WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday unanimously approved a bill that aims to enhance Secret Service protection for the presidential nominees and their ...

ULAN BATOR, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- A photo exhibition marking a long-standing friendship between China and Mongolia opened here in Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia, on Friday.

THE HAGUE, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- The 22-year-old man arrested for Thursday evening's fatal stabbing near the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam of the Netherlands is suspected of a terrorist motive and will ...

MOSCOW, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub have set a new record for the longest single mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS), Russia's state space ...

ADDIS ABABA, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- Ethiopian Airlines, the leading African carrier, announced Friday the addition of three new flights from Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, to Guangzhou, the ...

BAGHDAD, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- Iraqi Shiite militia Kata'ib Hezbollah announced Friday that one of its senior leaders was killed in an Israeli attack in the Syrian capital Damascus. A statement by the ...

Deputy Inspector General of Police Gilbert Masengeli, who was Acting Inspector General of the Police at the time of the disappearance of three human rights activists, had been sentenced to six months ...

China is firmly opposed to Japan's unilateral move of starting the discharge of nuclear-contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station into the ocean, and this position remains ...

BUDAPEST, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- A special conference marking the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Hungary was held here on Friday.

Earlier Friday, the Israeli military said about 120 projectiles were fired from Lebanon into northern Israel, triggering alarms in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, Safed, and Upper Galilee. Some ...

GAZA, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- At least 16 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes on a residential home and a vehicle in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian sources said on Friday. Local Palestinian ...

HONG KONG, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) on Thursday reduced its base interest rate to 5.25 percent, which is widely considered to be conducive to enhancing Hong Kong's ...