About 17 percent of children globally are not in school, whether because of poverty, gender, race, disability or a myriad other factors and despite international pledges to tackle such inequalitie
A photo distributed by the Houthi Military Media Unit shows the launch by Houthi forces of a ballistic missile aimed at Saudi Arabia March 25, 2018. /Reuters Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi moveme
The Saudi-led coalition involved in a war in Yemen announced on Monday that the Houthi militias targeted the kingdom with bomb-laden drones. Turki Al Maliki, the coali
Women wearing face masks walk beside a river in Tonekabon city, northern Iran, on June 16, 2020. (Photo by Ahmad Halabisaz/Xinhua)Iran on Monday reported 2,573 new COV
The eclipse was visible along a narrow band stretching from west Africa through the Arabian Peninsula to eastern China.
A large refugee camp on the Syrian side of the border with Turkey, near the town of Atma, in Idlib province, Syria, April 19, 2020. /AP More than one percent of the world's population is curre
File Photo: Players of China U16 men's football team train for the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U16 Championship in Haikou, south China's Hainan Province, May 25, 2020. (Xinhua/Pu Xiaoxu) Chin
Editor's note:David Cameron is a former prime minister of the United Kingdom. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, is a former president of Liberia. Donald Kaberuka is Special Envo
A security man wearing a protective mask walks on a street during a 24-hour curfew amid concerns about the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Sanaa, Yemen May 6, 2020. /Reuters phot
Beijing, June 17 (Xinhua) --The world in the past 24hrs. A selection of the best daily press photos from Xinhua.Members of the Beijing Blue Sky Rescue(BSR) team conduct disinfection at the Yuegezhuang
Yemen's Houthi rebels on Tuesday claimed responsibility for drone attacks on a military airport in the Saudi Arabian border city of Khamis Mushait. "The attack was car
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Iran on Monday nudged 190,000. Meanwhile, a Chinese medical team visited a refugee camp in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Iran, which has re-emerged as the
Violence has spiked in recent weeks in Afghanistan with most of the attacks claimed by an ISIL affiliate. /Reuters Editor's note: Hamzah Rifaat Hussain is a former visiting fellow at the Stims
SANAA, June 13 (Xinhua) -- The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen launched more than 20 airstrikes on the Houthi rebel sites in the Yemeni central province of Marib on Saturday, two local governme
BEIJING, June 13 (Xinhua) -- The world in the past 24hrs. A selection of the best daily press photos from Xinhua.The statue of Thomas Guy is seen boarded up at Guy's Hospital in London, Britain, on Ju
The COVID-19 pandemic hasn't prevented wars from happening in conflict-ridden areas. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said the pandemic is having an impact on some of the region
Workers wear protective gear spray disinfectant as a precaution against the coronavirus outbreak inside a public bus in Aleppo, Syria, March 15, 2020. /AP Editor's note:Guy Burton is an adjunc
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