament passed the act with 523 lawmakers voting …

MOSCOW | Xinhua | Russian President Vladimir Putin has encouraged Russian citizens to participate in the upcoming presidential election scheduled for March 15-17, TASS news agency reported Thursday. “It is necessary to confirm our unity and determination to move forward together. Each of your votes is valuable and significant. Therefore, …

MOSCOW | TASS |  South Korean national Baek Won-soon, who has been arrested in Russia on charges of espionage, had been posing as a writer and was receiving information constituting state secrets via a messenger app, law enforcement agencies told TASS. “While probing into the case of Baek Won-soon, investigators …

MEXICO CITY | Xinhua |  Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry announced early Tuesday that he would resign once a transitional presidential council is created, according to local media. “The government that I am leading will resign immediately after the installation of (a transition) council,” Henry said in a video address. …

CAIRO | Xinhua  |  Workers and volunteers with the non-profit organization Egyptian Food Bank (EFB) are working nonstop to prepare free food boxes for those underprivileged both in Egypt and the neighboring besieged Gaza Strip, as the Muslim holy month of Ramadan will start on Monday. Raising the slogan of …

ISLAMABAD | Xinhua | Ruling coalition candidate Asif Ali Zardari won the presidential election of Pakistan with an overwhelming lead on Saturday, the Election Commission of Pakistan announced. Zardari won the election by taking 411 votes from all the electoral colleges, including parliament and four provincial assemblies, the commission said. …

BEIJING | Xinhua | China sets an economic growth target of around 5 percent for 2024. In setting the target, the need to boost employment and incomes and prevent and defuse risks have been taken into account, and the growth rate is well aligned with the objectives of the 14th …

COMMENT | REED GALEN | Donald Trump was the unlikeliest of American presidents. When he launched his campaign in 2016, the closest he had come to executive authority was pretending to fire contestants on a business-themed reality show. As ridiculous as it seemed, the image of Trump sitting behind a …

WASHINGTON | Xinhua | U.S. employers added 275,000 jobs in February, the highest level in two years, with the unemployment rate rising to 3.9 percent, the U.S. Labor Department reported Friday. Job gains occurred in health care, in government, in food services and drinking places, in social assistance, and in …

LONDON | Xinhua | Chinese electric cars sell better than U.S. “inferior” ones due to their better performance and affordability, the Financial Times reported, citing the head of a global battery material producer. Chinese vehicles are “simply good cars and people buy them,” Mathias Miedreich, CEO of Umicore headquartered in …