00:57 A massive industrial fire broke out at a chemical plant in the U.S. state of Illinois on Monday.The fire will likely be allowed to burn for days as officials hope to protect the n
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday that the G7 group of nations is not a club that is hostile to China and should work with the Asian economy on multiple fronts, including climate change
One student was killed and at least 10 people were kidnapped when gunmen raided a school in northern Nigeria, officials told Reuters on Friday.The gunmen attacked the main campus of the Nuhu Bamalli
At least three Katyusha rockets on Wednesday struck an Iraqi military airbase in Salahudin province, north of the capital Baghdad, a provincial security source said.The incident took place in the eve
Two Chinese employees of a mining company near western Niger's borders with Mali and Burkina Faso were kidnapped by armed men, Tillaberi region's Governor Ibrahim TijaniKatiella told AFP on Monday.Th
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin on Friday called on the U.S. to invite World Health Organization (WHO) experts to its soil to study the origins of COVID-19 and explain the country's
The prime minister of Denmark on Wednesday said she did not believe Denmark needed to restore its relationships with its allies after the United States spied on European leaders through Danish inform
About 10,000 of the 80,000 volunteers to help this summer's Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics have pulled out, Kyodo News said on Wednesday, citing the Japanese organizing committee."There's no doubt th
At least 23 migrants from Africa drowned in a shipwreck off Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy, and 70 were rescued, the Tunisian Red Crescent humanitarian organizat
A group of gunmen killed one resident and abducted students following an attack in Nigeria's north-central state of Niger, according to local authorities on Sunday.Adamu Usman, police chief in Niger
The captain of the Ever Given was fully responsible for the grounding of the huge cargo vessel that blocked the canal for six days in March, according to Egypt's Suez Canal Authority (SCA) on Sunday.
Lithuania on Monday said it would not authorize any departing or arriving flights that cross Belarusian airspace, a day after Belarus forced a Vilnius-bound plane to land and arrested a journalist on
The UN nuclear watchdog and Iran have agreed to extend an agreement to monitor Tehran's nuclear activities by one month, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Monday."The equipment and t
FILE PHOTO: Lebanon's prime minister-designate Saad al-Hariri said on Saturday he will not form a cabinet that simply caters to President Michel Aoun's wishes. /Xinhua Lebanon's prime minister
04:09 The history of Chinesepeoplein America is a story of struggle against racism and persecution, but the lesser-told narrative is how this population became an integral part of Ameri
The continued attacks between Israel and Palestinian militants are "unacceptable,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the UN General Assembly on Thursday, saying "the clashes should end immed
U.S. President Joe Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday morning that he expects to see a significant de-escalation today in the Gaza conflict, according to the White Hous