DAMASCUS, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- Syria's interim government has assumed security oversight of Qamishli airport in the country's northeastern province of Hasakah, marking another step in the ...

SANTIAGO, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from a truck explosion on a highway in Chile's capital Santiago has risen to six, Chilean health authorities said on Saturday.

MILAN, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- Jorrit Bergsma and Marijke Groenewoud claimed the men's and women's mass start golds here on Saturday as Dutch speed skaters wrapped up their journey at the Milan-Cortina ...

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- In a showdown featuring three pairs of Olympic champions, Laura Nolte and Deborah Levi of Germany retained the title in the two-woman bobsled at the Milan ...

ANTERSELVA, Italy, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- The biathlon competitions at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics concluded on Saturday with France's Oceane Michelon claiming gold in the women's 12.5km mass start ...

CAIRO/RIYADH, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- The Arab League, Egypt and Saudi Arabia on Saturday condemned remarks by U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee that Israel has the right to claim control over the ...

Oil supplies to Slovakia and Hungary were suspended following an attack on the Druzhba pipeline on Jan. 27, Ukrainian officials said. Slovakia has declared an oil emergency.

KIEV, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- The Ukrainian side will do everything necessary so that the next round of negotiations between Ukraine, the United States and Russia can deliver results for Ukraine and peace ...

JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Saturday paid tribute to the country's soldiers and reaffirmed the nation's foreign policy of non-alignment while ...

LIVIGNO, Italy, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- The women's freeski halfpipe final at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, originally scheduled for 19:30 local time on Saturday, has been rescheduled for Sunday, the ...

On Jan. 19, a section of Potomac Interceptor, a major sewage pipeline operated by DC Water, collapsed, releasing over 200 million gallons of wastewater into the Potomac River. Bowser declared on Feb.

BORMIO, Italy, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- France's Emily Harrop and Thibault Anselmet powered to mixed relay gold on Saturday, bringing the curtain down on ski mountaineering's Olympic debut at the ...