CHENGDU, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Acrobatic gymnast Shi Jingwei and roller sports star Guo Dan shared their excitement after leading Team China into Thursday's Chengdu 2025 World Games opening ceremony as ...

Freshippo, Alibaba Group's grocery arm, on Thursday announced plans to open about 100 new stores in the fiscal year ending March 2026, which would raise its total store count to over 500. The ...

NAIVASHA, Kenya, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- At least six people were killed and several others injured on Thursday afternoon when a train collided with a bus in Naivasha, about 90 km northwest of Kenya's ...

The alert comes amid what has become Portugal's worst wildfire season since 2022. According to the Integrated Rural Fire Management System (SGIFR), forest fires have consumed nearly 42,000 hectares in ...

In June, facing the deepest funding cuts ever to hit the international humanitarian system, OCHA launched a hyper-prioritized global appeal to help 114 million people by targeting the most urgent ...

GENEVA, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Thursday that the desperation in Gaza has led to a breakdown of law and order, calling for ...

The Public Health Emergency Operations Center, affiliated with the Ministry of Public Health, said in a release that one Israeli airstrike on the Masnaa road initially resulted in five deaths and 10 ...

The U.S. Embassy in Zambia issued a health alert on Wednesday, directing U.S. citizens to immediately leave Chambishi town and other areas in the Copperbelt province affected by spillage from dams ...

In central Gaza, a family of four was killed in an Israeli airstrike on an apartment in the al-Salhi Tower west of the Nuseirat refugee camp, and five aid seekers were killed by Israeli army fire near ...

TEHRAN, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi has called for convening an extraordinary meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on the ongoing humanitarian ...

BUCHAREST, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Former Romanian President Ion Iliescu was laid to rest with state and military honours on Thursday at the Ghencea III Military Cemetery in Bucharest. Iliescu passed away ...

UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres made it clear that he believes all trade wars are ruinous and need to be avoided, his spokesperson said Thursday.