Co-hosted by the China Foundation for Human Rights Development and Germany's Friedrich Ebert Foundation, the "2025 China-Germany Human Rights Development Forum" was held in Beijing on Thursday.

Heavy rain and cold weather across the Gaza Strip on Thursday have caused flooding and worsened an already dire humanitarian situation for Palestinians, killing at least two people, including an eight-month-old girl.

Mountains are vital sources of freshwater, supporting ecosystems and communities from high-altitude regions to densely populated downstream areas.

The China-Europe freight rail routes are emerging as an important driver of the development of Central Asian countries, a Kyrgyz market expert has said.

Ukraine has presented the U.S. with a revised 20-point framework to end its conflict with Russia, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Thursday, adding that the issue of ceding territory remains a major sticking point in negotiations.

Japanese media have exposed further irregularities in the financial flows of organizations associated with Prime Minister and ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) President Sanae Takaichi, on top of a recent complaint over an excess political donation to a local LDP chapter led by her.

The UN80 Initiative must address the concerns of developing countries, which make up two-thirds of UN membership, according to a statement delivered by Fu Cong, China's permanent representative to the United Nations, on Thursday.

The Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crime Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army on Thursday released a 38-minute video of a former member of Unit 731, a notorious Japanese germ-warfare unit during World War II (WWII).

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on Thursday that the Nanjing Massacre, which occurred on December 13, 1937, claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians in Nanjing and remains a stark symbol of the brutality of Japanese militarism and crimes against

Japan's weather agency issued a tsunami advisory for northern Japan's Pacific coast after a magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck off Aomori Prefecture on Friday.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday criticized U.S. President Donald Trump for advocating a "law of the strongest" in international politics after a recent phone call between the two leaders on regional tensions.

China proposed openness, innovation and cooperation as the three priorities for the APEC "China Year," and "Building an Asia-Pacific Community to Prosper Together" as its theme at the APEC Informal Senior Officials' Meeting (ISOM) on Friday.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday said China is ready to work with Brunei to maintain high-level exchanges, enhance strategic communication, deepen mutually beneficial cooperation and strengthen multilateral collaboration to further promote the building of a China-Brunei community with a

Tens of thousands of people were under evacuation orders Thursday in western North America, after days of heavy rain forced rivers to burst their banks.

Türkiye has introduced its strictest regulations yet for electric scooters, mandating real-time tracking and giving local authorities greater oversight in an effort to curb rising injuries and fatalities in major cities.