The ICNF said 74,931 hectares had burned between Jan. 1 and Aug. 14. By Saturday, the figure had surged to 139,091 hectares, with 64,160 hectares consumed in the past two days alone - 46 percent of ...

BEIJING, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- The second comprehensive rehearsal for the upcoming grand gathering to mark the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese ...

BEIJING, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 jolted 15 km north of Poso, Indonesia, at 22:38:52 GMT on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of ...

KHARTOUM -- At least 31 people were killed, including seven children and a pregnant woman, and 13 others injured on Saturday in an attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the city of ...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Donald Trump has told European leaders after his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin that he wants to arrange a trilateral summit with Putin ...

RABAT, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- A screening of documentary "The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru" was held here on Friday to mark the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance ...

BAGHDAD, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- Iraqi security forces have carried out two airstrikes on Islamic State (IS) hideouts, killing a group of terrorists inside, the Iraqi Joint Operations Command (JOC) said ...

OTTAWA, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- The Canadian federal government has ordered binding arbitration to end a strike by around 10,000 flight attendants of Air Canada, which began early Saturday.

TRIPOLI, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- Libya began its second phase of municipal council elections on Saturday, with polling stations across the country opening from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. local time.

DAMASCUS, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- A car bomb exploded on Saturday night near the Golden Mezzeh Hotel on the Mezzeh highway in western Damascus, Syrian state news agency SANA reported.

ISTANBUL, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- A forest fire that erupted Saturday at around 4:30 p.m. local time (1330 GMT) in Türkiye's northwestern province of Canakkale has forced the evacuation of five villages, ...

JERUSALEM, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- An 18-month-old Israeli boy died of measles on Saturday at Jerusalem's Shaare Zedek Medical Center, marking the second fatality in the country's current measles outbreak ...