People do a Drop, Cover and Hold On earthquake drill at the Port of Vancouver in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on Oct.

People participate in the startup festival in Ta' Qali, Malta, on Oct. 17, 2024. The fourth Malta's annual startup festival ...

The KCNA said the DPRK leader reminded to the armed forces of "the stark fact that the ROK is a foreign country and an apparent hostile country," referring to South Korea by using the acronym of its ...

HONG KONG, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- Negotiations on the Convention on the Establishment of The International Organization for Mediation concluded on Thursday, said a spokesperson for the Department of ...

The government had temporarily banned the activities of student and school unions nationwide following the assassination of two students, members of the Student and School Federation of Cote d'Ivoire ...

KHARTOUM, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- Sudan has recorded 2,520 dengue fever cases, including 13 deaths, in five states, the Health Ministry announced on Thursday in a statement. The infections were reported ...

JERUSALEM/GAZA, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Israel Security Agency (ISA) jointly confirmed Thursday that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed in the Gaza Strip by ...

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- More than 10 million Californians on Thursday took part in an annual statewide earthquake preparedness drill, the world's largest earthquake drill.

DOHA, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- Qatari Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday discussed the ...

BEIRUT, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon since the beginning of the Israel-Hezbollah conflict on Oct. 8, 2023, has reached 2,412, and the number of wounded ...

After his release, Sinwar was elected to Hamas's political bureau during the movement's internal elections in 2012, where he took charge of security matters. In 2013, he assumed leadership of Hamas's ...