HONG KONG, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 jolted Southeast of Ryukyu Islands at 1216 GMT on Sunday, the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with ...

BEIRUT, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- An Israeli airstrike targeting the office of Syria's Ba'ath Party in central Beirut on Sunday noon has killed Hezbollah Media Chief Mohammad Afif, local TV channel ...

COLOMBO, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- The Sri Lankan navy said on Sunday that it seized a local fishing trawler and arrested five suspects for smuggling narcotics on Saturday.

TOKYO, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- A collision between two boats off the coast of Kudamatsu in Japan's Yamaguchi prefecture left three people aboard a pleasure boat dead. The accident occurred at around 5:45 ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping published a signed article in Brazilian media outlet Folha de S. Paulo on Sunday under the title "A Friendship Spanning Vast Oceans A ...

TOKYO, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- American world champion Jordan Stolz emerged as the biggest winner at the ISU Four Continents Speed Skating Championships, claiming four gold medals after adding two more in ...

ZHUHAI, Guangdong, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- China's homegrown C919 jetliner and Y-20 transport aircraft are displayed side by side at the ongoing China Airshow in Zhuhai, south China's Guangdong Province.

ADDIS ABABA, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed inaugurated the Ethiopian Federal Police Forensic Investigation and Research Center of Excellence Saturday in Addis Ababa, the ...

AMMAN, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- Jordan's tourism revenue for the first 10 months of this year reached 6.1 billion U.S. dollars, down 4.4 percent from the same period last year, the state-owned Al Mamlaka ...

BEIJING, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter for the official commissioning of the country's first domestically designed and built deep-ocean drilling vessel ...

DAKAR, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- Polling stations officially opened at 8 a.m., local time, Sunday throughout Senegal and abroad for the legislative elections. A total of 7,371,890 Senegalese voters ...

FAIZABAD, Afghanistan, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- Police have arrested two persons on the charge of killing a bear in northern Afghanistan's Badakhshan province to ensure wild animals safety and natural ...