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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Wednesday called on Congress to approve a key piece of legislation for the ongoing peace process.

Diosdado Cabello, a prominent Venezuelan politician and close aide to late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, was sworn in as the new president of the National Constituent Assembly (ANC) on Tuesday.

U.S. natural gas plant liquids (NGPL) production reached record high in 2017, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) on Tuesday.

Five-hundred U.S. dollars. It is the price target predicted by analysts at GBH Insights for Netflix's share on Tuesday.

U.S. leading online retailer Amazon announced Tuesday that its last-step Hub delivery locker service has been expanded to all apartments across the United States.

Germany and France have agreed on major EU reform plans after German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron met Tuesday to prepare the June 28-29 EU summit.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday expressed his willingness to increase trade with Belarus to 50 billion U.S. dollars a year.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Monday the world would need a stronger and "more intervening" European Union.

The White House said on Monday that U.S. President Donald Trump will welcome Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte to the White House on July 2 to discuss bilateral ties.

Several supermajors in the southern U.S. Permian Basin will need to invest nearly 30 billion U.S. dollars through 2020 to meet oil and gas output targets, according to IHS Markit on Monday.

The Argentinean Ministry of Finance on Monday issued two new government bonds worth 4 billion U.S. dollars.

The United States President Donald Trump announced Monday that he was moving to establish a space force as the sixth branch of the U.S. armed forces.

Foreign investors consider Mexico as a strong destination among emerging markets due to its attractive pricing, a new report by Citibanamex, the local subsidiary of Citigroup Inc, revealed on Monday.

Obesity affects 18.9 percent of Brazilians living in cities while 54 percent of this population is overweight, according to Health Ministry data published Monday.

Parliaments of Mongolia and Laos agreed Monday to deepen cooperation in social, cultural and economic sectors in a bid to strengthen bilateral relations.

The Northeast Asian Mayors' forum 2018 kicked off here Monday, with the aim of consolidating their policies on environment and green development.

The Nestor Kirchner-Jorge Cepernic hydropower complex jointly built by China and Argentina will increase Argentina's total installed power capacity by 6.5 percent, a Chinese envoy said Wednesday.

UN General Assembly President Miroslav Lajcak said Wednesday that China's Belt and Road Initiative represents a commitment to the the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and multilateralism.

Liu Zhenmin, UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, said Wednesday that China's Belt and Road Initiative and the United Nations' 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development have similar vision and principles.

The U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised short-term interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point, its second rate hike this year and the seventh since late 2015.