Asia

Kabul: The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) distributed aid to 800 vulnerable and needy Afghan families including food, medical supplies and winter...

Amsterdam: China will seek to use Pakistan's Gwadar Port, which comes under the multi-billion dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project, as a...

Kabul: At least 26 people have been killed after an earthquake struck western Afghanistan, media reports said.Hundreds of homes were damaged in the western...

Beijing: China on Monday announced that it will restrain selling tickets to the general public for the Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics.As per the...

New York: The United Nations (UN) had scaled up food assistance in Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover in mid-August.On Monday, the UN Office for the...

North Korea fired two unidentified projectiles toward the ocean off its east coast on Monday, the South Korean military said.

Beijing: A day after Beijing reported its first case of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant and as it readies to host the Winter Olympics next month, strict new...

Washington: A new rare-earth bill was introduced in the US Senate on Friday, aiming to force defence contractors to end the use of rare earth minerals...

Tokyo: In the first intrusion of 2022, four Chinese coast guard ships sailed in Japanese waters around the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea for more...

The Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday that its troop contingent sent to Kazakhstan to help stop violent unrest in the central Asian country has...