SARAJEVO, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- A wildfire that broke out Wednesday evening in Neum, southern Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), continued to spread on Thursday, threatening residential houses and olive ...

According to the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, the submerged city of Canopus was renowned for its sacred sanctuaries dedicated to Osiris and Serapis. The city was also known for its ...

THE HAGUE, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- Israeli companies will be excluded from a major arms fair organized by the Netherlands Industries for Defense and Security (NIDV) in November in Rotterdam, organizers ...

LONDON, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- Britain, together with 22 partners, on Thursday condemned the decision of Israel's Higher Planning Committee to approve more than 3,400 housing units in the E1 area of the ...

MOSCOW, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- Russia's Ministry of Transport expects that half of all vehicles will be driverless by 2050, Deputy Transport Minister Vladimir Poteshkin said Thursday.

JERUSALEM, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- Israeli and German researchers have found that a virus living inside a type of deadly fungus can make the fungus far more dangerous to humans, the Hebrew University of J ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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).

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.

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 ...