BEIJING, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 jolted 41 km west of Kirakira, Solomon Islands at 1714 GMT on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of ...

SALMA, Syria, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) -- Every weekday morning in the mountainous countryside of northern Latakia, a coastal province of Syria, third-grader Taher Arab Taha, who recently returned to the ...

JERUSALEM/GAZA, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) -- The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement on Sunday that it had launched a new wave of strikes against Hamas militant targets in the southern Gaza Strip.

"Xinjiang lives up to its reputation for beauty," said Nur'Amirah Mohamad, a consul of the Consulate General of Malaysia in Hong Kong, visiting Xinjiang for the first time. She snapped photos of the ...

JAKARTA, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) -- The 53rd FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships kicked off in Jakarta, Indonesia on Sunday.

OCD spokesperson Junie Castillo said five people were pinned to death by a fallen tree in the municipality of Pitogo in Quezon province, southeast of Manila, and three others were killed in the ...

ISLAMABAD/KABUL, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan and Afghanistan have reached a ceasefire agreement to immediately halt cross-border attacks and promote mutual respect for each other's territory, ...

At a panel discussion titled "How Chinese Young Writers Are Seen by the World," German translator Eva Schestag, who translated the full version of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, said the event offered ...

GAZA -- Israel handed over 15 bodies of Palestinians to Gaza on Sunday through the International Committee of the Red Cross, bringing the total number of bodies returned to 150, according to the ...

BEIJING, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) -- Henan FC secured a crucial 2-0 home victory against Changchun Yatai, while Dalian Yingbo was held to a 0-0 draw by Wuhan Three Towns as the Chinese Super League's 27th ...

JERUSALEM, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) -- The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement that it has begun a series of strikes against Hamas militant targets in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday, "in respon ...

CAIRO, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) -- The Egyptian Red Crescent (ERC) on Sunday dispatched a convoy carrying about 8,500 tons of urgent humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip as the Rafah border crossing remains ...