KABUL: An envoy for Qatar’s foreign affairs minister visited the Afghan capital on Sunday

TURKEY: A powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Turkey and Syria on Monday, killing dozens,

WASHINGTON: Just under 1,000 children separated from their parents while attempting to enter

KABUL: Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities have “beaten and detained” an academic who voiced

WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden has underlined his support for the legal “status quo” of Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa

RAMALLAH: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken shuttled from Israel to the Palestinians’ West Bank

NEW DEHLI: India proposed on Wednesday 5.94 trillion rupees ($72.6 billion) in defence spending

DHAKA: The Bangladesh government has ordered the closure of 191 websites it accuses of publishing

SEOUL: A South Korean soldier mistakenly fired a machine gun near the border with North Korea,

COLUMBIA: Former US president Donald Trump warned on Saturday that the next election

PRAGUE: Newly-elected Czech president Petr Pavel, a former Nato general, will promote

SYDNEY: Thousands of Australians marked the country’s national day celebrations on

SAN FRANCISCO: Meta Platforms Inc said on Wednesday it will reinstate former US

WASHINGTON: A truck-sized asteroid will pass near Earth on Thursday in one of the closest

TEHRAN: Relations between Iran and Europe have deteriorated sharply, with the EU and Britain

TEHRAN: Iranian authorities have arrested three female journalists in the past two days,

WASHINGTON: The United Nations has urged the global community to remind Afghanistan’s

SEOUL: South Korea on Saturday arrested a former national security chief on

MANAMA: The US Navy said on Saturday it had seized one million rounds of ammunition

TEHRAN: Iran said on Saturday it is reviewing a decades-old law that requires women to cover