Indian state Madhya Pradesh’s cabinet yesterday passed by a voice vote a bill aimed at curbing forced religious conversions. If passed into law, i

Governments will seek to administer “the minimal effective dose” of measures, such as bans on large gatherings or high-risk activities,

Two Afghan policemen were killed as three separate “sticky bombs” exploded in Kabul yesterday, the latest violence to hit the Afghan capital.

Some people in Delhi “want to teach me lessons in democracy”, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said yesterday, hitting back at top Congress leader Rahul Gandhi after the latter, in his recent attack of the government and PM Modi, said there was “no democracy” in India and that those who stood up against the PM were labelled terrorists”.

Hamas yesterday denounced as “barbaric” overnight strikes it said damaged a Gaza children’s hospital, while the Israel army said it was responding to rocket fire from the enclave.

The worldwide effort to prevent Earth from becoming an unlivable hothouse is in the grips of “net zero” fever.

The death toll from a Wednesday attack in the western Benishangul-Gumuz region of Ethiopia has risen to 222 people, a volunteer from the country’s Red Cross told Reuters on Friday.

China has lowered the age of criminal responsibility to 12 years old for “abominable” crimes such as murder or causing injury that leads to death or severe disabilities by extremely cruel means, the China Daily said.

The Malaysian Human Resource Ministry will introduce a new application that will enable a two-way communication between the government and local and foreign workers, Minister Datuk Seri M Saravanan has said.

Japan has decided to ban all new entries of foreign nationals from December 28 to the end of January following the detection of a new variant of the coronavirus in arrivals from Britain, Nikkei reported today.

When a worker at a Russian waste-sorting plant rescued a cat from imminent death, he had no idea it would end up being adopted by the Ulyanovsk region’s environment ministry and unofficially given the position of deputy environment minister.

Taxi driver Nicolas Walteros and his beloved dog Colonel take passengers around the Colombian capital together, dressed in matching green Santa tops and hats, aviator sunglasses and a fluffy fake beard resting on the pup’s blonde snout.

India’s government detained at least 75 Kashmiri political leaders and activists to forestall political unrest after an alliance of Kashmir’s regional political parties won a local election, leaders and a police official have said.

Britain and the European Union on Saturday published the full text of the post-Brexit trade agreement aimed at governing their relationship when the UK definitively leaves the bloc's single market in just five days' time.

The European Union began a vaccine rollout Saturday, even as countries in the bloc were forced back into lockdown by a new strain of the virus, believed to be more infectious, that continues to spread from Britain.

India’s first driverless train operations on Delhi Metro network will begin its journey on Monday (December 28).

Four people were injured in a shooting in the German capital Berlin in the early hours of Saturday, police said.

A doctor in Boston with a shellfish allergy developed a severe allergic reaction after receiving Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine on Thursday, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing the doctor.

China will overtake the United States to become the world’s biggest economy in 2028, five years earlier than previously estimated due to the contrasting recoveries of the two countries from the COVID-19 pandemic, a think tank said.

Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has received his first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, as part of a national Covid-19 vaccination plan being implemented by the ministry of health, according to state news agency SPA.