A fire that broke out at a plastics factory warehouse in Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo, early Monday was still burning more than 24 hours later, according to local media.

Member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will attend the Seventh Summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA) held in Baku, Azerbaijan on October 15 as Special Representative of

In November 2019, during an inspection tour in Shanghai, Chinese President Xi Jinping first put forward the concept that "cities should be built by the people and for the people."

One person has died and several others were injured in an incident involving a Six Flags roller coaster Monday afternoon in Georgia, according to police.

Extreme tropical weather led to two deaths in Mexico and caused widespread damage over the weekend as Hurricane Simon pounded the country's Pacific coast, authorities said Monday.

The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday nudged its 2026 global growth forecast to 3.1 percent, up 0.1 percentage point from its July projection, as economies lifted by the artificial intelligence investment boom offset those hurt by the Middle East conflict.

U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes on Monday ordered a 24-hour halt to tree-cutting at the East Potomac Golf Course, a historic D.C. course that has been part of President Donald Trump’s plans to remake the city.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Monday condemned British Prime Minister Andy Burnham's claim that a suspected plot targeting a British Royal Air Force base was most probably "coordinated in Iran."

For years, the US has been leading the push to sanction Russia and cut off the revenue Moscow needs to fund the war in Ukraine. Europe took that mission seriously. Now, just as Washington needs more diesel, it is turning back to Russian supplies.

A Chinese culture festival was held Monday at Badr University in Cairo to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Egypt, featuring cultural performances, traditional Chinese arts and student exchanges.Lu Chunsheng, minister counselor at the

At least 10 miners were killed and four others seriously injured on Monday after a minibus plunged about 25 meters into a riverbed in Bolivia's western department of La Paz, a local official said.

Former President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Joseph Kabila was named head of a newly formed political-military alliance on Monday, bringing the political and military leaders of the March 23 Movement (M23) rebellion under his leadership.

Yemen's Houthi group said Monday evening that it had launched a new ballistic missile strike on King Khalid International Airport in the Saudi capital Riyadh, while Tehran reiterated its readiness to facilitate dialogue between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Monday that the 2026 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford for "microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilization."

A US humanitarian and educational initiative in Gaza is courting controversy by announcing plans to record classroom conversations and use artificial intelligence to flag speech deemed “hateful” or “inciting.”