UNITED NATIONS, May 20 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday welcomed the adoption of the global pandemic agreement at the World Health Organization (WHO).

NEW YORK, May 20 (Xinhua) -- Former U.S. President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that has spread to the bone, and doctors not involved in his care said his ...

TEHRAN, May 20 (Xinhua) -- Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi on Tuesday said the U.S. positions on Tehran's uranium enrichment are "unreasonable and illogical," according to the official ...

MEXICO CITY, May 20 (Xinhua) -- Two close collaborators of Mexico City Mayor Clara Brugada were murdered in an attack on Tuesday morning: her personal secretary Ximena Guzman and her adviser Jose ...

NEW YORK, May 20 (Xinhua) -- A mysterious and highly active undersea volcano off the Pacific Coast could erupt by the end of this year -- nearly a mile deep and about 700 miles northwest of San ...

THE HAGUE, May 20 (Xinhua) -- The Dutch government is alarmed by Microsoft's controversial move of blocking the email account of Karim Khan, chief prosecutor of The Hague-headquarted International Cri ...

BRUSSELS, May 20 (Xinhua) -- Public services across Belgium ground to a halt on Tuesday as unions launched a 24-hour general strike to protest government austerity policies, causing widespread ...

BRUSSELS, May 20 (Xinhua) -- The European Union (EU) agreed on Tuesday to lift its economic sanctions on Syria, following a meeting of the bloc's foreign ministers, EU High Representative for Foreign ...

GENEVA, May 20 (Xinhua) -- A spokesperson for the Chinese Mission to the United Nations Office at Geneva on Tuesday urged the United States to end its politicization of COVID-19 origins tracing and ...

RUBAYA, DR Congo, May 20 (Xinhua) -- In the mist-veiled highlands of Masisi territory, a silent war for control over one of the world's most strategic minerals is raging. Rubaya, a remote town in the ...

BAGHDAD, May 20 (Xinhua) -- The Iraqi Oil Ministry on Tuesday rejected recent energy contracts signed between Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and U.S. companies, calling them a clear ...

OTTAWA, May 20 (Xinhua) -- Canada's Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 1.7 percent year over year in April, down from a 2.3 percent increase in March, Statistics Canada said on Tuesday. The slowdown in ...