SEOUL, July 17 (Xinhua) -- Torrential rain in South Korea left at least two people dead and about 1,000 evacuated, with more downpours expected in coming days, the interior ministry said Thursday. A ...

Standing just 1.28 meters tall and weighing a little over 30 kg, Wang has relied on his slight frame to carry a medical kit through the rugged mountains of western Hubei for over 30 years, come rain ...

BAGHDAD, July 17 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from a devastating fire at a hypermarket in Kut, the capital of Iraq's Wasit province, has risen to 61, the Interior Ministry confirmed on Thursday.

U.S. President Donald Trump announced Saturday that his administration would impose 30 percent tariffs on EU and Mexican exports, arguing that bilateral trade had long been unbalanced and lacked ...

MANILA, July 17 (Xinhua) -- Inflation remained the top urgent national concern in the Philippines, according to a survey by an independent polling firm on Thursday.

BEIRUT, July 17 (Xinhua) -- Two members of the Lebanese Hezbollah group were killed and two civilians were injured Thursday in two separate Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon, according to ...

During their last round of talks on June 2, Russia and Ukraine agreed on an "all-for-all" exchange of seriously ill and wounded prisoners, and soldiers under the age of 25, as well as the transfer of ...

JAKARTA, July 17 (Xinhua) -- A 5.8-magnitude earthquake jolted off Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara province on Thursday without prompting large waves, the Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics ...

URUMQI, July 17 (Xinhua) -- Under the summer sun, Aybota Bahetihan boarded the international transit bus at the Jeminay Port station, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, at 10 a.m. An ...

BEIJING, July 17 (Xinhua) -- China has effectively promoted the transformation and industrialization of a large number of patents, with the industrialization rate of enterprise invention patents up ...

Last year, a total of 677,117 children were born in Germany, representing a decrease of 15,872. While the drop remains significant, it is less steep than in the two years prior, when birth rates fell ...