Sri Lanka's former president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled the country in July after tens of thousands of protesters stormed his home and office in a display of anger over the country's economic crisis, has...
Over 200 cases of COVID-19 were reported in the southwestern Chinese city Chengdu on Friday as the city ordered its 21 million residents to stay at home.
Rounds of mass testing started from late Thursday and...
The U.N. special rapporteur on North Korea’s human rights met with South Korean Unification minister Kwon Young-se in Seoul on Friday. It was Elizabeth Salmón's first visit to South Korea since...
The head of the U.S. Environment Protection Agency Michael Regan said Friday that advanced nuclear technology will be "critical" for both the United States and Japan as they step up cooperation to meet...
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has launched a mobile phone program that maps the distribution of COVID-19 cases in buildings. Developed by a research team led by Professor Gary Shueng...
More international aid reached Pakistan on Wednesday, as the military and volunteers urgently tried to evacuate many thousands stranded by widespread flooding driven by monsoons that have claimed more than 1,000...
An opening ceremony was held in eastern Russia on Wednesday for the Vostok 2022 (East 2022) military drills - a show of increasingly close defence ties between Moscow and Beijing.
The Russian Defence Ministry...
A truck transporting iron on the outskirts of Indonesia's capital on Wednesday crashed at a bus stop in front of a school and killed at least 10 people, most of them elementary students.
The children were...
Malaysia on Wednesday celebrated its sixty fifth national day with a parade through Merdeka Square in the capital, Kuala Lumpur.The parade featured various military and governmental institutions and attracted...
Sri Lanka’s president said Tuesday that his bankrupt country's talks with the International Monetary Fund for a rescue package have successfully reached the final stages as he presented an amended budget...