American warplanes dropped more bombs on Afghanistan in 2019 than at any other time in at least a decade, according to the US Air Force, as Washington intensified attacks in the country amid withdrawal talks with the Taliban.

President Xi Jinping yesterday said China was sure of defeating a “devil” coronavirus that has killed 106 people, spread across the world and rattled financial markets.

Eight people were killed in a late night fire that swept through docked boats on a lake in the southern US state of Alabama

Clashes between rival armed groups in Bria, a strategic town in eastern Central African Republic, have left dozens dead, a senior official

Chief Minister of India’s Mizoram Zoramthanga will visit Bangladesh in March to attend an event marking the birth centenary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, says the state’s Assembly Speaker Lalrinliana Sailo.

Israeli citizens are not allowed to come to Saudi Arabia, the kingdom's foreign minister announces after the Jewish state said it gave its citizens the green light to visit.

China urges its citizens to postpone trips abroad as the country expands a massive effort to contain a viral outbreak that has killed more than 100 people nationwide.

Eight people were killed in a late night fire that swept through docked boats on a lake in the southern US state of Alabama, the local fire chief says.

The United States and other nations race to get their citizens out of the locked-down Chinese city at ground-zero of a virus epidemic, as the death toll surges to 106 and the number of confirmed infections doubled to over 4,500.

President Donald Trump hosted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday ahead of unveiling a “peace plan” already flatly rejected by the Palestinians -- but providing both leaders welcome distraction from their respective political crises.

The Taliban claimed a US forces aircraft crashed in eastern Afghanistan yesterday hours after the plane went down into an area controlled largely by the insurgents.

Turkish prosecutors are investigating dozens of people for “provocative” social media messages about the deadly earthquake in eastern Turkey, reports said yesterday.

A charismatic Pashtun rights leader who repeatedly accused the powerful military of abuse has been arrested in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar, police said yesterday.

Iranians should not allow US President Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure” approach to harm national unity ahead of parliamentary elections, President Hassan Rouhani said in a speech, lashing out at hardliners over mass disqualification of candidates.

Chinese officials at the epicentre of a health crisis are coming under fire for incompetence and being ridiculed for not properly wearing protective masks as anger mounts over the handling of a deadly virus.

President Donald Trump yesterday denied that he told his former national security advisor John Bolton that military aid to Ukraine was tied to Kiev investigating his political rivals.

A virus similar to the SARS pathogen has claimed 81 lives since emerging in a market in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, and spread around the world. Here are the places that have confirmed cases of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus:

The rapid spread of a deadly virus in China caused growing global alarm yesterday, with Germany advising citizens to avoid the country, Mongolia closing its border and other nations racing to evacuate citizens trapped at the epicentre of the health emergency.

Indian enforcement agencies should be able to break end-to-end encryption to hunt down distributors of child pornography online, a parliamentary panel has urged as the south Asian nation looks to regulate social media.

West Bengal legislative assembly passes a resolution against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), becoming the fourth Indian state to do so.