DAMASCUS -- A massive explosion caused by unexploded ordnance rocked Syria's wildfire-stricken Latakia countryside on Friday, where fire crews have been battling the blazes for the ninth consecutive ...

LIMA, July 11 (Xinhua) -- At least five people were killed in a road accident Thursday afternoon in Peru's southeastern region of Puno after their vehicle plunged into a ravine, local media reported ...

NEW YORK, July 11 (Xinhua) -- A son of now-jailed Mexican drug lord Joaquin Guzman Loera, alias "El Chapo," pleaded guilty in a U.S. federal court on Friday.

PARIS, July 11 (Xinhua) -- The Paris prosecutor's office announced on Friday that the social media platform X is under investigation by French police.

BEIRUT, July 11 (Xinhua) -- Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said on Friday that it is important to renew the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon for another year for its vital ...

NEW YORK, July 11 (Xinhua) -- It is not on the agenda of the White House to abolish the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) outright, The Washington Post on Friday cited an official source, as ...

NEW YORK, July 11 (Xinhua) -- U.S.-based multinational food company Kraft Heinz is preparing to break itself up, a decade after a merger of two of the biggest names in packaged foods that was ...

Official and security sources in Lebanon reported earlier that Mohammad Hassan Shuaib was killed and five others were injured in an Israeli drone strike targeting a car in the town of Al-Numairiyah in ...

LOS ANGELES, July 11 (Xinhua) -- A substantial majority of California voters believe that U.S. democracy is in serious trouble, according to a new poll recently published by the Institute of ...

OSLO, July 11 (Xinhua) -- The Norwegian government is providing 40 million Norwegian kroner (approximately 3.9 million U.S. dollars) to support emergency humanitarian efforts by the World Food ...

BAGHDAD, July 11 (Xinhua) -- The Iraqi Foreign Ministry welcomed on Friday the announcement made by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) regarding the beginning of the disarmament process, the initial ...

JERUSALEM, July 11 (Xinhua) -- An international research group has found that extreme cold snaps in the United States are driven by disruptions in a high-altitude Arctic air mass called the polar ...