CARACAS, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Nicolas Maduro on Friday was sworn in as Venezuelan president for a third term. Taking the oath before National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez and on the Constitution, ...

The Australian government has committed additional humanitarian assistance for Vanuatu following December's deadly earthquake. Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong and Minister for International ...

COLOMBO, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka earned approximately 3.17 billion U.S. dollars from tourism in 2024, latest statistics from the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) shows. This is a 53.2 percent ...

SYDNEY, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- One man has died and two more have been hospitalized after a knife fight at a park in Melbourne's southwest in Australia.

Beijing has made a fresh rebuke to some voices labeling China's recent cases of infection with human metapneumovirus, or HMPV, as an "unknown virus", calling such claims "run counter to basic ...

SANAA -- One person was killed and nine others were wounded in the U.S.-British-Israeli joint airstrikes on northern Yemen on Friday afternoon, Houthi-run al-Masirah TV reported.

UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- An estimated 3.2 million children under 5 are projected to suffer from acute malnutrition this year in war-torn and famine-afflicted Sudan, a UN spokesman said on ...

Also on Friday, the far-right Freedom Party, which won the September parliamentary elections, officially began coalition negotiations with the conservative People's Party. The talks are set to ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva on Friday warned that global economy in 2025 faces heightened uncertainty due to economic ...

BEIRUT, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Joseph Aoun, Lebanon's former army chief, was elected the 14th president of Lebanon on Thursday, ending a two-year presidential vacuum that had paralyzed the country's ...

Among the changes, Meta is ending the company's "Diverse Slate Approach" of considering qualified candidates from underrepresented groups for its open roles. The company is also putting an end to its ...

LUANDA, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Angola's Ministry of Health (MINSA) provided a bulletin Friday evening on the country's cholera outbreak, reporting 119 cases including 12 deaths as of 6 p.m., with 14 ...