UN Security Council holds meeting on threat posed by Islamic State

Four commuters were killed and another was injured due to head-on collision in the northern Balkh province of Afghanistan on Wednesday night, said a statement of provincial police office on Thursday.The deadly accident took place on a road linking the provincial capital Mazar-i-Sharif to the border

Cuba hits freezing point for first time on record

A firefighter in Chengdu, Sichuan Province rescued a boy who was left suspended mid-air after a hot air balloon ride at a shopping mall malfunctioned. Carrying out a rapid rope rescue to descend from above, the first responder used one arm to secure the child – who was hanging from the deflated balloon – before lowering him safely to the ground and drawing applause from onlookers at the scene. The boy was not injured. The amusement ride has since been suspended for safety checks. (Produced by interns Li Linmo and Tang Kexin)

Recently, Japan has groundlessly labeled China's lawful measures to strengthen export controls on dual-use items to Japan—measures taken to safeguard national security interests—as "economic coercion."This blatant distortion of the facts only reveals Japan's obstinate refusal to reflect on its own

The Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games promises to be an experiment which will present logistical challenges for organizers.

Chinese Spring Festival decorations seen in New York stores

Myanmar's police have destroyed about 311 acres of opium poppy fields in Shan state, state-owned daily Myanma Alinn reported on Thursday.The eradication operation was carried out in cooperation with local authorities across several townships in the state, the report said.

Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) on Wednesday unveiled a new underground missile base amid tensions with the United States, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.