​In the predawn hours of Sunday, a commercial flight from Washington D.C. touched down in Beijing carrying an extraordinary ...

JERUSALEM -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said Sunday that an Israeli negotiation team is engaged in indirect talks in Qatar's capital Doha on a hostage release deal with Hamas, ...

CAIRO, May 18 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi on Sunday called for reaching an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and facilitating the flow of humanitarian aid into the war-torn ...

LISBON, May 18 (Xinhua) -- The center-right Democratic Alliance, led by incumbent Prime Minister Luis Montenegro, won the most seats in Portugal's parliamentary elections Sunday, according to official ...

NEW YORK, May 18 (Xinhua) -- U.S. former President Joe Biden was diagnosed with aggressive form of prostate cancer on Friday, said a statement from his personal office on Sunday. The cancer, ...

"Reaching an agreement with the United States is achievable. However, making that happen requires a fundamental condition that the American side refrains from the approach of coercion," Pezeshkian ...

The Polish president serves a five-year term. Under election law, if no candidate secures more than half of the vote, a runoff is held between the top two contenders. In the 2020 election, incumbent ...

JERUSALEM, May 18 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Sunday a decision to lift the blockade on Gaza to allow the entry of limited aid, as international criticism mounts ...

According to an exit poll conducted by the AVANGARDE Socio-Behavioral Studies Group, Dan, an independent candidate, secured 54.9 percent of the vote, while Simion, the head of the Alliance for the ...

ADEN, Yemen, May 18 (Xinhua) -- A senior military commander affiliated with the Yemeni government forces was killed by gunmen in an ambush on Sunday in the southeastern province of Hadramout, a local ...

BUCHAREST, May 18 (Xinhua) -- Nicusor Dan, the mayor of Bucharest and an independent candidate, has won Romania's presidential runoff election, defeating his rival George Simion, according to ...

ADEN, Yemen, May 18 (Xinhua) -- Yemen's Houthi group announced Sunday that it would conduct military operations against Ben Gurion Airport and other unspecified Israeli airports within hours, in ...