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The Group of Seven (G7) on Sunday wrapped up its first in-person summit in almost two years against the backdrop of protesters taking to the streets and beaches and accusing the worlds richest countries of making "empty promises".   Critics said the three-day gathering, held in Britains southwestern resort of Carbis Bay in Cornwall, is a "historic missed opportunity" as it only threw up more questions than answers to some of the worlds thorniest issues.   With various agendas and interests, t...

Chinas spending on information technology (IT) will grow 10 percent year on year to reach over 2.21 trillion yuan (about 346.1 billion U.S. dollars) in 2021, according to an industrial report.   The outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic has propelled the upgrade of the internet economy and promoted the development of tele-medicare and tele-education in the country, a report released by global market research firm International Data Corporation (IDC) said.   The Chinese government started implemen...

The past five rounds of the Vienna talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal led to an agreement over the removal of some 1,000 U.S. sanctions on Iran, but about 500 others are still in dispute, parliamentary sources were quoted as saying by semi-official Tasnim News Agency on Wednesday.   The figure was offered by the head of the Iranian negotiating team, Abbas Araqchi, in a meeting in the afternoon with the Iranian parliaments Foreign Policy Committee, said Ebrahim Azizi, a member of the committ...

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed an expansive bill that is apparently seeking to use an obsolete Cold-War mentality to boost Americas future tech and manufacturing.   The 2,400-plus-page bill shows Washingtons growing anxiety over and ideological prejudice towards Chinas development, as well as its paranoia to maintain Americas global technological superiority.   However, those U.S. lawmakers who sponsored the bill as well as other like-minded Washington politicians are steering their countr...

-- Ohio Governor Mike DeWine said that approximately 200,000 doses of Johnson & Johnson vaccine in the state are set to expire on June 23, while "Ohio does not have legal options for sending the vaccine elsewhere, either to other states or other countries."    Hospitals and state health departments across the United States are racing to decide how to use up millions of Johnson & Johnsons COVID-19 vaccine doses that are set to expire this month, while lots of developing nations are still falli...

-- Joint efforts to boost trade and strengthen cooperation in emerging industries between China and Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) are high on the agenda of the second China-CEEC Expo & International Consumer Goods Fair.   -- Trade between China and CEECs grew at an average pace of 8 percent between 2012 and 2020, more than twice the growth of China-EU trade during the same period.   -- The expo functions as a platform for China and CEECs to carry out in-depth exchanges and ac...

Albanian lawmakers voted on Wednesday in an extraordinary plenary session in Parliament to impeach President Ilir Meta, who has been accused of violating the countrys constitution.     Forty-nine Socialist lawmakers set up a committee in late April to investigate Metas activities during the April 25 general elections. According to the committee, Meta had "seriously violated the constitution" with his statements and actions.   On Wednesday, the head of the investigative committee, Socialist d...

-- Chinese President Xi Jinping has, on various bilateral and multilateral occasions, called for more China-Central and Eastern European Countries cooperation. The following are some highlights of his remarks in this regard.   In a congratulatory letter to the 2nd China-Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC) Expo, Chinese President Xi Jinping expressed hope that all parties can take this opportunity to tap the potential for collaboration and open up broader space for cooperation.   The...

European Union (EU) lawmakers on Wednesday gave their seal of approval to a new travel certificate that will allow people to move freely within the bloc without having to quarantine or taking extra coronavirus tests, paving the way for the pass to start in time for summer.   The green light will allow EU citizens to get a digital health pass to display their vaccination status, results of COVID-19 tests, or whether they have recovered from a coronavirus infection.   The free certificate will ...

  In the financial sector, an RMB international investment-and-loan fund has been approved in Beijing. In the medical sector, the first eight pilot hospitals in Beijing providing medical services for foreigners are advancing real-time settlement with international insurance companies.   Di Xia, a staff member at Beijings first one-stop platform for services catering to international talent, said that the platform has enabled foreign workers to apply for Chinese work visas without bothering wi...