The Christmas celebrations came amid a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas following two years of conflict in the Gaza ...

EU leaders will meet in Brussels on Thursday and Friday to mull plans to use frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine. The ...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed into law the annual defense policy bill, which includes a provision pressuring the Pentagon to release footage of U.S.

HANOI, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- A thick blanket of smog has settled over Vietnam's capital Hanoi in recent days, blurring high-rise buildings and casting a gray haze across streets as fine particulate ...

Gansu, in China's inland northwest, boasts some of the country's highest potential for wind and solar energy development. With 197,000 square kilometers of unused land, 46.3 percent of its total area, ...

BRUSSELS, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- EU leaders agreed on Friday to provide a 90-billion-euro loan to Ukraine from 2026 to 2027 to help address its looming budget shortfalls, but failed to reach consensus on ...

TOKYO, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- A powerful earthquake that has a high chance of occurring beneath Tokyo and nearby areas within the next few decades could kill up to 18,000 people, according to the damage ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) - The cultural and creative industry contributed 6.8 percent to Malaysia's gross domestic product (GDP), fueling 130.7 billion ringgit (31.97 billion U.S. dollars) in ...

TAIPEI, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- Taiwan opposition lawmakers from the Chinese Kuomintang party and Taiwan People's Party announced a plan to impeach the region's leader Lai Ching-te at a press conference ...

NANNING, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- Three people were killed and one was injured in a knife attack Friday morning in a residential compound in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, confirmed local ...

WELLINGTON, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- New Zealand's fruit exports rose 28 percent to 6.1 billion NZ dollars (3.52 billion NZ dollars) in the year ended November 2025, buoyed by strong Chinese demand for ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- The World Bank has provided a 70-million U.S. dollar financing package to a Malaysian paper and packaging manufacturer for sustainable paper production.