GUANGZHOU, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) — Over 17 people were killed in a fire in south China’s Guangdong Province, local authorities said on Friday. The fire broke out at about 1:51 p.m. on Thursday in a warehouse on the fourth floor of a small merchandise wholesale market in Huidong County. It had been put under control […]

MOSCOW, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) — Russia warned on Thursday that possible U.S. weapons supplies to Ukraine would not only escalate the conflict in the country, but also threaten Russia’s security. “We are very seriously concerned by these plans. Taking into account the retaliatory plans of Kiev’s ‘party of war’, this could not only escalate the […]

COLOMBO, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) — Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Wednesday pledged to continue strong ties with China. In a message to mark the Chinese New Year, President Sirisena noted the importance of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Sri Lanka last September and affirmed that ties between Sri Lanka and China will continue […]

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) — The White House was cautious on Wednesday in its comments on the Jordanian government’s retaliatory execution of two Iraqi extremists after the Islamic State (IS) released a video purporting to show IS burning alive a Jordanian pilot hostage. “These were individuals who were sentenced to death and were serving time […]

BEIJING, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered obtaining accurate information on the TransAsia Airways airplane that crashed into a Taipei river on Wednesday as quickly as possible and providing assistance in treating the injured people. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of […]