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Washington DC: As the United States continues to withdraw its forces from Afghanistan, US officials are divided over plans for monitoring the worn-torn...

AUCKLAND: Several hundreds of firefighters took the Auckland Sky Tower Stair Challenge in New Zealand to raise funds and awareness for leukaemia and blood...

DHAKA: Bangladesh will receive the second batch of China-donated Sinopharm vaccines to help the country combat COVID-19.According to a statement of the...

Kathmandu: Nepal's president, Bidya Devi Bhandari, dissolved the country's parliament on Saturday and called for fresh elections in November. Bhandari's...

Beijing: China's first Mars rover has started its exploration on the red planet, according to the country's national space administration. The Zhurong rover...

JAKARTA: Indonesia's most active volcano Merapi erupted again on Friday, spewing clouds of ash to the air at 1:40 a.m. local time, according to the...

Seoul, South Korea: South Korea decided Friday to extend its tightened quarantine measures for three more weeks over the continuing COVID-19 pandemic here,...

Tokyo, Japan: The Japanese government on Friday gave the green signal for two more COVID-19 vaccines -- those developed by AstraZeneca and Moderna...

Alexander Murakhovsky, the doctor who first treated Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny after he collapsed on a flight in Russia last year, has disappeared,...

New Zealand police say they have arrested a suspect after five people were stabbed at a supermarket in the city of Dunedin on Monday afternoon.