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Asia

6 Aug
Sri Lankans voted on Wednesday to elect a new Parliament that is expected to give strong support to the powerful and popular Rajapaksa brothers. At least four members of the family were running in the...
6 Aug
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Wednesday presided over a small meeting of close aides which called for aid to Kaesong, North Korea's city under coronavirus lockdown, state media reported. KCNA reported the...
5 Aug
An Islamic State group attack on a prison holding hundreds of its members in eastern Afghanistan continued on Monday, with at least 21 people dead and 43 injured.  The prison assault took place in Jalalabad,...
5 Aug
Commuter trains, buses and other public vehicles stayed off the main roads of the Philippine capital Tuesday and police were again staffing checkpoints to restrict public travel as surging virus cases forced...
4 Aug
Indian movie star Amitabh Bachchan, who was hospitalised on July 11 after being diagnosed with COVID-19, was discharged after his latest coronavirus test came back negative. Bachchan, one of India's best known...
4 Aug
Chinese health authority said Monday that 43 new COVID-19 cases were reported on the Chinese mainland on Sunday, with 36 being domestically transmitted cases. Twenty-eight domestically-transmitted cases were...
30 Jul
Chinese health authority said on Thursday that it received reports of 105 new confirmed COVID-19 cases on the Chinese mainland on Wednesday, including 102 domestically transmitted cases and three imported ones. No...
28 Jul
Chinese health authority said on Tuesday that it received reports of 68 new confirmed COVID-19 cases on the Chinese mainland on Monday, including four imported cases and 64 locally-transmitted ones. No deaths...
28 Jul
Former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak arrived at a Kuala Lumpur court on Tuesday to hear a verdict in the first of several trials he faces over a multi-billion dollar graft scandal at 1Malaysia Development...
28 Jul
Floods triggered by days of heavy monsoon rains inundated a residential area near the Bangladesh capital Dhaka on Monday, leaving families stranded. More than nine million people have been affected by monsoon...

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