Romanian President Nicusor Dan votes during a local election at a polling station in Bucharest, Romania, on Dec. 7, 2025.

"I think Prime Minister (Takaichi)'s comments were essentially aiming at laying the ground for potential Japanese Self-Defense Forces involvement (in a Taiwan Strait contingency), which are extremely ...

HONG KONG, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) -- The results of the election of the eighth-term Legislative Council (LegCo) of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) were unveiled early on Monday.

The results of the election of the eighth-term Legislative Council (LegCo) of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) were unveiled early on Monday. ■ ...

Across Aleppo and parts of Idlib provinces in northern Syria, families who spent years in camps have begun returning to their hometowns only to find them unrecognizable: flattened, emptied, and ...

CAIRO, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) -- The Arab League on Sunday condemned the killing of civilians in Kalogi city, Sudan's South Kordofan state, as war crimes, after a drone strike there earlier this week killed ...

Two Dutch F-35 fighter jets were scrambled on Sunday after an unidentified drone was detected in Dutch airspace, the country's Ministry of Defense said. The drone later left Dutch airspace and posed ...

QUITO, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) -- At least five people were killed Sunday in a traffic accident on a road in the southwestern Ecuadorian province of Guayas, said local media.

GAZA, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) -- A Palestinian girl was killed Sunday by Israeli army fire in the Mawasi area of Rafah in southern Gaza. Ambulance and emergency services said the girl was killed outside ...

BEIJING, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 jolted 109 km north of Yakutat, Alaska, at 1656 GMT on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 2 km, ...

JERUSALEM, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) -- Israeli army chief Eyal Zamir said on Sunday that the "yellow line" demarcation is the "new borderline" inside the Gaza Strip. The "yellow line" marks the zone from which ...

Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein told U.S. Special Envoy for Syria Tom Barrack on Sunday that the Iraqi government is surprised at Barrack's recent statements regarding Iraq's internal situation, ...