13 people were injured in an explosion at a nightclub in the Colombian department of Cordoba, according to Blu Radio, Sputnik reported. According to the radio station, attackers threw an explosive device into the El Rancho de Jhon club in the city of Montelibano ...

New Jersey has become the first state in the nation to bar circuses, carnivals and fairs from featuring elephants, tigers and other exotic animals, according to USA Today. Gov. Phil Murphy signed a bill Friday authorizing the statewide ban, similar versions of ...

Turkish military “neutralized” 10 PKK terrorists in airstrikes carried out in northern Iraq, the Turkish Defense Ministry said on Sunday, Anadolu Agency reported. Turkish authorities often use the word "neutralized" in their statements to imply the terrorists in question either surrendered ...

A 5.7-magnitude earthquake jolted the county of Xingwen in Yibin City, Sichuan Province at 12:46 p.m. Sunday (Beijing Time), according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC), Xinhua reported. The epicenter was monitored at 28.24 degrees north latitude and 104.95 degrees ...

Boeing Zhoushan 737 Completion and Delivery Center in east China's Zhejiang Province delivered its first plane of the 737 family to Air China on Saturday, Xinhua reported. The delivery marked the U.S. aerospace giant and its Chinese partner Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, Ltd (COMAC) ...

Sri Lanka's disputed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has stepped down from his post, signalling an end to a weeks-long political crisis that has kept the Indian Ocean nation without a functional government, according to Al Jazeera ...

On the eve of a possible Turkish counter-terrorism operation in Syria, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump on Friday agreed on the need for more effective coordination over Syria, said an official statement, Anadolu Agency reported ...

Turkish warplanes neutralized eight PKK terrorists in northern Iraq on Friday, the military said, according to Anadolu Agency. Turkish authorities often use the word "neutralized" in their statements to imply the terrorists in question either surrendered or were killed or captured ...

South and North Korea agreed Thursday to hold a groundbreaking ceremony later this month for their project to modernize North Korean railways and roads and connect them to the South, the unification ministry said, according to Yonhap News Agency ...

Samsung Electronics will cease operations at one of its mobile phone manufacturing plants in China, the company said, as its sales in the world's biggest smartphone market slumps amid rising competition from lower-cost local rivals, Reuters reported. The South Korean company has seen its share ...

At least seven people were killed and 46 injured when a high-speed train crashed into a pilot engine traveling along the same rails, said officials in Turkey's capital Ankara, Anadolu Agency reports ...

Turkey will launch an operation in the east of Euphrates, Syria in a few days to save it from separatistterrorist organization, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday, Anadolu Agency reports. "We expressed that we will launch an operation in east of Euphrates ...

China has reportedly detained a Canadian senior advisor for an international NGO, who was a previously a diplomat in Hong Kong and the mainland, according to Hong Kong Free Press ...

China aims to add 216 new airports by 2035 and develop some regional transport hubs, China Daily quoted the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) as saying on Tuesday. As of the end of October, China had 234 civil airports and is ...

A heavy snowstorm has swept through US south-eastern states, killing at least three people and leaving hundreds of thousands without power, according to BBC. A state of emergency has been declared in North Carolina, with some areas reporting ...

"I can't breathe" were the final words of a Washington Post columnist who was killed at the hands of Saudi agents in Riyadh's Istanbul consulate, according to a report released Sunday, Anadolu Agency reported. CNN reported Jamal Khashoggi's final words citing a source who was briefed ...

Four people were killed and 11 injured on Monday after a minibus mowed down pedestrians in China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), said Information Services Department of the HKSAR government, Xinhua reported. The department said that according ...

An Afghan official says the Taliban have attacked an army checkpoint in the western Farah province, killing at least eight Afghan soldiers, according to AP. Abdul Samad Salehi, a provincial council member, says the insurgents abducted another ...

More than 1,700 people were arrested across France during the latest "yellow vest" protests as demonstrators clashing with riot police caused more damage in Paris than a week ago, officials said on Sunday, according to AFP ...