Decorated elephants participate in a procession celebrating the Esala Perahera festival in Kandy, Sri Lanka, Aug. 4, 2025.

Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in Yangzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province, Aug. 5, 2025. The main tower of the bridge witnessed ...

Rescuers open a manhole to drain water on a flooded road in Duanzhou District of Zhaoqing City, south China's Guangdong ...

NEW YORK, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he has a shortlist of four candidates to succeed Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, without U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott ...

Shi Renhua looks for files at the 9.18 Historical Museum in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province, July 28, 2025. Shi ...

MOSCOW, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) announced on Tuesday that it had foiled an assassination attempt targeting the head of a defense industry enterprise in Belgorod.

"The illegal installation of barbed wire by the Thai side in An Ses area (in Preah Vihear province) on August 4, 2025, has been removed, and the machinery has ceased its operations as of the afternoon ...

ANKARA, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Türkiye has appointed Land Forces Commander Selcuk Bayraktaroglu as the new chief of staff of the military during the annual Supreme Military Council meeting held on Tuesday ...

KATHMANDU, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- The 11th Chinese culture talent competition for Nepali students was held here on Tuesday. Nearly 300 contestants demonstrated their talents through 10 Chinese songs and ...

The secretariat-level meeting of the Thailand-Cambodia General Border Committee (GBC) began on Aug. 4 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and is scheduled to run until Aug. 6. The meeting serves as a ...

KIEV, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday that he held a "productive" phone conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump over putting an end to the ...

Ali Larijani, a former speaker of Iran's parliament, has been appointed as the secretary of the country's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), the semi-official Fars news agency reported on ...