U.S. President Donald Trump will serve as chairman. The board members include U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff, Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, and former ...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 83.11 points, or 0.17 percent, to 49,359.33. The S&P 500 slipped 4.46 points, or 0.06 percent, to 6,940.01, and the Nasdaq Composite Index lost 14.63 points, ...

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- The United States has recorded at least 18 million influenza illnesses, 230,000 hospitalizations and 9,300 deaths so far during the current flu season, according to ...

UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- There continues to be a need for the Lebanese armed forces to get more resources and financial support to strengthen its capacities to secure the country's southern ...

According to Shaath, the 15-member committee, with a priority on Gaza's "humanitarian file," held its first meeting in Cairo on Friday. The committee arrived on Thursday, delayed by a day due to ...

KIEV, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- Ukrainian and U.S. teams will hold another round of negotiations on Jan. 17 in Miami, Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.S. Olga Stefanishyna announced on Friday.

DAMASCUS, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Friday that its forces would withdraw from current contact lines with government forces east of Aleppo to advance ...

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- Twelve people were arrested Thursday night during demonstrations over Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations in Minneapolis, the largest city in the U.S.

The People's Bank of China (PBOC), the country's central bank, has renewed a bilateral currency swap agreement with the Bank ...

ISTANBUL, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- A rapid increase in sinkholes is raising environmental and agricultural alarms in drought-stricken Konya province in central Türkiye, driven by severe groundwater ...

MOSCOW, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- Russia's annual inflation rate stood at 5.59 percent by the end of 2025, down from the 9.52 percent recorded in 2024, the country's Ministry of Economic Development ...

DAMASCUS, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- Syrian interim leader Ahmad al-Sharaa on Friday issued a decree affirming the cultural, linguistic and civic rights of Syrian Kurds, as tensions rise between the ...