Chine and Mongolia are seeking to build stronger economic links by boosting trade to 10 billion U.S. dollars by 2020 and facilitating cargo transportation for landlocked Mongolia. The agreement comes after a meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinpi...
The United States has launched a new barrage of airstrikes against Islamic State extremists and is weighing sending more troops to Iraq as world leaders condemn the killing of American journalist James Foley by the militants. It comes after Islamic S...
Islamic State insurgents has released a video purportedly showing the beheading of U.S. journalist James Foley, who had gone missing in Syria nearly two years ago. The video, titled A Message To America, was posted on social media sites after the Uni...
US President Barack Obama is sending Attorney General Eric Holder to Ferguson, Missouri, to investigate the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white policeman. The decision follows days of violent protests in the St. Louis suburb...
Kurdish forces are now taking over large parts of Iraq's Mosul dam, and vow to continue fighting Islamic militants. The Kurdish operation to take Iraq's largest dam was aided by US air strikes early on Sunday. It comes after the Islamic State's captu...
Embattled Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has agreed to step aside, ending the country's recent political deadlock. The decision follows a meeting between Maliki and Haider al-Abadi, a deputy speaker of parliament, who's been nominated by Iraq's...
Kenyan authorities are now stepping up efforts to prevent the spread of the deadly Ebola virus into East Africa, as the outbreak in West Africa continues to infect new victims and cause death. Meantime, the World Health Organization says more special...
A World Health Organization panel of medical ethicists has ruled it is ethical to offer unproven drugs or vaccines to people infected or at risk of infection in West Africa's deadly Ebola outbreak. Meanwhile, one of three Chinese medical teams sent t...
中国援助物资运抵西非埃博拉疫区 伊拉克总统指派新总理人选 Medical aid from China has arrived in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, to help with the fight against an Ebola outbreak. The aid materials brought by a chartered flig...
Three teams of Chinese disease-control specialists are taking supplies and expertise to Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone to help fight the deadly Ebola virus. Each medical team will be composed of one epidemiologist and two specialists in disinfecti...
Rescuers searching for survivors are coping with fresh landslides and aftershocks near the quake epicenter in southwestern China's Yunnan province. The 72 hour optimum-rescue period has passed and finding survivors is becoming much less likely. As of...
Some 10,000 troops have been dispatched to clear roads and carry out rescue work in southwest China's Yunnan province, where the death toll of a deadly earthquake has risen to 410. The quake has flattened nearly 80,000 homes and injured over 2,300 pe...
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is urging a fast and all-out effort in the search for survivors of the earthquake in Ludian County, Yunnan Province. He is currently in the quake zone overseeing the effort. Meanwhile, blocked roads and rain have hampered t...
Strong aftershocks and heavy rains have been making rescue efforts in Yunnan difficult, following a 6.5-magnitude earthquake in the southwest Chinese province yesterday. At least 367 people have been confirmed dead with more than 18-hundred injured....
At least 20 people have been killed and some 270 others injured in a series of explosions in the city of Kaohsiung in Taiwan. A massive underground gas leak last night set off a series of explosions which have ripped gaping holes around a 3-square ki...
