Beijing, August 19 (PTI): China appears to be eyeing to clinch lucrative projects to exploit mineral-rich Afghanistan, especially the trillions of dollars worth of rare-earth metals, as it calibrated its policy
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Kuala Lumpur, August 19 (AP): Malaysia's longest-governing political party appeared set to reclaim the premiership it lost in a shock 2018 election defeat, with its lawmakers summoned to the palace Thursday-
Multan (Pakistan), August 19 (AP): A powerful roadside bomb exploded among a procession of Shiite Muslims in central Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least three and wounding over 50 people, local police said.
Kathmandu, August 19 (PTI): Nepal's main opposition CPN-UML, the largest communist party of the country, has officially split, with one of its factions led by dissident leader Madhav Kumar Nepal applying fo
GENEVA, AUGUST 19 (IANS): Vaccine nationalism by developed countries would prolong the Covid-19 pandemic, when it could be ended in a matter of months by sharing doses and scaling up manufacturing equitably, th
Kabul, August 19 (AP): The Taliban celebrated Afghanistan's Independence Day on Thursday by declaring they beat the United States, but challenges to their rule ranging from running a country severely short
Jakarta, August 19 (AP): When February's military takeover of Myanmar led to the collapse of the central health care system, independent ethnic organizations that had operated for decades on the Southeast A
Kabul, August 18 (AP): The Taliban violently broke up a protest in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least one person as they quashed a rare public show of dissent. The militant group meanwhile met w-
Dhaka, August 18 (PTI): A Bangladeshi high-powered administrative committee has suggested sacking an executive magistrate here for sentencing a journalist to one-year imprisonment, staging a "midnight mobi
LONDON, AUGUST 18 (IANS): Animals known as carriers of coronaviruses were sold at local wet markets for years, finds a new study supporting the theory that the Covid-19 is the result of virus jumping from anima
Washington, August 18 (AP): The US State Department has released a joint statement signed by about two dozen nations expressing concern for the rights of Afghan women and girls and urging those in power in Afgh
Bangkok, August 18 (AP): More than 1,000 people have been killed by security forces in Myanmar since the military seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi about six months ago, a human right
London, August 18 (PTI): Any recognition of the new government in Afghanistan should happen on an "international, not unilateral" basis, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has told his Pakistan coun
Kabul, August 18 (AP): The Taliban have blown up the statue of a Shiite militia leader who fought against them during Afghanistan's civil war in the 1990s, according to photos circulating on Wednesday, sowi
MUMBAI/PUNE, AUGUST 18 (IANS): Expressing 'solidarity' with the besieged Afghanis, especially the womenfolk, as militant Talibans seized control of their country, irate Indian feminists questioned for h-
Beijing, August 18 (AP): China's ruling Communist Party has expelled a leading internet censor and accused him of a range of crimes and rule breaking from corruption to failing to properly guide public opin
Washington, August 18 (AP): The Taliban have agreed to allow safe passage from Afghanistan for civilians struggling to join a US-directed airlift from the capital, President Joe Biden's national security ad
Kabul, August 17 (AP): A Taliban spokesman has pledged to honor women's rights, but within the norms of Islamic law. Zabihullah Mujahid made the comment Tuesday at his first news conference. For years, h
Beijing, August 17 (PTI): China on Tuesday asked the US to tone down frictions, re-impose the ban on Xinjiang's Uygur militant group -- the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) -- for cooperation to stabi
Tokyo, August 17 (AP): Maki Kaji, the creator of the popular numbers puzzle Sudoku whose life's work was spreading the joy of puzzles, has died, his Japanese company said Tuesday. He was 69 and had bile duc
