The Taliban yesterday claimed responsibility for a truck bomb in southern Helmand province that killed at least five Afghan security force

The acting top US diplomat for South Asia announced her retirement Sunday, as President Donald Trump looks increasingly likely to go a full

The Trump administration is “turbocharging” an initiative to remove global industrial supply chains from China as it weighs new tariffs to punish Beijing for its handling of the coronavirus outbreak, according to officials familiar with US planning.

Italy’s coronavirus death toll is much higher than reported, statistics bureau ISTAT says in an analysis pointing to thousands of fatalities that have never been officially attributed to Covid-19.

United Nations leaders call for a global effort to develop and distribute to all at affordable prices vaccines, treatments and testing kits against Covid-19.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen urges Non-Allied Movement (NAM) members to find innovative solutions and approaches to tackle the coronavirus pandemic.

The Vietnamese people are now celebrating the 45th anniversary of the Great Victory on April 30, 1975, the liberation of the South, the reunification of the country and the 130th birthday of President Ho Chi Minh on May 19.

Hundreds of migrant workers in India’s Gujarat looking to return home amid the nationwide Covid-19-enforced lockdown clash with police near a village in Surat district.

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide surpassed 3.5 million on Monday, with three quarters of them in Europe and the United States, an AFP tally based on official sources showed.

Human rights groups has called for an investigation into a prison riot in western Venezuela that left 46 people dead and 75 injured, and questioned authorities’ explanation that the incident was linked to a failed escape attempt.

Five security personnel and four suspected militants have been killed in two gun battles in Indian-administered Kashmir, officials said yesterday.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un did not undergo surgery during his almost three week absence from public life, South Korean news outlet Yonhap said citing a senior government official, as the two Koreas exchanged gunfire around the border yesterday.

More than 244,084 people have died worldwide since the epidemic surfaced in China in December, according to a Johns Hopkins University

The British government had a contingency plan for Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s death as he battled COVID-19 in intensive care last month, he said in an interview with The Sun newspaper.

North Korea fires multiple gunshots towards the South in the Demilitarized Zone dividing the peninsula, prompting South Korean troops to fire back, Seoul's military say.

A prison riot has left at least 47 dead and 75 wounded in western Venezuela, a country where NGOs and inmates' families regularly denounce unsanitary conditions, violence and overcrowding behind bars.

North Korea’s Kim Jong Un has made his first public appearance in nearly three weeks, state media reported yesterday, following intense speculation that the leader of the nuclear-armed nation was seriously ill or possibly dead.

US presidential candidate Joe Biden on Friday emphatically denied sexually assaulting a former aide, saying the alleged incident 27 years ago “never happened.”

The World Health Organization reiterated Friday that the new coronavirus was of natural origin after US President Donald Trump claimed he had seen evidence it originated in a Chinese lab.

India has mandated that all public and private sector employees use a government-backed Bluetooth tracing app and maintain social distancing in offices as New Delhi begins easing some of its lockdown measures in lower-risk areas.