In last week's poll, conducted before the announcement of the Together Party, Bennett and Lapid together held 31 seats. Results of today's poll show a three-seat drop, leaving them at 28 seats.

Hopes are growing in Nepal for the prospect of increased connectivity with China as plans advance for a railway line connecting the capital Kathmandu with a Chinese border town in the Himalayas.

A worker counts Chinese currency renminbi at a bank in Linyi, East China's Shandong province. [Photo/Xinhua] BEIJING -- The renminbi (RMB) has been used more frequently in cross-border trade in the ...