• UN envoy warns against Yemen being drawn deeper into regional crises
    2025-07-10

    UN Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg on the screen speaks via a video link at a Security Council meeting at the UN headquarters in New York, on July 9, 2025. Loey FelipeUN PhotoHandout via Xinhua UNITED NATIONS, July 9 Xinhua -- UN Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg on Wednesday warned a...

  • Measles cases in the U.S. hit the highest total recorded in more than 30 years
    2025-07-10

    The United States has recorded 1,288 measles cases so far this year, the highest total in 33 years, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data out Wednesday. Just over halfway through 2025, the U.S. has now surpassed 2019's total number of infections, when 1,274 measles cases were...

  • Trump threatens Brazil with massive 50% tariff, citing "Witch Hunt" against ex-president Bolsonaro
    2025-07-10

    President Trump said Wednesday he would impose a 50% tariff on goods from Brazil next month, one of the steepest rates for any U.S. trading partner, citing the criminal prosecution of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, which Mr. Trump called an "international disgrace." Mr. Trump has sent o...

  • Australian scientists advance jadarite processing to fuel clean energy transition
    2025-07-10

    CANBERRA, July 10 Xinhua -- Australian scientists are leading research to harness jadarite, a rare mineral originally discovered in Serbia, as a key resource for the transition to clean energy. Australian scientists are developing advanced methods to extract and process jadarite's lithium and boron...

  • Trump tariffs raise the specter of sharper economic downturn for South Korea and Japan
    2025-07-09

    WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 7: An aide picks up a page from a letter to Japan and South Korea, signed by U.S. President Donald Trump, announcing 25% tariffs beginning on August 1st, during the daily press briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on July 7, 2025 in Washington, DC. And...

  • Funeral home owner accused of stashing decaying bodies expected to plead guilty
    2025-07-09

    A Colorado funeral home owner accused of storing nearly 190 decomposing bodies and defrauding the government is expected to plead guilty DENVER -- A funeral home owner in Colorado accused of storing nearly 190 decomposing bodies in a room-temperature building and defrauding the federal government o...

  • Supreme Court clears way for Trump to move forward with mass layoffs of federal workers
    2025-07-09

    Washington — The Supreme Court on Tuesday lifted a lower court order that blocked sweeping layoffs of federal workers at nearly two dozen agencies while a legal battle over President Trump's plans to drastically cut the size of the government moves forward. The high court's order clears the way for...

  • New Mexico flash flooding kills at least 3, prompts dozens of rescues, sweeps house away
    2025-07-09

    Flash flooding from torrential rain killed at least three people Tuesday afternoon and prompted dozens of rescues in the Ruidoso area of southern New Mexico, officials said — the same area devastated by two wildfires last year. A house was seen being carried downstream by the fast-moving water. Lat...

  • China to contribute more wisdom, technology to global high-speed rail development: vice premier
    2025-07-09

    Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Guoqing, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, addresses the opening ceremony of the 12th World Congress on High-Speed Rail in Beijing, capital of China, July 8, 2025. XinhuaDing Lin BEIJING, July 8 Xinhua -- Chinese Vi...

  • BRICS calls for fairer, balanced economic order
    2025-07-09

    Bloc's push draws fresh interest and support from Latin America: Analysts Leaders attending the plenary session of "Peace and Security and Reform of Global Governance" of the 17th BRICS Summit pose for a group photo in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 6, 2025. [PhotoXinhua] BRICS' push to recalibrat...

  • Australian woman guilty of murdering relatives with poisonous mushrooms in beef Wellington
    2025-07-08

    An Australian court found Erin Patterson guilty on Monday of three counts of murder and one count of attempted murder, after a 10-week trial that captivated Australia and much of the world. Patterson, 50, was charged with murdering three relatives of her estranged husband by serving a beef Wellingt...

  • Documents dating to Japan's bacteriological war in China released in Guangzhou
    2025-07-08

    Color scans of the roster of a Japanese army unit involved in bacteriological warfare in South China during the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression 1931-45 were released on Monday in Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong province. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] Col...

  • Experts sharpen focus on new frontiers of AI
    2025-07-08

    The technology of artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly, prompting the need for continuous improvements in innovative techniques in order to address challenges and seize strategic opportunities in the field, experts said at a recent scientific conference. "Over the past seven to eight years,...

  • Judge blocks Trump from cutting off Planned Parenthood funding under "big, beautiful bill"
    2025-07-08

    A judge on Monday temporarily barred the Trump administration from revoking Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood, partially freezing a provision of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act just days after President Trump signed it into law. The temporary restraining order by U.S. District Judge Indira Tal...

  • Trump dismisses Musk's threats of new political party amid ongoing feud
    2025-07-08

    WASHINGTON, July 7 Xinhua -- U.S. President Donald Trump has dismissed billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's threats to form a third political party. "I'm saddened to watch Elon Musk go completely 'off the rails,' essentially becoming a TRAIN WRECK over the past five weeks," Trump posted on social m...