BEIRUT, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- In a remote field in southern Lebanon, 60-year-old farmer Salem Abdallah kneeled beside his cracked, dry soil, running his fingers through the dust. He looked up at the sky, ...

MANILA, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- A helicopter crashed Saturday afternoon in the Philippines' Nueva Ecija province, north of Manila, the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) confirmed. Local ...

KHARTOUM -- At least 45 civilians were killed and 82 others injured in a shelling by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Saturday on a crowded market in Omdurman, north of the Sudanese ...

DAMASCUS, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- A car bomb explosion rocked the city of Manbij in northern Syria on Saturday, killing at least three people, state-run Al-Ekhbaria TV reported.

CAIRO, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Palestinian Authority (PA), and the Arab League (AL) stressed in a joint statement on Saturday the ...

BEIRUT, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- The Israeli army has completed its withdrawal from the western sector of southern Lebanon, paving the way for the deployment of the Lebanese army in the area, a Lebanese ...

KHARTOUM, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- At least 45 civilians were killed and 82 others injured in a shelling by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Saturday on a crowded market in Omdurman, north of ...

RIYADH, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- Saudi Arabia's Diriyah Company expects more investments from China in its flagship Diriyah project, the company's chief marketing officer, Kiran Jay Haslam, said in a recent ...

NEW DELHI, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- Indian security forces on Saturday gunned down at least eight armed rebels, locally called "Naxals", in the country's central state of Chhattisgarh, confirmed a ...

DHAKA, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- Bangladesh's largest annual book fair kicked off in the capital of Dhaka on Saturday. Bangladeshi interim government's Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus inaugurated the month-long ...

HARARE, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- The World Bank (WB) has warned that climate change could erode up to 12 percent of Zimbabwe's gross domestic product (GDP) annually if the country does not implement robust ...

KAMPALA, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- The World Health Organization (WHO) has donated 2,160 doses of Ebola trial vaccine to Uganda to evaluate the efficacy of the vaccine in combating the virus which in the ...