Decorated elephants participate in a procession celebrating the Esala Perahera festival in Kandy, Sri Lanka, Aug. 4, 2025.

Rescuers open a manhole to drain water on a flooded road in Duanzhou District of Zhaoqing City, south China's Guangdong ...

Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in Yangzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province, Aug. 5, 2025. The main tower of the bridge witnessed ...

TEHRAN, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Iranian First Vice President Mohammad-Reza Aref on Tuesday accused the United States of backing Israeli "aggression" against Iran despite having no evidence that Iran's ...

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 ...

ANKARA, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- A minibus carrying seasonal agricultural workers veered off the road and plunged into a ravine early Tuesday in the central Turkish province of Sivas, leaving four people ...

"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 ...

LONDON, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Across Scotland, 95 percent of the railway network affected by Storm Floris on Monday has now been reopened, Route Director Ross Moran at Network Rail Scotland confirmed on ...

MOSCOW, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) announced on Tuesday that it had foiled an assassination attempt targeting the head of a defense industry enterprise in Belgorod.

JERUSALEM, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Israel's military said 110 humanitarian aid packages were airdropped Tuesday over Gaza, where international aid experts say famine is unfolding after nearly 22 months of ...

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 news agency reported on ...

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 ...