TOKYO, Japan -- Ten people were rescued from a burning pleasure boat in Tokyo Bay on Wednesday, according to the Japan Coast Guard. The coast guard said an emergency call was made from the vessel at around 1:00 p.m. local time reporting that the boat's engine was on fire. The boat has sunk, and no...
BEIJING, China -- Chinese Vice President Han Zheng met with U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry in Beijing on Wednesday. Addressing climate change is an important aspect of China-U.S. cooperation, Han said, adding that it is imperative to implement the consensus reached by the...
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador --Â A magnitude 6.8 earthquake off the coast of Central America shook El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua on Tuesday, though without any immediate damage reported, according to Salvadoran authorities. The quake was registered at 6:22 pm (0222 GMT) in the Pacific Ocean,...
BANGKOK, Thailand–Thai election chiefs on Wednesday asked the country's top court to suspend Pita Limjaroenrat, the frontrunner in the race to become prime minister, over allegations he broke campaign rules as an MP. The recommendation is the latest hurdle thrown into the path of the...
US Climate Envoy John Kerry and China's Premier Li Qiang (R) shake hands before a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on July 18, 2023. (Photo by FLORENCE LO / POOL / AFP) BEIJING, China– US climate envoy John Kerry met China's top diplomat Wang Yi in Beijing on Tuesday,...
BRAZZAVILLE, July 17 (Xinhua) -- An outbreak of cholera, shigellosis and typhoid fever was declared in Dolisie, a city in the Republic of the Congo, following reports a disease that has killed 12 people, the Congolese government said Monday evening, urging people in the regions not yet in epidemic...
KIEV, July 17 (Xinhua) -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday that his country hopes to continue the Black Sea grain deal after Russia's withdrawal, Zelensky's spokesman Sergii Nykyforov said on Facebook. "Even without the Russian Federation, everything must be done so that we can use...
WARSAW, July 17 (Xinhua) -- Five people were killed, and five others were injured after a Cessna plane crashed into an airfield hangar in central Poland on Monday evening. In the city of Chrcynno, the plane "hit the hangar where people were sheltering," Andrzej Bartkowiak, chief commandant of the...
WASHINGTON, United States– US President Joe Biden will host a Vatican envoy later this month to discuss the "brutal war" in Ukraine, the White House said Monday. Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi, archbishop of Bologna and president of the Italian Episcopal Conference, will visit the White House on...
TAIPEI, Taiwan–Taiwan on Monday said Vice President William Lai will attend the inauguration of Paraguay's new president next month with US stopovers, a move likely to spark a rebuke from Beijing. Lai will lead a delegation to Asuncion for the inauguration of Santiago Pena on August 15...
WASHINGTON, United States– President Joe Biden agreed Monday to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later this year in the United States but declined, amid months of tension, to specify if this would be at the White House. The offer of a meeting, made on the eve of a White...
ANKARA, Türkiye -- Wildfires broke out in the southern and western provinces of Türkiye over the weekend as summer heat grips a large swathe of the country, local media reported on Monday.    Wildfires were reported in the southern Turkish provinces of Hatay and Mersin as well as the...
