The China men's basketball team has broken its slump and regained confidence by embracing global basketball trends, head ...

BUDAPEST, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- Hungary celebrated its state foundation day on Wednesday with a wide range of cultural, religious, and festive programs, including a lavish firework show, honoring the ...

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- Egypt opened on Wednesday an exhibition for sunken antiquities at the Alexandria National Museum, showcasing treasures from the Mediterranean seabed.

DAMASCUS -- U.S.-led coalition forces carried out an airborne raid on a house in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib on Wednesday, killing a man, reportedly an Islamic State commander, according ...

KUWAIT CITY, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- Kuwait has kicked off a major environmental cleanup effort as the first unit of an oil lake crude recovery project, led by China's Jereh Group, completed its trial run ...

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said the more than 3,000 housing units scheme for settlers as part of the E1 plan would essentially cut off the northern and central ...

LONDON, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- Britain has signed an agreement with Iraq to strengthen migration cooperation, according to a statement issued by the British government on Wednesday.

In findings published recently in the journal Tobacco Control, researchers identified a "striking" consistency: young vapers were not only at greater risk of taking up smoking, but were also likely to ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday urged concerted efforts to write a splendid chapter of Chinese modernization in ...

NEW YORK, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- The American Soybean Association (ASA), representing more than 500,000 U.S. soybean farmers, said Tuesday that U.S. soybean farmers are "standing at a trade and financial ...

TEHRAN, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi said Wednesday that inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) could return to Iran with approval from the ...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Department of State on Wednesday imposed sanctions on four individuals currently serving on the International Criminal Court (ICC) for having directly engaged ...