MADRID/LISBON, April 29 (Xinhua) -- Power has been restored across most of Spain and Portugal after a massive blackout plunged the Iberian Peninsula into darkness on Monday, crippling transport, halti ...

On Saturday, a Hamas delegation led by senior leader Khalil al-Hayya agreed in Cairo to release all Israeli hostages in exchange for a five-year truce, an Egyptian security source told Xinhua.

"In his phone calls, the Secretary-General reiterated his strong condemnation of the April 22 terrorist attack that took place in Jammu and Kashmir. The Secretary-General noted the importance of ...

NEW YORK, April 29 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 jolted 126 km SSE of Pangai, Tonga, at 19:16:30 GMT on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of ...

BELGRADE, April 29 (Xinhua) -- Serbian Prime Minister Djuro Macut reaffirmed on Monday that advancing Serbia's European Union accession remains the government's top priority, pledging to accelerate ...

NEW YORK, April 29 (Xinhua) -- The Trump administration has discharged a group of scientists and researchers working on the federal government's evaluation of the impact of climate change, citing the ...

South Africa assumed the G20 presidency on Dec. 1, 2024, which will run through November 2025. The T20, or Think 20, is an official G20 engagement group that brings together think tanks and research ...

NEW YORK, April 29 (Xinhua) -- Earlier this year, the Donald Trump administration cut about 1 billion U.S. dollars in federal aid announced last fall by then U.S. President Joseph Biden to anti-hunger ...

DAMASCUS, April 29 (Xinhua) -- At least 14 people were killed and more than 15 others injured in sectarian clashes in the Damascus suburb of Jaramana, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) re ...

NEW YORK, April 29 (Xinhua) -- A set of chemicals found in food packaging, plastics, and lotions and shampoos has been linked to hundreds of thousands of deaths from heart disease, according to a ...

NEW YORK, April 29 (Xinhua) -- United Parcel Service (UPS) said Tuesday it is cutting 20,000 jobs this year, after deciding in January to reduce the amount of packages it delivers for Amazon, its ...

HELSINKI, April 29 (Xinhua) -- Three individuals were killed in a shooting in the central Swedish town of Uppsala on Tuesday, with many witnesses present at the scene, Swedish media reported. Police ...