JAKARTA -- At least 41 people were killed and about 80 others injured as fire broke out at a prison in Tangerang town near the Indonesian capital Jakarta early Wednesday, officials said. All the injured people were taken to nearby hospitals and healt...

There is some damageA magnitude 7.4 earthquake shook Mexico. Its epicenter was 37 km northwest of San Marcos and 14 km southeast of Acapulco, Guerrero, according to the US Geophysical Institute (USGS).Buildings in Mexico City swayed in the middle of ...

Mexico City [Mexico], September 8 (ANI): An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 hit Los Organos de San Agustin, Mexico, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said on Wednesday. "Notable quake, preliminary info: M 7.0 - 4 km ENE of Los Organos de San Agustin...

MEXICO CITY, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- Floods killed 17 patients in a hospital following heavy rains in Tula, a city in the central Mexican state of Hidalgo, authorities said Tuesday. Rains starting on Monday afternoon in Hidalgo caused the area's Tula Riv...

BEIJING, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) -- The following are the central parity rates of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, against 24 major currencies announced on Wednesday by the China Foreign Exchange Trade System: Currency Unit Central parity rate in...

© Provided by Xinhua "The U.S. governance system is losing the global battle for soft power-hegemony against China," and both the Republicans and Democrats are bracing for a major struggle in Congress for the 2022 midterms, said a German political o...

BEIJING, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- The following are the central parity rates of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, against 24 major currencies announced on Tuesday by the China Foreign Exchange Trade System: Currency Unit Central parity rate in y...

HUIXTLA, MEXICO - Mexican border agents and police broke up a caravan of hundreds of migrants Sunday who had set out from southernmost Mexico - the fourth such caravan officials have raided in recent days.The group of about 800 - largely Central Amer...

WASHINGTON - Divers at the site of an ongoing oil spill that appeared in the Gulf of Mexico after Hurricane Ida have identified the apparent source as one-foot diameter pipeline displaced from a trench on the ocean floor and broken open.Talos Energy,...