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The Taliban say they don’t want to monopolise power, but they insist there won’t be peace in Afghanistan until there is a new negotiated government in Kabul and President Ashraf Ghani is r...

China will bar for-profit after-school tutoring in core school subjects in a harsher-than-expected crackdown on its vast private education sector, according to a government document widely circulated ...

Pakistan has reported 1,425 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of infections to over a million, the health ministry said on Friday. The ministry of national health ...

The European Medicines Agency, the EU’s main drug regulator, on Friday authorised the use of Moderna’s Covid vaccine for children age 12 and older, clearing the way for final approval by t...

Workers driving construction vehicles helped to rescue stranded residents and deliver food to those still trapped on Friday after days of torrential rain swamped the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou....

The European Medicines Agency has recommended authorising Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 12 to 17, the first time the shot has been authorized for people under 18. In a decision on ...

 US Secretary of State Tony Blinken during his maiden trip to India next week would meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar to discuss wide range of bilateral...

Dozens of websites were reported to be offline or slow to load on Thursday, according to the online platform Downdetector, creating headaches for consumers. The outage affected a range of companies, ...

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Protesters angry about water shortages took to the streets of southwest Iran for a sixth night in a row on Tuesday, with mounting violence, while Tehran residents chanted anti-government slogans, acco...