The group also targeted U.S. aircraft carriers, USS Harry S. Truman and USS Carl Vinson, along with their escorts in the Red Sea and Arabian Sea, he added, noting this was the first time that the ...

KATHMANDU -- Forty-one people have lost their lives and 257 others sustained injuries in pre-monsoon disasters in Nepal, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority said on Friday.

ISLAMABAD, April 18 (Xinhua) -- Four terrorists were killed during a joint operation of security forces and law enforcement agencies in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the military ...

LIBREVILLE, April 18 (Xinhua) -- The new provisional "consolidated" results have indicated that Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema secured 94.85 percent of the votes in Gabon's presidential election, up ...

BEIJING, April 18 (Xinhua) -- Since the start of this year, Chinese cyberspace authorities have imposed punitive measures on more than 11,000 online accounts for publishing illegal and harmful content ...

JINAN, April 18 (Xinhua) -- The Qingdao Eagles edged the Zhejiang Lions 85-83, leading the series 2-1, while the Liaoning Flying Leopards defeated the Xinjiang Flying Tigers 101-79, eliminating them 3 ...

The system, which enables simultaneous takeoffs and landings, was put into operation at 10:00 a.m. local time (0700 GMT) on Thursday. With this system, Istanbul Airport became the first in Europe and ...

SHANGHAI, April 18 (Xinhua) -- China No. 1 Li Haotong roared up the leaderboard during the second round of the Volvo China Open on Friday to grab a share of the lead with Spain's Eugenio Chacarra and ...

JERUSALEM, April 18 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a statement on Friday that he is committed, along with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and all parties, to leading a ...

NEW DELHI, April 18 (Xinhua) -- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday hailed the inclusion of the Hindu holy book Bhagavad Gita and Bharat Muni's Natyashastra (a Sanskrit treatise on the ...

According to the Hong Kong Tourism Board's latest statistics, the spending of Chinese mainland overnight visitors on entertainment grew by 61.3 percent to 4.19 billion HK dollars last year. Activities ...

TOKYO, April 18 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5 struck Japan's Nagano Prefecture on Friday night, with no tsunami threat, according to the country's weather agency.