JERUSALEM, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday said he had instructed officials to begin "immediate negotiations" for the release of hostages in Gaza and an end ...

LHASA, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- Entrusted by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, members of a central delegation on Thursday visited local officials and ...

TEHRAN, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei on Thursday condemned the U.S. imposition of sanctions on four more officials of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

BAGHDAD, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- Over 25 United Nations agencies and organizations will continue their work in Iraq after the conclusion of the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), a senior UN official ...

Mauritania, located in northwest Africa, is approximately 80 percent covered by the Sahara Desert and experiences an arid climate. Its capital, Nouakchott, home to more than 1.5 million people, relies ...

According to Thursday's update from the European Forest Fire Information System, wildfires have scorched 403,171 hectares of land in Spain so far this year. Around 350,000 hectares were destroyed in ...

UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen on Thursday warned of "a worsening political climate" amid a precarious security situation in Syria.

Eight people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a residential home in the al-Sabra neighborhood, which has been subjected to intense shelling for several days in southern Gaza City, said Mahmoud ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- Russian Aerospace Forces on Thursday successfully launched an Angara-1.2 rocket carrying military satellites from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in the northern ...

JAKARTA, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia, through its state-owned energy company PT Pertamina, is eyeing business opportunities in the development of the ASEAN Power Grid, a flagship regional energy ...

JOHANNESBURG, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- More than 100 pro-Palestine activists launched protests on Thursday in three major South African cities, calling on the government to ban coal exports to Israel, ...

The protest, held in front of the Rashad Shawa Cultural Center in the city center, brought together men, women, and children carrying Palestinian flags and banners reading, "No to displacement," "Stop ...