At least four people were killed after inmates attempted to escape from a prison in Chad, according to local sources and media reports on Saturday. The incident occurred at 9 p.m. local time on Friday ...

CAIRO, April 19 (Xinhua) -- Egypt's recent interest rate cut can boost market confidence as it sends a positive signal of easing inflation in the country, although the easing pace may be slow, experts ...

MUSCAT, April 19 (Xinhua) -- Oman's Foreign Ministry confirmed Saturday that Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi and U.S. presidential envoy Steve Witkoff have agreed to move into the next ...

NEW DELHI, April 19 (Xinhua) -- At least 11 people were killed and 11 others injured Saturday after a multi-storey residential building collapsed in the Indian national capital territory of Delhi, ...

SANAA, April 19 (Xinhua) -- Yemen's Houthi group said Saturday it shot down another U.S.-made MQ-9 drone over Sanaa province in the past 24 hours. "The drone was shot down, using a locally ...

CAIRO, April 19 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi on Saturday reiterated Egypt's full solidarity and unshakable support to Jordan "in confronting all forms of terrorism and extremist ...

HONG KONG, April 20 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 jolted 45 km SW of Malisbeng, Philippines at 1611 GMT on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of ...

DONGGUAN, China, April 9 (Xinhua) -- The Shanxi Brave Dragons completed a 3-0 sweep by beating the Guangdong Southern Tigers 124-106 in the quarterfinals of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) ...

MOSCOW, April 19 (Xinhua) -- Russia and Ukraine on Saturday exchanged 492 prisoners, said the Russian Defense Ministry. It said that 246 Russian servicemen were "returned from Kiev-controlled ...

MOSCOW, April 19 (Xinhua) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday declared a unilateral Easter truce for the ongoing conflict with Ukraine. The truce will start from 6:00 p.m. local time (1500 ...

TEHRAN, April 19 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi on Saturday said the negotiations with U.S. delegations in Rome were held in a "constructive" atmosphere and are making ...

"Malnutrition is a crisis inside the crisis. It has actually extremely amplified the situation and the vulnerability of the population in Yemen," Illaria Rasulo, head of mission of Doctors Without ...