Decorated elephants participate in a procession celebrating the Esala Perahera festival in Kandy, Sri Lanka, Aug. 4, 2025.

Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in Yangzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province, Aug. 5, 2025. The main tower of the bridge witnessed ...

Rescuers open a manhole to drain water on a flooded road in Duanzhou District of Zhaoqing City, south China's Guangdong ...

Shi Renhua looks for files at the 9.18 Historical Museum in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province, July 28, 2025. Shi ...

DHAKA, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Bangladeshi interim government's Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus on Tuesday said he would write to the Election Commission to organize the general election in February 2026, ...

CAIRO, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said on Tuesday that the ongoing Israeli war on the Gaza Strip "has exceeded any logic or justification," adding that it has become "a ...

LJUBLJANA, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Slovenia's registered unemployment fell by 1.3 percent year-on-year in July, even as the monthly figure rose temporarily due to seasonal factors, the country's Employment ...

A powerful earthquake that struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula last Wednesday caused the southern part of the region to shift nearly two meters southeast, local authorities said Tuesday.

OSLO, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Norway, Sweden and Denmark have unveiled a joint military support package for Ukraine, aimed at securing urgently needed U.S.-made defense equipment through an initiative ...

WINDHOEK, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Namibia is considering a new policy that would require 51 percent Namibian ownership in all new mining ventures, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industries, Mines ...

COLOMBO, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Over 130,000 vehicles were registered in Sri Lanka during the first seven months of 2025, said the Department of Motor Traffic on Tuesday. Commissioner General of the ...

BEIRUT, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- The Israeli army has begun fortifying five key military positions it continues to occupy along the southern Lebanon border, according to a Lebanese security source and ...