SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's transport ministry announced Sunday the retrieval of a flight recorder, one of the two black boxes of the passenger aircraft which crashed earlier in the day.

ZAGREB, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- Voting for the Croatian presidential election began at 7 a.m. (0600 GMT) on Sunday, with over 3.7 million eligible voters across the country set to vote for a new president ...

MOSCOW, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- Russia is open to negotiations to resolve the Ukraine conflict, but such talks must address its "root causes" and reflect realities on the ground, Russian Foreign Minister ...

KABUL, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- Afghanistan will receive over 9.4 million U.S. dollars in aid from leading aid agencies for thousands of displaced people and returnees in the country, the caretaker ...

SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- A key meeting of the ruling party of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has appointed Pak Thae Song as the country's new premier, the official Korean Central ...

SYDNEY, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- One person died and another was seriously injured in a light plane crash north of Sydney on Sunday, police said. Emergency services, including police, ambulance crews and a ...

CANBERRA, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced emergency disaster payments for people affected by a major bushfire in the country's southeast. Albanese on ...

On Sept. 29, China held a ceremony to confer national medals and national honorary titles. On Sept. 30, China's Martyrs' Day, a ceremony was held in central Beijing to present flower baskets to fallen ...

BEIJING, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- The box office sales of China's moviegoing season ringing in the New Year have seen rapid growth, with earnings on Saturday surpassing 228 million yuan (about 31.71 ...

BEIJING, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- A prototype of the CR450 bullet train that will run at 400 kilometers per hour debuted in ...

COLOMBO, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- In the sweltering heartland of Sri Lanka, where sunshine, heat, and abundant water conspire to create a tropical paradise, a seed sown often bursts into life with ...

MOSCOW, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- Russian energy giant Gazprom said on Saturday that it will cease gas supplies to Moldova starting Jan. 1 due to unpaid debt by Moldova's national gas company, Moldovagaz.