CAIRO, May 18 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi on Sunday called for reaching an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and facilitating the flow of humanitarian aid into the war-torn ...

JERUSALEM -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said Sunday that an Israeli negotiation team is engaged in indirect talks in Qatar's capital Doha on a hostage release deal with Hamas, ...

LISBON, May 18 (Xinhua) -- The center-right Democratic Alliance, led by incumbent Prime Minister Luis Montenegro, won the most seats in Portugal's parliamentary elections Sunday, according to official ...

"Reaching an agreement with the United States is achievable. However, making that happen requires a fundamental condition that the American side refrains from the approach of coercion," Pezeshkian ...

JERUSALEM, May 18 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Sunday a decision to lift the blockade on Gaza to allow the entry of limited aid, as international criticism mounts ...

ADEN, Yemen, May 18 (Xinhua) -- A senior military commander affiliated with the Yemeni government forces was killed by gunmen in an ambush on Sunday in the southeastern province of Hadramout, a local ...

According to an exit poll conducted by the AVANGARDE Socio-Behavioral Studies Group, Dan, an independent candidate, secured 54.9 percent of the vote, while Simion, the head of the Alliance for the ...

The Polish president serves a five-year term. Under election law, if no candidate secures more than half of the vote, a runoff is held between the top two contenders. In the 2020 election, incumbent ...

ADEN, Yemen, May 18 (Xinhua) -- Yemen's Houthi group announced Sunday that it would conduct military operations against Ben Gurion Airport and other unspecified Israeli airports within hours, in ...

NEW YORK, May 18 (Xinhua) -- U.S. former President Joe Biden was diagnosed with aggressive form of prostate cancer on Friday, said a statement from his personal office on Sunday. The cancer, ...

BUCHAREST, May 18 (Xinhua) -- Nicusor Dan, the mayor of Bucharest and an independent candidate, has won Romania's presidential runoff election, defeating his rival George Simion, according to ...

TRIPOLI, May 18 (Xinhua) -- The UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) on Sunday announced the establishment of a truce committee jointly with the country's Presidency Council, which serves as the ...