The number of people infected with coronavirus across the world surpasses 100,000 as the outbreak reached more countries and the economic damage intensified, with business districts beginning to empty and stock markets tumbling.

Myanmar’s legal counsel in an ongoing genocide trial at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) once compared the government’s treatment of Rohingya Muslims to Nazi Germany’s treatment of Jews during the Holocaust, according to a previously unreleased video footage of 2013 obtained and published by Fortify Rights.

At least 27 people are killed in an attack on a political rally in Kabul, officials say, in the deadliest assault in Afghanistan since the US signed a withdrawal deal with the Taliban.

The isolated Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has reported its first case of the coronavirus after a US tourist tested positive, the prime minister says.

Brac, a Bangladesh-based non-government organisation, has been ranked the top NGO in the world in 2020, for the fifth consecutive year.

India yesterday said that in addition to coronavirus cases related to travel, some cases of community transmission have also been observed in the country.

A Russian court yesterday fined opposition politician Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation 500,000 roubles ($7,536) for failing to

Former UN chief Javier Perez de Cuellar, who was known for his peace-making efforts including brokering a ceasefire in the Iran-Iraq

A state visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping has been postponed as preventing the outbreak of the new coronavirus is “the biggest

Surveillance of “homegrown” US extremists by the FBI was flawed until 2019, a watchdog report said Wednesday, saying that the weaknesses may have allowed deadly attacks to occur.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has sent a letter expressing hope for South Korea to overcome a coronavirus outbreak, President Moon Jae-in’s office said yesterday, as the South battles the biggest epidemic of the disease outside China.

The Pentagon on Wednesday played down the gravity of new Taliban attack in Afghanistan that cast doubts on a four-day old peace deal between the insurgent group and the United States.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday hailed Democrat Joe Biden’s “incredible comeback” in the primaries race and signaled how he will attack the new frontrunner, saying he was surrounded by far leftists.

EU members on Wednesday rejected what they said is Turkey’s use of desperate migrants to pressure its neighbours -- and strongly backed Greece’s border crackdown.

New research from Singapore published Wednesday showed that patients with the novel coronavirus extensively contaminate their bedrooms and bathrooms, underscoring the need to routinely clean high-touch surfaces, basins and toilet bowls.

Police in Lithuania intervened in a domestic dispute on Wednesday after a man locked his wife in the bathroom over fears that she may

The makers of the new James Bond movie due for global release next month said on Wednesday it would be delayed until November amid

A fistfight erupted in the Turkish parliament on Wednesday during a speech by an opposition lawmaker who earlier accused President

The world’s tropical forests are rapidly losing their ability to absorb carbon dioxide from greenhouse gas emissions, with the Amazon rainforest at risk of turning from carbon sink to source within 15 years, researchers warned Wednesday.

A popular full-moon party in southern Thailand known for its raucous revelry has been cancelled because of the coronavirus, an official said yesterday, the latest hit to a tourism industry which foresees a loss of six million visitors this year.