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YANGON, April 27 (Xinhua) -- A fire broke out at a market in Danubyu township, Ayeyarwady region, destroying 271 shops, an official from the Danubyu Township Fire Services Department told...

HELSINKI, April 27 (Xinhua) -- Global military expenditure rose to a record 2.89 trillion U.S. dollars in 2025, marking the 11th consecutive year of growth, according to a report released...

   by Xinhua writer Yang Shilong   NEW YORK, April 27 (Xinhua) -- Michael Luo, executive editor of The New Yorker, steps from behind the editor's desk to revisit a long-overlooked...

MOSCOW, April 27 (Xinhua) -- Moscow was hit by an unusually heavy late-April snowstorm on Monday, breaking multiple weather records and causing widespread disruptions across the Russian capital and its...

KABUL, April 27 (Xinhua) -- Three commuters lost their lives and four others sustained injuries as a car veered off the road in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan on Monday, the...

Flash: Putin has received message from Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei last week -- media

MANILA, April 27 (Xinhua) -- Construction workers alerted police and airport authorities after uncovering several old, corroded bomb items during excavation at the Juliet Extension Taxiway within the Ninoy Aquino...

MOSCOW, April 27 (Xinhua) -- The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned German Ambassador to Russia Alexander Lambsdorff on Monday over a recent meeting in Kiev between a German lawmaker and the...

KABUL, April 27 (Xinhua) -- In a decisive step toward bridging educational disparities in one of Afghanistan's most remote highland regions, Minister of Education Mawlawi Habibullah Agha formally launched an...

LONDON, April 27 (Xinhua) -- British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will face a vote to decide whether he will be investigated over claims he misled the parliament regarding Peter Mandelson,former...