In mid-2023, the U.S. government appointed its first coordinator for Caribbean firearms prosecutions to help curb weapon smuggling from the United States to the region, with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol ...

PORT SUDAN, Sudan, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- The Sudanese government on Wednesday decided to extend the opening of the Adre border crossing with Chad for three months to facilitate the delivery of ...

VIENNA, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- Austria's three leading political parties began coalition talks on Wednesday to negotiate the formation of a new government.

BAGHDAD, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- Iraq's poverty rate has fallen to 17 percent, down from around 23 percent two years ago, the Ministry of Planning said on Wednesday, according to the Iraqi News Agency ...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Senate Republicans on Wednesday elected John Thune, a senator from South Dakota and the current Republican whip, to succeed Mitch McConnell as the next Senate ...

BERLIN, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- Germany is set to continue falling well behind other advanced economies in 2024, the German Council of Economic Experts said on Wednesday. The council, which advises the ...

ADDIS ABABA, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has recommended the first locally manufactured real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test for ...

The steep fall in Indian stock markets led to an estimated loss of nearly 13 trillion Indian Rupees (around 154 billion U.S. dollars) to investors over the past two days, said domestic media reports.

NEW YORK, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- An explosion at a chemical manufacturing plant in Louisville, U.S. state of Kentucky, on Tuesday afternoon killed two employees with more than ten others injured, ...

DAMASCUS, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- Explosions shook areas near the Syrian-Lebanese border in central Homs province on Wednesday night, local media reported.

SHIJIAZHUANG, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Wednesday urged north China's Hebei Province to make new progress in promoting the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei ...

NAIROBI, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- Sustained investments in mini-grids are crucial to expanding access to clean energy for off-grid communities in Africa, officials said at a virtual forum Wednesday. John ...