MOSCOW -- Russia and Ukraine on Saturday exchanged 307 prisoners each under an agreement reached during recent talks in Istanbul, said the Russian Defense Ministry.

The Second Orchid Awards Jury Meeting convened in Beijing on Friday and recommended 10 award winners for their contributions ...

KHARTOUM, May 24 (Xinhua) -- Sudanese Minister of Health Haitham Mohamed Ibrahim on Saturday announced a "surge" in cholera cases in the capital, Khartoum, amid reports of at least 2,500 cases being ...

Mahmoud Basal, a spokesperson for the authority, told Xinhua that 17 people were killed and dozens wounded in Israeli strikes targeting a house and gatherings west and east of Khan Younis, in the ...

CANNES, France, May 24 (Xinhua) -- Chinese director Bi Gan won on Saturday the Special Award at the 78th Cannes Film Festival for his epic fiction feature Resurrection, known in Chinese as Kuang Ye ...

VALLETTA, May 24 (Xinhua) -- The first Duanwu Cup dragon boat friendship race in Malta was held Saturday in the historic eastern Maltese city of Birgu to mark the traditional Chinese Dragon Boat ...

TRIPOLI, May 24 (Xinhua) -- Libya's state-owned National Oil Corporation (NOC) announced on Saturday that it had shut down a pipeline following the discovery of an oil leak south of Zawiya, about 45 ...

The envoy, Maria Angela Holguin Cuellar, a seasoned Colombian diplomat, held a 75-minute meeting on Friday with Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides, marking the start of a critical round of ...

GAZA, May 24 (Xinhua) -- The Hamas-run Gaza government media office said Saturday that the humanitarian aid that has entered the Gaza Strip accounts for less than 1 percent of the Gaza population's ...

CAPE TOWN, May 24 (Xinhua) -- Cape Town embraced traditional Chinese culture on Saturday with its annual celebration of the Dragon Boat Festival, making a splash in South Africa's legislative capital.

CANNES, France, May 24 (Xinhua) -- Chinese director Bi Gan won on Saturday the Special Award at the 78th Cannes Film Festival for his epic fiction feature Resurrection, known in Chinese as Kuang Ye ...