TEHRAN, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) on Sunday approved the establishment of the country's defense council presided over by President Masoud Pezeshkian, the ...

MANAMA, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese fine brushwork painting exhibition opened on Sunday at the Bahrain Art Centre in Manama, Bahrain, showcasing nearly 50 flower-and-bird artworks by Chinese artist ...

JERUSALEM/SANAA, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- The Israeli military said on Sunday it intercepted a drone launched from Yemen. In a statement, the military said sirens in Bnei Netzarim, southern Israel, were ...

Alex Outhwaite visited China's Guizhou Province and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in May. She said it was her first time in China, and an unforgettable one. "We visited many traditional Miao and ...

DAMASCUS, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- Syria's interior authorities on Sunday accused Druze armed factions in the southern province of Sweida of violating a ceasefire agreement by launching coordinated attacks ...

JOHANNESBURG, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- South Africa is enhancing security at ports of entry by introducing measures such as the use of drones and traceable stamps, an official from the Border Management ...

BEIJING, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- Torrential rains have battered multiple parts of China, triggering road collapses, resident evacuations and heightened flood risks, as authorities raised emergency response ...

BEIJING, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- China's Ministry of Water Resources on Sunday elevated its emergency response to flooding in Gansu and Qinghai to Level-III, the third-highest in the country's four-tier ...

GAZA, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- Thousands of Palestinians took to the street on Sunday in several West Bank cities, denouncing the ongoing Israeli military offensive on the Gaza Strip and its restriction on ...

"We are against economic sanctions in any case, except when authorized by the UN Security Council," Celso Amorim, special advisor to the president of Brazil, told CNN Brazil in response to the U.S.

MOGADISHU, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- The African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM) confirmed on Sunday that its troops, backed by Somali government forces, killed more than 50 ...

HANOI, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- Heavy rains from Thursday to Friday triggered deadly floods and landslides in northern Vietnam's Dien Bien and Son La provinces, leaving 10 people dead and four injured, the ...