Thousands of Afghans struggling to ensure the physical safety of their families after the Taliban took control of the country have an additional...
Thousands of Afghans struggling to ensure the physical safety of their families after the Taliban took control of the country have an additional...
BEIJING: China has expressed a willingness to hold talks with the U.S. to promote a "soft landing” in Afghanistan, while heavily criticizing Washington...
WELLINGTON: New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern put the nation under strict lockdown on Tuesday after one new case of the coronavirus was...
SYDNEY: COVID-19 cases are set to "rise substantially" in Sydney in the coming weeks despite a prolonged lockdown, authorities said on Tuesday, warning...
FUKUOKA/TOKYO: Japan was set on Tuesday to extend its state of emergency in Tokyo and other regions to Sept. 12 and widen curbs...
NEW DELHI: India administered more than 8.8 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the past 24 hours, government data showed on Tuesday, close...
WASHINGTON: U.S. forces are working with Turkish and other international troops to clear Kabul airport to allow international evacuation flights to resume, Pentagon...
New Delhi: Mohammed Irfan was 24 and newly married. Business was brisk at his modest battery shop. And within two months he was...
HANOI: Thousands of jobless workers in Vietnam's biggest city are trying to flee to their hometowns, many on motorcycles piled high with belongings,...
BOGOR, Indonesia: Four-year-old Indonesian pitbull Gledis was home alone for two days without food when a group of volunteers found her. She is...
LONDON: Britain will evacuate hundreds of British nationals and eligible Afghan nationals every day, and flights out of Afghanistan will continue for as...
The Afghanistan Civil Aviation Authority (ACAA) said on Monday that Kabul airspace had been released to the military and that it advised transit...
HONG KONG: Hong Kong's government said it would upgrade 15 overseas places including the United States, Spain and France to "high risk" from...
TOKYO: The Japanese government is set to extend its "state of emergency" soft lockdown in regions including Tokyo to the middle of September...
BEIJING: New local COVID-19 infections in China declined for a sixth day, official data showed on Monday, as most regions pulled the latest...
CANBERRA/SYDNEY: Australia's biggest city of Sydney recorded its deadliest day of the COVID-19 pandemic on Monday as troops and police set up roadblocks...
Tokyo: Tokyo Paralympics organisers opened a repair centre on Sunday for prosthetic limbs, wheelchairs and other equipment in the athletes' village ahead of...
Yogyakarta, Indonesia: Indonesia’s most active volcano erupted Monday with its biggest lava flow in months, sending a river of lava and searing gas...