TEHRAN, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Ali Larijani, a former speaker of Iran's parliament, has been appointed as the secretary of the country's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), the semi-official Fars ...

KIGALI, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Rwanda has reached an agreement with the United States to receive up to 250 migrants, reaffirming its long-standing commitment to supporting displaced populations and ...

NAIROBI, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) announced on Tuesday that a 50-member expedition to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro is underw ...

BEIRUT, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Hezbollah Leader Naim Qassem warned Tuesday that any new Israeli war on Lebanon would be met with rocket fire, asserting the group's readiness to retaliate and defend the ...

DHAKA, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Bangladeshi interim government's Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus on Tuesday said he would write to the Election Commission to organize the general election in February 2026, ...

DHAKA -- Bangladeshi interim government's Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus on Tuesday said he would write to the Election Commission to organize the general election in February 2026, before Ramadan, for ...

"The illegal installation of barbed wire by the Thai side in An Ses area (in Preah Vihear province) on August 4, 2025, has been removed, and the machinery has ceased its operations as of the afternoon ...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Coast Guard announced Tuesday that critical failures in design, certification, maintenance, and inspection by the U.S. exploration company OceanGate were the ...

KIEV, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday that he held a "productive" phone conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump over putting an end to the ...

NEW YORK, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he has a shortlist of four candidates to succeed Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, without U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott ...

The secretariat-level meeting of the Thailand-Cambodia General Border Committee (GBC) began on Aug. 4 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and is scheduled to run until Aug. 6. The meeting serves as a ...

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has ordered federal prosecutors to launch a grand jury investigation into allegations that officials from former President Barack Obama's administration ...