BEIJING (AP)- The Bank of China has pledged at least 10 billion yuan ($1.5 billion) to create a massive giant panda conservation park in southwestern Sichuan province. China's forestry ministry announced Thursday an agreement between the bank and the provincial government to finance the...

Britain and Saudi Arabia will monitor shipping lanes in preparation for opening Yemeni ports, the British foreign minister said on Wednesday after meeting his Saudi counterpart in Yemen, according to Saudi-run Al Arabiya television. Boris Johnson also said London would seek a United...

TEHRAN: A woman who publicly removed her veil in protest against Iran's compulsory headscarf law has been sentenced to 24 months in prison, three months without parole, the judiciary said Wednesday. Tehran's chief prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, who announced the sentence, did not...

A car bomb attack killed 11 people and injured more than 10 others in Jarablus, a border zone that Turkish forces and Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) took from Daesh in 2016. The suspected PKK-affiliated People's Protection Units (YPG) terrorists detonated a car bomb near a police...