QUITO, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- Seven people were killed in a shooting that occurred in the northwestern Ecuadorian province of Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas on Sunday morning, said local media.

CAIRO, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly and his Palestinian counterpart Mohammad Mustafa discussed on Sunday the latest developments in the Palestinian territories.

Tourism and Antiquities Minister Makram Al-Qaisi said on Sunday that the 2025/26 winter season will feature the largest network of low-cost flights to date, connecting Jordan with 18 European ...

COTONOU, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- A bus carrying 54 people plunged into a river in central Benin early Sunday, leaving one dead and 44 missing, the country's Ministry of the Interior and Public Security ...

The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) illegally directed its flight attendant members to defy a direction from the Canadian Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) to return to work, said Canada's ...

BEIRUT, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- The Lebanese army on Sunday said it thwarted an infiltration attempt by armed men crossing from Syria into eastern Lebanon, the state-run National News Agency (NNA) ...

SANAA, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- Yemen's Houthi group said on Sunday it had launched a hypersonic ballistic missile at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv in retaliation for an Israeli strike on a power ...

JERUSALEM, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- Tens of thousands of Israelis demonstrated on Sunday, demanding that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secure a deal with Hamas to end the Gaza war and release the ...

DAMASCUS, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- A man was killed on Sunday when an explosive belt he was wearing detonated in Aleppo's al-Maysar district, the official SANA news agency said, citing a source in the city ...

South African journalists condemned what they described as Israel's systematic targeting of Palestinian journalists for exposing war crimes and acts of genocide. JAA denounced the "media massacre" in ...

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- Australia won the 2025 FIBA Asia Cup after beating China 90-89 in the final on Sunday. Australia has never lost a game since joining the Asia Cup in 2017.

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- Australia beat China 90-89 to win the FIBA Asia Cup here on Sunday. Enditem ...