Five people were killed in a traffic accident midnight Wednesday after a pickup truck overturned on the Wadi al-Zina road in central Lebanon's Chouf District, the Lebanese Civil Defense said.A Lebanese security source told Xinhua the crash occurred after the vehicle suffered brake failure, causing

Recently, young Chinese mathematicians Wang Hong and Deng Yu had won the Fields Medal; Chinese large models like DeepSeek continue to expand their influence within the global developer ecosystem; and Unitree Robotics keeps driving the deployment of humanoid robots and embodied AI into real-world

South Africa has returned the ancestral remains of 84 Namibians, along with the remains of two political prisoners who died in detention during the apartheid era, in a solemn ceremony held in Cape Town on Wednesday.The coffins, draped in the Namibian flag, were formally handed over to a Namibian

China on Thursday expressed firm opposition to US Section 232 measures, which it believed, amounted to unilateralism and protectionism under the pretext of national security, urging the US to immediately withdraw the relevant Section 232 tariffs targeting imported drones and drone components, a

A woman died and at least two other people were injured as severe storms caused extensive damage overnight across parts of Germany.In Waldorf, in the southwestern state of Rhineland-Palatinate, a woman was struck by a falling tree and fatally injured, the German news agency dpa reported Thursday.

The bodies of two Belgian mountaineers who went missing in the Swiss Alps more than three decades ago have been found, officials said.Police in the southwestern Valais region, which has a database of people listed as missing over the last century, said the retreat of glaciers has led to the

‍‍Forget the long lines at Roman ruins and overpriced gelato -- sweating tourists are enjoying a break from the scorching heat by rafting on the Eternal City's Tiber River.A welcome change from the beaten tourist track, river rafting on the Tiber -- long the lifeblood of the ancient city -- is a

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Thursday that it is necessary to remain highly vigilant against the rhetoric and actions of Japan's right-wing forces that seek to turn back the wheel of history and that the resurgence of Japanese militarism must never be allowed.Wang, also a member of the

The U.S. national debt has surpassed 40 trillion dollars for the first time in history, according to data released by the Treasury Department on Wednesday.The data shows that debt held by the public and intragovernmental holdings stood at 32.266 trillion dollars and 7.782 trillion dollars,

Russia's Pacific Fleet conducted missile strikes against targets near the coast of the Southern Kuril Islands (known as the Northern Territories in Japan) during a planned military exercise, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Thursday.

Editor's note: Xiang Haoyu is a specially appointed research fellow at the Department for Asia-Pacific Studies, China Institute of International Studies.

Tens of thousands of Japanese citizens gathered in front of the National Diet Building in Tokyo on Wednesday evening to protest a series of dangerous moves by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's government, including its distorted view of history and push toward military expansion.

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