NEW YORK, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- Over 500 hospitals have closed their labor and delivery departments since 2010, leaving most U.S. rural hospitals and more than a third of urban hospitals without ...

ISTANBUL, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- Li Xintong's journey with Ebru, the ancient Turkish art of paper marbling, began in 2007 when she moved from the northwestern Chinese city of Xi'an to Istanbul. Captivated ...

GAZA, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- At least 20 Palestinians were killed on Wednesday in an Israeli strike targeting a shelter for displaced people west of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, according to ...

PRAGUE, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- Police search continued after a report of gunshots heard on a university campus in the western Czech city of Pilsen on Wednesday, authorities said.

BARCELONA, Spain, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- Spain's main electric utility company, Iberdrola, plans to build the largest hydroelectric power plant in Western Europe.

HAVANA, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- Cuba's power grid experienced another nationwide outage early Wednesday morning, following a failure at the island's largest power plant, according to the Ministry of Energy ...

BUDAPEST, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- The Hungarian government has requested an exemption from U.S. sanctions on Russia's Gazprombank to allow continued payments for natural gas supplies, Hungarian Minister of ...

The decision to resume the talks follows a meeting on Nov. 6 between Kenyan President William Ruto and South Sudanese President Salva Kiir in Juba, where they directed the mediation team to reconvene ...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday picked his ex-aide Peter Navarro to serve as senior counselor for trade and manufacturing in his next administration.

ZANZIBAR, Tanzania, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- Tanzania's Zanzibar President Hussein Ali Mwinyi announced on Tuesday night that the Zanzibar Archipelago has secured 9 billion Tanzanian shillings (about 3.4 ...

By law, the 300-member unicameral National Assembly is required to cast a secret vote on the impeachment motion within 72 hours after it is proposed. Under the constitution, the impeachment motion ...

In its Tourism Barometer report issued on Wednesday, the Madrid-based organization revealed that a "full recovery" is expected by the end of the year.