There have so far been 12 reports of injuries after two earthquakes shook Songyuan City in northeast China's Jilin Province on Thursday morning, local authorities said.
The Pakistani Senate was informed Wednesday that a total of 2, 227 people have so far been killed in 317 U.S. drone attacks since 2008.
"We are trying our best to accelerate the recovery working to deal with the aftermath of the airplane crash," Khine Simvongsa, Director of the Flight Safety Division, Department of Civil Aviation of Laos told Xinhua on Tuesday, days after a devastating plane crash that killed all 49 people on board.
At least 23 people were killed in a powerful tropical cyclone which hit the eastern Indian state of Odisha and the neighboring southern state of Andhra Pradesh late Saturday night, causing heavy rainfall and sending seawater surging inland, the authorities said Monday.
Since the holiday kicked off on Tuesday, relatively comfortable weather across the country, toll-free highways, admission ticket discounts, and lower gas prices have combined to make this so-called Golden Week the best time for traveling.
It’s important for the different regional architectures of economic cooperation in the Asia Pacific like TPP and RCEP to “potentially converge,” APEC Secretariat Executive Director Alan Bollard has said.
The kinds of delicacies once enjoyed by residents along the ancient Silk Road have been recreated in northwest China’s GansuProvince. And it’s all thanks to joint efforts by historians and chefs.
As many as 29 civilians and policemen were killed over the past three days during the anti- government protests over fuel subsidy cuts in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum and Gezira State, the Sudanese police said Thursday.
Kenya's security forces are moving in an apparently final assault to end the day-3 hostage crisis at Nairobi's renowned Westgate shopping mall.
U.S. President Barack Obama has always had his detractors among conservative media and the Republican Party (GOP), but now his former employees as well as mainstream media are chiming in, hammering him over his Syria policy.
Egypt's antiquity sector has been suffering from looting, suspension of excavation, shortages of funding since the start of the 2011 unrest, the minister of antiquities said in a recent interview with Xinhua.
The Philippine government downplayed Tuesday any possible impact of the Zamboanga standoff on the overall economy, saying the firefight was contained in the western portion in the south.
The death toll from a warehouse explosion in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, rose to eight as of Wednesday evening, local police said.
The infant formula manufacturer at the center of the botulism false alarm in New Zealand said it has been confirmed that Karicare infant formula products that were affected by the Fonterra ingredient contamination are safe and now back on New Zealand shelves.
Russia has dismantled and disposed the S-300 air defense missile systems originally intended for delivery to Iran, its producer said Thursday.
Greece should not have been allowed to join the eurozone common currency union, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said, blaming the former Social Democratic (SPD) administration for letting it happen.
A trial operation initially set for Sept. 5 by a fisheries cooperative in Iwaki city, Fukushima Prefecture will be postponed due to toxic water leak, local media reported Thursday.
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