As evacuations from Kabul wind down in coming days, "a larger crisis is just beginning" in Afghanistan and for its 39 million people, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Monday, appealing for support.

As schools, colleges and coaching centres across Indian capital Delhi resume physical classes from September 1, after nearly five months’ closure due to Covid-19, Delhi Disaster Management Authorities today announced guidelines including setting up of quarantine rooms for emergency use.

US anti-missile defences intercepted as many as five rockets that were fired at Kabul's airport early on Monday morning, a US official said, as the United States rushed to complete its withdrawal from Afghanistan to end its longest war.

France, Britain and Germany are working on a United Nations proposal aimed at establishing a safe zone in Kabul to allow safe passage for people trying to leave Afghanistan, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday.

A huge explosion was reported near Kabul airport yesterday after a rocket had hit a neighbourhood, hours after US President Joe Biden warned of another terror attack. 

Two Japanese regions yesterday suspended use of some Moderna Covid-19 shots after more cases of contamination were spotted, the local governments said.

Singapore has fully inoculated 80 percent of its 5.7 million people against COVID-19, according to officials, becoming the world’s most vaccinated country and setting the stage for further easing of curbs.

For many affluent young Chinese consumers, modern simplicity is out and tradition is back in when it comes to jewellery.

Japanese oil company Inpex Corp sold two Venezuelan oil and gas assets to Caracas-based Sucre Energy Group, three people familiar with the transaction said, as multinational firms retreat from the crisis-stricken OPEC nation. 

American forces launched a drone strike in Kabul on Sunday targeting a suicide bomber in a vehicle who was aiming to attack the airport, U.S. officials said, as the United States nears the end of its military presence in the city.

The 12 Bangladeshis and 160 female Afghan students who were evacuated from Afghanistan and went to Qatar on Saturday have been under quarantine at a US base in Doha.

Former officials and lecturers at Afghanistan universities have called on the Taliban to maintain and upgrade the country’s education system instead of creating a new one.

Two Malaysian militants believed to be fighting alongside the Afghan affiliate of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), known as Islamic State Khorasan (IS-K), have been detained by Taleban authorities.

US forces are in the final phase of leaving Kabul, ending two decades of involvement in Afghanistan, and just over 1,000 civilians at the airport remain to be flown out before troops withdraw, a Western security official said on Sunday.

Singapore has fully inoculated 80% of its 5.7 million people against COVID-19, the health minister said on Sunday, becoming the world's most vaccinated country and setting the stage for further easing of curbs.

 U.S. President Joe Biden on Saturday promised further strikes against the Islamic State in Afghanistan in retaliation for a deadly bombing outside Kabul airport and warned that the situation on the ground continued to be "extremely dangerous."

Last year, the two men who ran the club were found guilty of several prostitution-related offences and for obstructing the course of justice.

The Taliban said on Saturday they would announce a new government for Afghanistan in the coming week and expected the economic turbulence and sharp currency falls that followed their take-over of the city two weeks ago to subside quickly.

Japan is investigating the death of two men who received jabs from batches of Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine suspended from use due to contamination, the health ministry said yesterday.

India yesterday reported 46,759 new coronavirus infections, the most in nearly two months, as cases surged in the southern state of Kerala after a big festival.