The CoronaVac vaccine reduces coronavirus mortality by 97 percent, according to early results of the immunization campaign in Uruguay, which relies heavily on the Chinese jab.

Sri Lanka faces an unprecedented pollution crisis as waves of plastic waste from a burning container ship hit the coast and threaten to devastate the

Mount Everest guide Buddhi Bahadur Lama has spent days isolated in a tent after testing positive for coronavirus, as an outbreak that climbers say

Republicans in the US Senate on Friday derailed a bipartisan inquiry into the deadly assault on the Capitol by Donald Trump’s supporters, despite a

A roadside bomb hit a bus carrying university staff in northern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing three teachers and wounding 15 others, police said on Saturday.

China will launch the Tianzhou-2 cargo spacecraft to the country's space station at 8:55 PM Beijing time (1255 GMT) on Saturday, the China National Space Administration said, according to state media on Saturday.

Where is Sheikh Jaber? Kuwait was abuzz with the question as citizens on social media demanded to know the whereabouts of their 79-year-old former prime minister. He’d been ordered detained pending trial in an unprecedented move last month over the alleged embezzlement of millions of dollars from a military aid fund.

India yesterday described UN General Assembly President Volkan Bozkir’s remarks that Pakistan should raise the Kashmir issue more forcefully and that all parties should refrain from steps that affect the status of Jammu and Kashmir as “unwarranted” and “regrettable”.

The Biden administration is unlikely to remove tariffs on Chinese goods in the short term, but China and the United States might find a middle ground by increasing tariff exclusions as a way to reduce tensions, a Chinese think-tank said.

UK MP and COP26 President-Designate Alok Sharma will visit Bangladesh as part of his tour to Asia next week to strengthen support for UK COP26 climate priorities ahead of the summit in Glasgow this November.

The remains of 215 children, some as young as three years old, were found at the site of a former residential school for indigenous children, a discovery Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described as heartbreaking on Friday.

The New York Times, on May 28, published a list of children killed in the latest Israel-Gaza flare-up of violence.

The World Health Organization's (WHO) top emergency expert said on Friday the search for the origin of the coronavirus was being "poisoned by politics", days after US President Joe Biden ordered aides to find answers.

NASA has released a stunning new picture of our galaxy’s violent, super-energized “downtown.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday offered his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko support in his standoff with the West over his handling of the grounding of a passenger jet and the arrest of a dissident blogger.

A man stabbed and badly wounded a policewoman in the town of La Chapelle-sur-Erdre in western France yesterday before he was arrested in a shoot-out, the national gendarmerie force.

Thirty-two members of parliament in the Democratic Republic of Congo, or about 5% of the total, have died from Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic, the vice president of the National Assembly said.

Bashar al-Assad has been re-elected for a fourth term as president of war-ravaged Syria, official results showed on Thursday, despite Western accusations the polls were “neither free nor fair”.

Jailed Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai was among eight democracy activists handed new prison sentences yesterday for attending protests on the 70th anniversary of the founding of communist China that were followed by a sweeping crackdown.

Hong Kong mountaineer Tsang Yin-hung has recorded the world’s fastest ascent of Everest by a woman with a time of just under 26 hours, a Nepal official said Thursday.