NEW YORK, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Two people were killed after a helicopter crashed into a barge on the upper reaches of the Mississippi River between the U.S. midwestern states of Illinois and Missouri on ...

BEIRUT -- Six people were killed and 10 others injured Thursday in two separate Israeli airstrikes on eastern Lebanon, according to official Lebanese sources.

GENEVA, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Thursday that the desperation in Gaza has led to a breakdown of law and order, calling for ...

In June, facing the deepest funding cuts ever to hit the international humanitarian system, OCHA launched a hyper-prioritized global appeal to help 114 million people by targeting the most urgent ...

The alert comes amid what has become Portugal's worst wildfire season since 2022. According to the Integrated Rural Fire Management System (SGIFR), forest fires have consumed nearly 42,000 hectares in ...

In central Gaza, a family of four was killed in an Israeli airstrike on an apartment in the al-Salhi Tower west of the Nuseirat refugee camp, and five aid seekers were killed by Israeli army fire near ...

The New York Times previously reported that Trump intends to meet in person with Putin as early as next week, with plans to follow shortly afterward with a trilateral meeting involving Ukrainian ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- OpenAI on Thursday released GPT-5, its new flagship artificial intelligence (AI) model set to power the next generation of ChatGPT chatbot.

BUCHAREST, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Former Romanian President Ion Iliescu was laid to rest with state and military honours on Thursday at the Ghencea III Military Cemetery in Bucharest. Iliescu passed away ...

TEHRAN, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi has called for convening an extraordinary meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on the ongoing humanitarian ...

The Public Health Emergency Operations Center, affiliated with the Ministry of Public Health, said in a release that one Israeli airstrike on the Masnaa road initially resulted in five deaths and 10 ...

UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres made it clear that he believes all trade wars are ruinous and need to be avoided, his spokesperson said Thursday.