UNITED NATIONS, United States - India will overtake China as the world's most populous country in the coming week, hitting almost 1.43 billion people, the United Nations said Monday. "By the end of this month, India's population is expected to reach 1,425,775,850 people, matching and then...
WASHINGTON, United States - After months of teasing, President Joe Biden is expected finally to announce his bid for a second term Tuesday, defying lukewarm polls and, at 80, boldly pushing what were once considered age boundaries for one of the planet's most stressful jobs. "Stay tuned,"...
WASHINGTON, United States -Â The US Justice Department announced the indictment Monday of an Ohio man who allegedly tried to burn down a church hosting drag shows after watching internet videos of French drag performances. Aimenn Penny was charged with arson, possession of an incendiary device...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- New Zealand is assessing the possibility of a tsunami risk after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake jolted the country's northeast islands region. The quake hit the Kermadec Islands region with a depth of 49 km at 12:41 p.m. local time. People should be self-evacuating...
UNITED NATIONS, April 22 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday called on the international community to accelerate climate action with deeper, faster emissions cuts. "We need accelerated climate action with deeper, faster emissions cuts to limit global temperature rise to...
NEW YORK, April 23 (Xinhua) -- Although "wrong place, wrong time" shootings repeatedly happened in decades ago in the United States, it still dominates media and social attention currently, said USA Today on Saturday. "Deadly overreactions to 'wrong place' events have brought tragic consequences...
DAR ES SALAAM, April 22 (Xinhua) -- A group of 28 Chinese tourists aboard Ethiopian Airlines touched down Saturday afternoon at the Kilimanjaro International Airport (KIA), which is located in Hai District, Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania. They are the first batch of tourists from China after the...
STOCKHOLM, April 23 (Xinhua) -- "NATO is nothing but the war machine of the United States," Nellie Puig, a Swede protesting her country joining the military alliance, told Xinhua in central Stockholm on Saturday. "It is not a defensive alliance as they claim. It is an organization that runs the...
VATICAN CITY, Holy See - Pope Francis on Sunday called for dialogue between warring military factions in Sudan as a bloody outbreak of fighting entered a second week. "Unfortunately the situation remains grave in Sudan. "That is why I am renewing my call for the violence to stop as...
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Khartoum, Sudan (AFP) - Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said Sunday it had "coordinated with" American troops to evacuate Washington's embassy in Khartoum, where fighting between the paramilitary group and the army entered a second week following a brief lull. The fighting in Sudan has left...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia- More than 150 people, including foreign diplomats and officials, rescued from battle-scarred Sudan arrived Saturday in Jeddah, the Saudi foreign ministry said, in the first announced evacuation of civilians since fighting began. The evacuation was carried out by the...
