RAMALLAH/JERUSALEM, May 17 (Xinhua) -- The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) attacked a target in the Palestinian city of Jenin in the northern West Bank Friday night, killing at least one and injuring ...

HOUSTON, May 17 (Xinhua) -- The death toll of powerful storms ripping through Houston on Thursday night has risen to five as the largest city in the U.S. state of Texas is entering a "recovery mode" ...

Eight of the 11 primary S&P 500 sectors ended in green, with energy and materials leading the gainers by going up 1.37 percent and 0.85 percent, respectively. Meanwhile, technology and consumer ...

Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the DPRK, oversaw the test fire and expressed his satisfaction over the military strategic value as ...

JERUSALEM, May 17 (Xinhua) -- The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Friday said it killed Sharhabil Ali al-Sayed, a senior commander in the Lebanese Islamic Group, or Jamaa Islamiya, in an airstrike on ...

BAGHDAD, May 17 (Xinhua) -- Iraqi security forces arrested two senior members of the Islamic State (IS) group in the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan and the Iraqi capital Baghdad, Iraqi security ...

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) conducted a test fire of tactical ballistic missile using a new autonomous navigation system in its eastern waters on Friday, the official Korean ...

JERUSALEM, May 17 (Xinhua) -- The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Friday night that it attacked a target in the Palestinian city of Jenin in the northern West Bank, killing "at least two ...

RAMALLAH, May 17 (Xinhua) -- At least one person was killed and eight others injured in an Israeli airstrike on the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on Friday night, medical sources told ...

At the opening, the two orchestras brought to life works by Georges Bizet, an adaptation of Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana," Tchaikovsky, and Alexander Borodin's "Polovtsian Dances," all in a harmonious ...

NEW YORK, May 17 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.4 jolted Kermadec Islands, New Zealand, at 20:58:21 GMT on Friday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, ...

NEW YORK, May 17 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 jolted Kermadec Islands, New Zealand, at 20:58:26 GMT on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of ...