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KINSHASA, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) — Around 940,000 people have been displaced this year in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said on Tuesday. That has brought the total number of internally…

JDEIDAT YABOUS, Syria (Xinhua) — Nearly 17,700 people, including more than 13,800 Syrians and 3,800 Lebanese, crossed the Jdeidat Yabous border into the Damascus countryside of Syria on Wednesday, according to Alaa Al-Sheikh, a member of the Executive Office for…

UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) — A Chinese envoy on Wednesday urged the UN Security Council to make more efforts to push conflicting parties in Sudan towards a political solution. “At this moment, the Council should channel more of its…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — One of the handful of F-16 warplanes that Ukraine has received from its Western partners to help fight Russia’s invasion has crashed, Ukraine’s Army General Staff said Thursday. The pilot died. The fighter jet went down…

ULAN BATOR, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) — The World Women’s Forum themed “Towards a Green Future” kicked off here on Thursday, focusing on women’s empowerment, gender equality, climate change, and the effective implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Under the…