MENDOZA, Argentina, July 21 (Xinhua) — Members of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) trade bloc seek to recover the group’s trade dynamism by boosting free trade among themselves and with other regions, a senior Argentine official said Friday.
CAIRO, July 22 (Xinhua) — Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi inaugurated on Saturday the largest military base of the Middle East in the coastal city of Alexandria.
LAUSANNE, Switzerland, July 11 (Xinhua) — The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Tuesday voted unanimously in support of awarding of 2024 and 2028 Olympic Games on the same occasion.
BRASILIA, July 12 (Xinhua) — Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was sentenced to nine years and six months in prison for his involvement in a corruption ring that embezzled billions of U.S. dollars from state oil company Petrobras Brasileiro, official sources said on Wednesday.