NAIROBI, April 26 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from heavy rains and flash flooding in Kenya has risen to 70, a government official said Friday.

JOHANNESBURG, April 26 (Xinhua) -- South Africa's Water and Sanitation Department said Friday that the water tunnels of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project will be shut down from Oct. 1, 2024 to March ...

LUSAKA, April 26 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations (UN) on Friday announced an allocation of about 5.5 million U.S. dollars to support Zambia's response to an unprecedented drought that has affected some ...

NEW DELHI, April 26 (Xinhua) -- Local government in India's northeastern state of Mizoram has sounded a high alert following the outbreak of the African swine fever (ASF), officials said Friday. The ...

ULAN BATOR, April 26 (Xinhua) -- Mongolia on Friday launched a national program to mitigate the negative impacts of climate change on nomadic livestock husbandry, the government's press office said in ...

BERLIN, April 26 (Xinhua) -- Renewable energies covered around 56 percent of electricity consumption in Germany in the first quarter of 2024, according to preliminary calculations from energy ...

HONG KONG -- The sixth session of the Hong Kong/Shanghai Cooperation Conference was held here Friday, where 20 cooperation documents were signed in legal services, trade, finance, science and ...

China supports all Palestinian factions in achieving reconciliation and increasing solidarity through dialogue and consultation, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said on Friday. Wang ...

ISTANBUL, April 26 (Xinhua) -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on the world countries on Friday to amplify their voices against the crime in the Gaza Strip.

The tourism office of the Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) government noted that this year's MITE expanded from two exhibition halls in the previous session to three, totaling 30,000 square ...

MOSCOW, April 26 (Xinhua) -- Russia's GDP growth forecast for 2024 has been revised from 1-2 percent to 2.5-3.5 percent, the central bank said Friday in a statement.

SEOUL, April 26 (Xinhua) -- Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), visited a military institute and oversaw the test-firing of a newly-produced multiple rocket ...