The charity donation ceremony themed "Under the Same Blue Sky, Building Human Love Together" and the celebration marking the seventh anniversary of the Chinese-funded Rehabilitation and Development Center for Children with Disabilities in Mongolia were held here on Monday.

A private plane carrying six foreign nationals crashed in the southern Philippines on Tuesday, local media reported.Rescue operations are underway.

Afghanistan's first modern aluminum wheel manufacturing plant has commenced production in the industrial park of western Herat province, the official Bakhtar News Agency reported late Monday.Established with an investment of 9 million U.S. dollars, the facility is the country's first modern plant

The unprecedented frequency of coral bleaching events has changed species composition on the Great Barrier Reef and shifted how the reefs respond to climate extremes, according to Australian research.The study found that five mass bleaching events between 2016 and 2024 had transformed coral

Search and rescue operations were underway on Tuesday after an aircraft carrying six foreign nationals crashed into a cliff on Mindanao Island in the southern Philippines, local media reported.The retrieval work was continuing at the site, said Philip June Caminade, an official of a local disaster

UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) -- UN humanitarians and partners worked hard to respond to devastating rains over the weekend in Gaza, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said Monday.The heavy rains, which began on Friday evening, exposed the fragility of shelters, triggered widespread flooding, damaged humanitarian facilities and learning spaces, and disrupted essential services, said OCHA.An infant reportedly drowned in the flooding. Three children and two women were killed when a sandy hill collapsed onto their tents. Thousands of families have lost their shelters and belongings, said the office, citing reports from partners.Humanitarian partners mobilized immediately to assess people's needs, distribute emergency supplies and otherwise support those affected, OCHA said. Nevertheless, humanitarian stocks of tents, tarpaulins, blankets and clothes inside Gaza are virtually exhausted.The world body and its partners pumped out water, improved drainage, reinforced displacement sites with sandbags, repaired shelters where possible, and delivered emergency supplies to affected families, said the office. But our teams are working with far too little equipment and too few shelter materials for the scale of the need.OCHA said that humanitarian funding and Israeli approvals are urgently needed so that enough supplies and machinery can be brought into Gaza, including vacuum trucks, mobile dewatering pumps, engine oil, hoses and heavy machinery.More than 150,000 tents purchased by humanitarian partners and UN member states were outside Gaza ready for dispatch, it noted.The UN humanitarian coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territory, Ramiz Alakbarov, said Monday in Ramallah that while rain is natural, people's vulnerability is man-made.He said hostilities have devastated homes and essential infrastructure, and tight Israeli restrictions have limited preparations and access to areas away from the flood-prone shoreline. Most people a...

QUITO, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) -- Ecuador's National Assembly on Monday approved an anti-mafia bill introducing legal reforms to strengthen the fight against organized crime, toughen penalties and target the financing sources of criminal organizations.Proposed by National Assembly President Mishel Mancheno, the bill amends the Comprehensive Organic Criminal Code, drug legislation, the Organic Law on Asset Forfeiture and the Organic Code of the Judiciary.Mancheno highlighted the legislation as a tool to comprehensively combat organized crime, strengthen the state's response and restore peace of mind to Ecuadorian families.Among its main provisions, the bill establishes an exceptional system of cumulative sentences for three or more separate intentional crimes, allowing prison terms of up to 60 years.It also introduces new offenses related to the recruitment of individuals, forced internal displacement and the confinement of communities through violence or threats.The bill offers leniency for cooperation with authorities, conditioned on the provision of verifiable information and concrete results in identifying perpetrators and dismantling criminal organizations. Such benefits, however, do not apply to crimes against life or the sexual and reproductive integrity of children and adolescents.The reform toughens penalties for illegal activities involving hydrocarbons, strengthens controls on synthetic drugs and chemical precursors, and introduces mechanisms to protect the identities of judges handling organized crime cases.Lawyers and accountants who intentionally facilitate or conceal crimes would also face professional disqualification, subject to a final and binding court ruling.The bill also calls for strengthened efforts to recover, safeguard, preserve and manage illicit assets.The bill will be sent to President Daniel Noboa in line with the corresponding constitutional procedures.

Flash: U.S. aircraft evacuated from second British base due to Iran threat -- media

BOGOTA, Nov. 10 (Xinhua) -- Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella said Monday that he had ordered an airstrike against dissident factions of the disbanded Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in the northeastern Catatumbo region, leaving four members of the armed group dead and six others captured.In a decisive military operation that I authorized in a rural area of Tibu, Norte de Santander (department), our National Army and Colombian Air Force struck this criminal organization, which seeks to sow terror and exert control over Catatumbo through fire and bloodshed, the president posted on social media platform X.According to De la Espriella, the operation, code-named Noah, was carried out in the border region near Venezuela and resulted in the capture of a rebel leader known by the alias Barba Chivo.The detainee is a close associate of Andrey Avendano, the top commander of Structure 33, one of the FARC dissident groups operating in the municipality of Tibu.During Operation Noah, we also seized seven rifles and 15 drone-dropped grenades, and neutralized three encampments capable of accommodating approximately 35 members of this criminal organization, he said.The president said the military offensive against FARC dissidents would continue until their top leaders were captured and brought to justice for attacks carried out by the group.Since taking office on Aug. 7, De la Espriella has ordered seven bombing raids against various armed criminal and rebel groups in Catatumbo and other regions, including Guaviare and Choco.The targets have included the two main FARC dissident factions, the National Liberation Army and the Clan del Golfo criminal group.

The Philippine economy expanded 2.1 percent in the third quarter of 2026, easing from 2.4 percent in the preceding quarter, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said on Monday.The latest figure marks the fifth straight quarter of deceleration for the Philippine economy, with government

At least three contract workers were killed after inhaling toxic gas while cleaning a wastewater storage tank at the Tata Electronics iPhone parts plant in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, police said Tuesday.The workers died of suspected asphyxiation on Monday evening inside a

Three workers died from asphyxiation on Monday evening while cleaning an effluent treatment plant inside the Tata Electronics Private Limited premises in Krishnagiri district, India, local media reported on Tuesday.

Chinese Vice President Han Zheng on Monday attended the China-Türkiye Green Development Business Forum in Istanbul together with Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz, calling for deeper cooperation between the two countries in green development and trade.