Home decorations are displayed during Mirzaamiyat Ramadan 2026 in Hawalli Governorate, Kuwait, Jan. 8, 2026. The annual event ...

A light projection is presented during a media preview of the Light to Night Singapore held in Singapore's Civic District on Jan. 7, 2026. The festival will run until Jan. 31. (Photo by Then Chih ...

Palestinians receive their food rations through the World Food Programme from one of its distribution centers in Gaza City, ...

DAMASCUS, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- The Syrian army on Thursday launched heavy shelling against positions of the Kurdish-led Syrian ...

Friday's data also showed the producer price index (PPI), which measures costs for goods at the factory gate, fell 1.9 percent year on year in December, narrowing from a 2.2 percent decline in the ...

Elephants are pictured at the Amboseli National Park in Kenya, Jan. 8, 2026. Amboseli National Park is one of Kenya's premier ...

People take part in a protest opposing U.S. attack on Venezuela in front of the U.S. embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, Jan.

Recently reopened to the public for free visits, the tunnel is widely known as the "Liu Mingchuan Tunnel" -- named after the first governor of Taiwan in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), who oversaw its ...

MOSCOW, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- The Russian border city of Belgorod on Thursday night came under a missile strike, Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on his Telegram channel. According to ...

HANOI, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam aims to have five state-owned enterprises ranked among the 500 largest companies in the world by 2045, the government portal reported Friday. The target is set out in ...

HANOI, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam shipped more than 247,400 tons of pepper abroad for 1.66 billion U.S. dollars in 2025, a record for the sector, local daily Dan Tri reported Friday.

PYONGYANG, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), has said he will unconditionally respect and support all policies and decisions of Russian ...