QUITO, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- Two people, including an official working for Ecuador's national prison administration agency SNAI, were wounded early Thursday when armed assailants opened fire on their ...

NIAMEY, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- During a council of ministers meeting held Thursday, the Nigerien government decided to postpone the school year to Oct. 28 from the initially scheduled date of Oct. 2 due ...

SARAJEVO, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- Border Police of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) arrested a Turkish national on Thursday after he was caught smuggling 11 Syrian citizens near the Gradiška border, a ...

Once these agreements are ratified, WADB will disburse a total of 81.6 billion CFA francs (approximately 138 million U.S. dollars) to finance three major structural projects in Cote d'Ivoire.

The lethal combination of hunger, displacement and disease outbreaks in Sudan is creating "a perfect storm" for a catastrophic loss of lives, UN humanitarians warned on Thursday. The UN Office for the ...

MADRID, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- Some 400 representatives of auto dealers and manufacturers from Spain and China met in Madrid on Thursday at the first Spanish-Chinese automotive summit, which aims to ...

VALLETTA, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- By 2030, 30 percent of Malta's land and fishery zone will be legally protected, according to a biodiversity strategy and action plan released on Thursday.

FRANKFURT, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- Germany's benchmark DAX index surged over one percent on Thursday, closing at a record high. The DAX climbed 1.55 percent to end at 19,002.38 points, marking its ...

NICOSIA, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- A recent study suggests that the first humans to settle on the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus were responsible for driving two unique megafauna species to ...

BRUSSELS, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- Executives from over 20 major tech firms on Thursday expressed their concerns over the European Union (EU)'s regulatory framework on artificial intelligence (AI) in an ...

NEW YORK, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- A U.S. national pro-Palestinian group, the Uncommitted National Movement, announced in a statement Thursday that it will not endorse Vice President Kamala Harris, and ...

OTTAWA, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- The number of Canadians receiving regular employment insurance (EI) benefits totaled 489,000, up 2.2 percent in July from a month earlier which was the third consecutive ...