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Pakistan is looking ahead to a general election next year. (Representational Image)

Mysterious illness claims 18 lives in Pakistan

KARACHI: A mysterious illness has killed 18 people, mostly children, in Karachi's Kemari area with health officials...

27 Jan 2023 6:30 PM IST

Chinese President Xi Jinping. (AP)

Xi inspects combat readiness of troops stationed along India-China...

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping has held a video conversation with the soldiers stationed along the India-China...

21 Jan 2023 12:33 AM IST

Rescuers pull the body of a victim who died in a Yeti Airlines plane crash in Pokhara on January 16, 2023. - Nepal observed a day of mourning on January 16 for the victims of the nations deadliest aviation disaster in three decades, with 67 people confirmed killed in the plane crash. (Photo: AFP)

Black box of crashed Yeti Airlines aircraft recovered from accident...

KATHMANDU: The black box of the crashed Yeti Airlines aircraft was recovered from the accident site on Monday, officials...

16 Jan 2023 3:01 PM IST

China recorded 59,938 Covid-related deaths between December 8, 2022 and January 12 this year. (Representational Image)

China reports almost 60,000 Covid-related deaths in a month

BEIJING: China's health authorities on Saturday reported almost 60,000 Covid-related deaths in just over a month,...

14 Jan 2023 5:47 PM IST

This handout picture taken and released on January 10, 2023 by BNPB (National Disaster Management Agency) shows a damaged house after a 7.6-magnitude earthquake hit deep under the ocean off Indonesia and East Timor, in the Tanimbar islands in Maluku. (Photo: AFP)

7.6 quake damages buildings in Indonesia, felt in Australia

JAKARTA: A powerful deep-sea earthquake damaged village buildings in a lightly populated island chain in eastern...

10 Jan 2023 5:46 PM IST

Afghan boys sit near their damaged house that was destroyed in an earthquake in the Spera District of the southwestern part of Khost Province, Afghanistan. (AP Photo)

7.6 quake damages buildings in Indonesia, felt in Australia

Deeper quakes tend to cause less surface damage than shallow shaking but are more widely felt

10 Jan 2023 7:44 AM IST

A health worker takes a swab sample from a resident to be tested for Covid-19 coronavirus in Jiayuguan, in Chinas northwestern Gansu province on November 24, 2022. (Photo by AFP) / China OUT

WHO asks China to regularly share data on Covid-19 situation

The global health agency has asked Chinese health officials to share data on genetic sequencing, hospitalisations,...

31 Dec 2022 9:40 AM IST

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects a missile test at an undisclosed location in North Korea, as taken sometime between Sept. 25 and Oct. 9. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

North Korea fires ballistic missiles capping record year of tests

North Korea-'s end-of-year plenary meetings are typically used by the regime to unveil its domestic, foreign policy for...

31 Dec 2022 8:25 AM IST

Nepalese police escort Charles Sobhraj, in brown cap, to the immigration office, in Kathmandu, Nepal, Friday, Dec. 23, 2022. Confessed French serial killer Charles Sobhraj has been released from prison in Nepal after serving most of his sentence. Sobhraj was driven out of Central Jail in Kathmandu to the Department of Immigration under heavy guard Friday after the Supreme Court ordered him to be released because of poor health and good behavior. (Photo: AP)

Serial killer Charles Sobhraj deported to France after being released...

KHATMANDU: Charles Sobhraj, the notorious French serial killer of Indian and Vietnamese parentage, was deported to...

23 Dec 2022 6:54 PM IST

In this file photo taken on April 22, 2007, Iranian police officers stop a car during a crackdown to enforce the Islamic dress code in the north of the capital Tehran. - Iran has scrapped its morality police after more than two months of protests triggered by the arrest of Mahsa Amini for allegedly violating the countrys strict female dress code, local media said Sunday.

Protest-hit Iran abolishes morality police

TEHRAN: Iran has scrapped its morality police after more than two months of protests triggered by the arrest of Mahsa...

4 Dec 2022 6:17 PM IST

People walking across a street in Haizhu district, Guangzhou city, in Chinas southern Guangdong province, following the easing of Covid-19 restrictions in the city. (AFP)

China signals zero-Covid relaxation after protests

Anger over China-'s zero-Covid policy has sparked protests in major cities including Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou

1 Dec 2022 11:40 AM IST

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Islamic State group announces death of leader

BEIRUT: The Islamic State jihadist group said Wednesday that its leader Abu Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi has been killed...

30 Nov 2022 9:53 PM IST