DAMASCUS, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- Armed clashes erupted early Monday between Syrian authorities-affiliated forces and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the eastern countryside of Aleppo ...

LONDON, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- Tottenham Hotspur has signed Portuguese international midfielder Joao Palhinha on loan from Bundesliga champion Bayern Munich, the Premier League outfit confirmed on Monday.

BEIJING, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- China has confirmed its 12-player roster for the 2025 FIBA Asia Cup on Monday, with forward Zhang Ning and point guard Xu Jie being late scratches. The 12 participants are ...

ABUJA, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has showered praises on the country's national women's basketball team for lifting the African championship title at the 2025 FIBA Women's ...

Lamola warned that the proposed tariff could reduce South Africa's gross domestic product by 0.2 percentage points. The United States is South Africa's third-largest trading partner, making up 7.5 ...

BEIJING, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- China has rescued a foreign container ship that caught fire in the South China Sea, saving the lives of its 25 foreign crew members, the Ministry of Transport said on ...

ADEN, Yemen, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- Yemen's currency surged to 1,617 rials per U.S. dollar in government-controlled areas on Monday, a dramatic 40-percent recovery from nearly 2,900 rials weeks prior, whi ...

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- The Brunei Legislative Council passed a motion on Monday to become a member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and Commonwealth Parliamentary Association ...

TIANJIN, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- As night fell, coffee vendors prepared their stalls to soft melodies while young office workers queued up, bringing the fourth Tianjin Coffee Culture Festival to its pinnac ...

MOSCOW, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- The Kremlin on Monday urged caution about U.S. President Donald Trump's remarks on nuclear submarine deployment against Russia.

DHAKA, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- Millions of Bangladeshis, living and working abroad, remitted home nearly 2.5 billion U.S. dollars in July, the first month of the current fiscal year (from July 2025 to June ...

BEIRUT, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- When some 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate exploded on Aug. 4, 2020, the explosion ripped through a modest apartment overlooking the Beirut port, home of then four-year-old ...