This photo taken with a mobile phone shows a train by the sea in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Dec. 26, 2024. The coastal railway line, ...

Tourists visit the Citadel archaeological site in Amman, capital of Jordan, Dec. 27, 2024. (Photo by Mohammad Abu ...

VLADIVOSTOK, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck off the southern Kuril Islands in the early hours of Saturday, Russia's RIA Novosti reported.

In the resolution, approved by 14 of the council's 15 member states, with the United States' abstention, the Security Council said that it endorsed the African Union Peace and Security Council's ...

SACRAMENTO, the United States, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- The United States experienced its highest level of homelessness in 2024, with several states reporting triple-digit percentage increases as the ...

NEW YORK, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks dived on profit-taking and wrapped up the holiday-shortened week on a downbeat note on Friday, bringing a largely triumphant year closer to its conclusion.

TIRANA, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- Albania's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said on Friday that new cases of African swine fever have been found in the country. They were detected in ...

BEIJING, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- A meeting of the Communist Party of China (CPC) leadership has stressed strengthening Party ...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- U.S. homelessness in 2024 increased by 18 percent compared to 2023, driven by a national affordable housing crisis, rising inflation, and a surge in migrants, according ...

NEW YORK, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- As much as 36 percent of Americans took on holiday debt this holiday season, up from 34 percent a year ago, according to the latest holiday debt survey of LendingTree, ...

BEIRUT, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- Lebanese security forces on Friday arrested 67 Syrian nationals for illegally entering Lebanon, along with a Lebanese bus driver who was transporting them, the official ...

U.S. commercial crude oil inventories, excluding those in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, dropped by 4.2 million barrels from the previous week to 416.8 million barrels, about 5 percent below the ...