Construction has begun to repair a dike that breached Sunday in central China's Hubei Province and will be completed in five days, rescuers said.
Britain's newly installed Prime Minister Theresa May signalled her commitment Sunday to the flagship scheme devised by former Chancellor of the Exchequer to re-balance the north-south divide in England.
The 40th session of the World Heritage Committee held in Istanbul on Sunday decided to put China' s Hubei Shennongjia on the prestigious World Heritage List as a natural site, bringing to 50 the number of listed Chinese sites.
Negotiations on a bilateral investment treaty (BIT) between China and the United States made "positive" progress in solving "remaining issues," the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Sunday.
Chinese military sent a team to Juba, capital of South Sudan, on Wednesday to recover the bodies of two Chinese peacekeepers killed in Sunday's attack.
Two Chinese UN peacekeepers were killed in renewed fighting between South Sudan's rival army factions in capital Juba, a UN official confirmed to Xinhua on Monday.
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair faced mounting pressure Sunday in the wake of the devastating Chilcot report into the 2003 Iraq war.
The president of the UN General Assembly, Mogens Lykketoft, expressed outrage on Sunday at the bombings in the Iraqi capital, which killed at least 126 people and left many more badly injured.
At least 30 people were killed and scores injured when a mosque and several houses were washed away by flash flooding in Pakistan's northwest Chitral district, officials said Sunday.
A landslide killed 23 and injured 7 in southwest China's Guizhou Province as all missing and dead people were found Sunday morning.
Unknown armed men gunned down a former chief of government-backed peace body, the High Peace Council (HPC), in Afghanistan's southern Uruzgan province on Sunday, spokesman for provincial government Dost Mohammad Nayab said Monday.
All the hazardous chemicals were cleared Sunday from a solar panel factory that was destroyed by the worst tornado and hailstorm to hit east China's Jiangsu Province in decades.
No Chinese national has been found among the victims of the Florida nightclub mass shooting so far, the Chinese Consulate-General in Houston said Sunday.
The Islamic State (IS) -linked news agency Amaq said on Sunday that the Islamist militant group was responsible for the shooting that killed at least 50 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
Former Conservative Prime Minister Sir John Major warned Sunday of chaos if Britain votes on June 23 to leave the European Union.
Heavy rain will pound parts of southwest China in the next three days, the national observatory forecast on Sunday.
Heavy storms have swept the southern part of the United States, killing 6 people and forcing the evacuation of thousands of others.
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