ROME, June 11 (Xinhua) — A two-day environmental summit of the Group of Seven (G7) industrialized nations plus the European Union and four invited countries kicked off in the Italian city of Bologna on Sunday. The agenda set by host and G7 president Italy includes the fight against global warming and climate change, in spite […]

DAMASCUS, June 11 (Xinhua) — The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) captured on Sunday their third neighborhood in the Islamic State (IS) group’s de facto capital of Raqqa, less than a week since they started operation to liberate the city from IS, activists reported. The SDF captured the Romaniyeh neighborhood in northwestern Raqqa, the latest […]

ISLAMABAD, June 11 (Xinhua) — At least two policemen were killed and two others injured in a firing by unknown gunmen in Pakistan’s southwest Quetta city on Sunday, local Urdu media reported. Some unknown gunmen opened fire at a police check post in Sariab area of Quetta, the capital city of the country’s southwest Balochistan […]

PYONGYANG, June 10 (Xinhua) — The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Saturday condemned the secret delivery of four extra launchers of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system in South Korea last month. A spokesman of the Pan-Korean Emergency Measure Committee for Opposing Nuclear War Drills against DPRK said the South Korean […]

DAMASCUS, June 10 (Xinhua) — The general command of the Syrian army said in a statement on Saturday that reaching the Syrian-Iraqi borders constitutes a “turning point” in the war on terror. It said the Syrian forces and allied troops have completed the first stage of the military operation in the Syrian Desert, by reaching […]

LONDON, June 10 (Xinhua) — British Prime Minister Theresa May’s two co-chiefs of staff quit Saturday as the fallout from the Conservative’s poor showing in this week’s general election continued. Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill who had been the main architects of May’s disastrous election campaign announced within minutes of each other that they were […]

LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, June 10 (Xinhua) — At least three Afghan Border Police (ABP) personnel were killed and two others wounded after a U.S.-led air raid struck their position in southern Helmand province overnight, a local official said on Saturday. “The incident occurred in surrounding areas of Nad Ali district, west of provincial capital Lashkar […]

BAGHDAD, June 9 (Xinhua) — The Iraqi government on Friday criticized announcement by the Kurdish regional government to set a date to hold a referendum on independence in the autonomous region of Kurdistan and the disputed areas. The government’s first critic came two days after Masoud Barzani, the president of the Kurdish region, announced the […]