Just days after the Tokyo Olympics drew to a close, Japan appeared to be hurtling towards a coronavirus disaster. On 13...
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Turkmenistan is one of only a handful of countries, including North Korea, which says it has no coronavirus cases....
Aparade of white Taliban flags lines Musa Qala bazaar right up to the central monument where two kidnappers were hanged in...
The US has said it is concerned after the Taliban unveiled Afghanistan’s new all-male government with figures linked to...
A classified US intelligence report delivered to the White House was inconclusive on the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic,...
New Zealand’s coronavirus cluster has grown to 10, with genomic sequencing linking it to the Delta outbreak that began...
In an extraordinary rebuke over police brutality, India’s chief justice has said the most dangerous places in the country...
China has dramatically tightened travel restrictions as it seeks to control the country’s worst outbreak in months, with hundreds...
Press groups have expressed alarm at the worsening intimidation of foreign media in China, often driven by government officials and...
American diplomats are escalating a charm offensive with Central Asian leaders this week as they work to secure a...
A chain-smoking bachelor with a penchant for Coca-Cola and video games, Benigno Aquino III, who has died aged 61...
After nearly 20 years, the US military has left Bagram airfield, the epicentre of its war to oust the...