COLOMBO -- Over 35 people were hospitalized after a head-on collision between two buses in Sri Lanka's Southern Province on Sunday morning, police said in a statement. Six individuals sustained ...

ISLAMABAD, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan's spin bowler Sajid Khan took five wickets on Sunday to lead Pakistan to a commanding 127-run victory over the West Indies in the first Test of the two-match ...

GAZA -- At least eight Palestinians were killed by Israeli army attacks in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, a Palestinian official said. In a press statement, Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for the Palestinian ...

JERUSALEM, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- Israel confirmed on Sunday afternoon that Hamas transferred three female Israeli hostages to the Red Cross in Gaza, as a ceasefire deal took effect, more than 15 months ...

JAKARTA, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- A delegation of the Communist Party of China (CPC), led by Liu Jianchao, head of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, visited Indonesia from Thursday ...

JERUSALEM, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- A tense ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas took effect on Sunday, initiating six weeks of calm and raising hopes for an end to 15 months of Israeli assaults on ...

JERUSALEM/GAZA, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- Hamas began releasing three Israeli hostages to the Red Cross on Sunday, Israel's state-owned Kan TV news reported, hours after a Gaza ceasefire took effect, ...

ABUJA, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- A mass funeral has been held for the victims of Saturday's gasoline tanker explosion in Nigeria's north-central state of Niger, local authorities said on Sunday, while ...

XI'AN, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- China successfully completed three ignition tests for liquid oxygen-kerosene engines on Sunday, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC).

COLOMBO, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- The Maldives will begin to repatriate undocumented expatriates identified through biometrics data collection under the ongoing "Kuran'gi Operation", PSM News, the official ...

According to the African Union (AU) and the African Development Bank, Africa is home to the youngest population in the world, with over 400 million people aged 15 to 35 and its youth population is ...

ALMATY, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- The Kazakh Ministry of Agriculture has decided to impose a six-month ban on potato exports to non-Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) countries to stabilize domestic potato ...