JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu submitted a formal pardon request to President Isaac Herzog on Sunday, according to a statement from the president’s office. In a letter sent by Netanyahu and his lawyers, a copy of which was seen by Xinhua, Netanyahu stated that he submitted the request “out of public responsibility.” He added that ending his trial “will help to reduce the intensity of the flames in the power debate surrounding it.” “Faced with the security challenges and political opportunities currently facing the State of Israel, I…
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“China is going to win the AI race,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has told an AI summit in London. The Taiwanese-born boss of the chipmaker, the world’s most valuable public company, believes the Chinese are already just “nanoseconds” behind the Americans and well placed to overtake them. He pointed to China’s energy superiority and AI research talent, as well as the risk that the Trump administration’s ban on selling China the most advanced chips will just galvanise Beijing to close that technological gap. Huang did soften his stance later to…
The Shenzhou XX mission crew returned to Earth on Friday afternoon, nine days later than their scheduled landing, ending an extended stay aboard the Tiangong space station after a suspected debris hit left their spaceship with a cracked window. A re-entry capsule carrying the three astronauts – mission commander Senior Colonel Chen Dong and crew members Colonel Chen Zhongrui and Colonel Wang Jie – touched down on the Dongfeng Landing Site in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region at 4:40 pm, after flying more than five hours on the Earth-bound journey.…
China’s first Type 076 amphibious assault ship, CNS Sichuan, sets sail from Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding, a major shipyard in Shanghai, at around 9 am on Friday to conduct its maiden navigation test mission. ZHANG LIANG/XINHUA CNS Sichuan, China’s largest and most advanced amphibious assault ship, set sail from Shanghai on its maiden sea trial on Friday, said the People’s Liberation Army Navy. The PLA Navy announced in a news release that the massive vessel left Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding, a Shanghai-based shipyard of China State Shipbuilding Corp, around 9 am on Friday. Engineers…
Third woman from China to claim Golden Lion trophy Chinese actress Xin Zhilei won the Best Actress award Saturday night at the 82nd Venice Film Festival for her role in The Sun Rises on Us All. Directed by Cai Shangjun, the film, known in Chinese as Ri Gua Zhong Tian, tells the tragic story of former lovers entangled by fate and unable to find redemption. Xin plays the leading female role. “This is the first time a Chinese actor from the post-1980s generation has won this award. This victory not…
24-year-old Jackson Yee won the Best Actor award for his performance in the film Big World at the 38th Golden Rooster Awards on Saturday, becoming the youngest winner in the awards history. The best actress honor went to Song Jia, the protagonist of Her Story, which also features Zhong Chuxi, who was awarded the Best Supporting Actress on Saturday as well. Her Story also grabbed the Best Feature award, becoming the biggest winner at this year’s ceremony. Chen Sicheng and Dai Mo won the Best Director award for Detective Chinatown…
China’s Shenzhou-20 astronauts to return to Earth By Xinhua Published: Nov 14, 2025 07:55 AM Updated: Nov 14, 2025 08:36 AM China’s Shenzhou-20 crew is scheduled to return to Earth on Friday aboard the Shenzhou-21 spacecraft, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) announced. The spaceship will return to the Dongfeng landing site in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The astronauts — Chen Dong, Chen Zhongrui and Wang Jie — are in good shape, and the landing zone and all participating systems are making preparations for their touchdown. The crew’s…
After less than a year since its launch, China’s first electromagnetic catapult-equipped Type 076 amphibious assault ship embarked on its maiden sea trial on Friday. Experts said that this indicates smooth progress on the construction of this warship, which could play roles of both an amphibious vessel and a light aircraft carrier. At around 9:00 am on Friday, the first hull of China’s Type 076 amphibious assault ship, the Sichuan, set off from a port of Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard in Shanghai and sailed toward the relevant sea area for its maiden…
President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday that China is willing to work with Spain to forge a comprehensive strategic partnership with greater strategic determination, dynamism and global influence, as he met with King Felipe VI of Spain, the first Spanish monarch to make a state visit to China in 18 years. The four-day trip, which started on Monday, comes as the highlight of a series of high-level interactions between the two countries, following a visit in April by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who made three visits to China in…
China’s capital market has continued to expand its high-level institutional opening-up, with the value of A-shares held by overseas investors rising from over 3 trillion yuan ($420 billion) at the end of 2020 to more than 3.5 trillion yuan at present, according to a report by China Media Group (CMG) on Wednesday citing data from the Shanghai Stock Exchange Global Investors Conference. Participants at the conference noted that major A-share indexes have risen steadily over the past year, with the MSCI China Index outperforming global markets so far this year.…