Photo: Xinhua US President Donald Trump paid a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Thursday evening, meeting with his Afghan counterpart Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and spending Thanksgiving with US troops stationed in the country. It was Trump’s first trip to the war-torn country since becoming president. “In our bilateral meeting, we discussed the important progress we …
Image taken on July 19, 2017 shows finished photovoltaic panels at the Ernesto Che Guevara Electronic Components plant, in the province of Pinar del Rio, Cuba. (Xinhua/Joaquin Hernandez) Cuba hopes to generate a quarter of its energy needs from renewable sources over the next decade, an industry official said on Thursday. The government’s Renewable Energy …
People take part in a protest in Baghdad, Iraq, on Oct. 29, 2019. (Xinhua/Khalil Dawood) The Iraqi Independent High Commission for Human Rights (IHCHR) said on Thursday that a total of 31 demonstrators were killed and more than 1,000 others wounded during the past three days of anti-government protests in capital Baghdad and southern provinces. …
A Russian Tu-160 bomber flies past during the Belarus Independence Day military parade in Minsk, Belarus, July 3, 2019. (Xinhua/Wei Zhongjie Russia has finished assembling its first modernized Tu-160M strategic bomber and will test it soon, local media reported on Thursday. The first deeply modernized Tu-160M strategic missile-carrying bomber was transferred from production workshops to …
A protester is seen during a protest at Tahrir square in Baghdad, Iraq, on Oct. 29, 2019. (Xinhua/Khalil Dawood) Iraqi security forces cracked down on anti-government protesters in the strife-torn south on Thursday, leaving 22 people dead in a bloody escalation hours after the torching of an Iranian consulate. Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdel …
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg speaks during the wrapping-up press conference of a two-day NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) defense ministers’ meeting at the NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, Oct. 25, 2019. (Xinhua/Zheng Huansong) The US is to cut its contribution to NATO’s operating budget, officials said on Thursday, with Germany increasing payments as …
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attended the testing of a “super-large multiple rocket launcher” at an undisclosed location in North Korea on September 10, 2019. Photo: IC North Korea fired two “unidentified projectiles” on Thursday – the Thanksgiving holiday in the US – Seoul said, as nuclear talks between Pyongyang and Washington remain deadlocked. …
In this handout image provided by ITV, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (L) and British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn shake hands during their election head-to-head debate live on ITV in Salford, Britain, Nov. 19, 2019. Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn faced a national audience on Tuesday night in the first ever televised head-to-head clash …
Rescuers work at the site of a collapsed building in the town of Durres, Albania, on Nov. 27, 2019. Some 40 hours after a strong earthquake hit Albania, 48 people have been rescued, as searches for more survivors are racing against time on Wednesday. The earthquake that hit the Balkan country early Tuesday morning has …
Family members carry the coffin bearing the remains of Hoang Van Tiep from his home to a church for a funeral service in Dien Chau district, Nghe An province, Vietnam on Thursday. Photo: AFP Throngs of weeping relatives on Thursday buried the first of 39 Vietnamese people found dead in a truck in Britain last …