KABUL, April 4 (Xinhua) -- Flash floods caused by torrential rains have claimed 77 lives and left 137 others injured across Afghanistan, the country's National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) ...

ADDIS ABABA, April 4 (Xinhua) -- Ethiopia's Addis Ababa University (AAU) has signed a cooperation agreement with two regional education bureaus to foster the provision of quality Chinese language ...

DAKAR, April 4 (Xinhua) -- Senegal on Saturday marked the 66th anniversary of its independence with celebrations held across the country, highlighted by a grand civil-military parade presided over by ...

On March 21, Trump threatened to "hit and obliterate" Iranian power plants if the country fails to fully open the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours. Two days later, however, he postponed strikes on ...

NEW YORK, April 4 (Xinhua) -- U.S. federal agents have arrested the niece and grand-niece of the late Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Qassem Soleimani after their permanent ...

BEIJING, April 4 (Xinhua) -- In a rainy day in 2006, 19-year-old motorcycle mechanic Zhang Xue rode 100 kilometers through muddy mountainous roads in China's Hunan Province, shivering in soaked ...

MOSCOW, April 4 (Xinhua) -- The risk of a nuclear incident is on the rise following a U.S.-Israeli strike near Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant, the head of Russia's state nuclear corporation ...

BAGHDAD, April 4 (Xinhua) -- An unidentified drone targeted the offices belonging to a U.S. company at an oilfield in Iraq's southern province of Basra on Saturday, causing material damage and a fire, ...

Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem said in a press statement that the Israeli army's Gaza Division commander's claims about Hamas planning to kidnap Israeli soldiers were "false and baseless allegations, ...

TEHRAN, April 4 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Minister of Science, Research and Technology Hossein Simaei-Sarraf said on Saturday more than 30 Iranian universities have been directly attacked by the United ...

ABU DHABI, April 4 (Xinhua) -- The United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Saturday strongly condemned what it said were acts of rioting, attempted vandalism and attacks targeting its embassy and the residence ...

LIMA, April 4 (Xinhua) -- At least one person died and 47 others were injured Friday night in an incident at Alejandro Villanueva Stadium in Peru's capital here, authorities said.