The 81st Pakistan Day was observed on Tuesday with traditional fervor and zeal at the Pakistani Embassy in Beijing, where guests were hosted and enjoyed enterta

Visitors watch a rhino at the Central Zoo in Lalitpur, Nepal, Dec. 10, 2020. (Photo by Sulav Shrestha/Xinhua)

The Nepali government started census of the rhi

Scores of people have died in the deadliest suspected jihadist massacre ever to hit Niger, the government said Monday, underscoring the huge security challenge

Germany is poised to prolong and tighten a partial lockdown into April as new virus cases soar, according to a draft document seen by AFP ahead of a government

A $2 trillion group of investors on Monday urged the European Commission to be more ambitious in its planned overhaul of the bloc's huge farming subsidy program

Trust in AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine in many European countries has plunged following controversy around the jab in recent weeks, according to a new surve

Photo taken on March 22, 2021 shows white smokes spewing from Mount Merapi as seen from Kaliurang of Sleman district in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Indonesia's most

Protesters marched against the military junta at a predawn rally in Myanmar's second largest city on Monday, a day after eight demonstrators were killed.

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The vast majority of Japanese agree with the decision to bar overseas spectators from the Tokyo Olympics, a new poll found on Monday, with support for the Games

Australian authorities are planning to evacuate thousands more people on Monday from flood-affected suburbs in Sydney's west, which is set for its worst floodin

French armed forces chief of staff General Francois Lecointre on Sunday dismissed as "completely crazy" allegations that France helped suspects in the 1994 Rwan

A man walks along the Waterloo Bridge backdropped by the Houses of Parliament in London, Britain on Dec. 29, 2020. (Photo: Xinhua)

A once-a-decade census has

The launch of a Russian Soyuz-ST carrier rocket with two Galileo satellites from the Kourou Space Center in French Guiana has been put off from September until

An Italian prosecutor formally called on Saturday for right-wing League leader Matteo Salvini to be tried for kidnapping over his decision to prevent more than

Greece will this week celebrate the 200th anniversary of the uprising that created its modern state, a romantic revolution that experts say captivated both elit

President Tayyip Erdogan pulled Turkey out of an international accord designed to protect women, the government said on Saturday, prompting protests and critici

Russian scientists are trying to understand the scale of a potential threat to the environment in Siberia: snow polluted with microplastics that then melts and

Once notorious for its bland food and long, harsh winters, Finland's repeated success in the annual happiness rankings has helped transform the country's global

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Fear of the second wave of COVID-19 looms large in India as 46,951 new cases reported during the past 24 hours took the total tally to 11,646,081,

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta on Saturday in support of the Asian American community after a shooting at three

Sydney braced for its worst flooding in decades Sunday after record rainfall caused its largest dam to overflow and as deluges prompted mandatory mass evacuatio

Seiko Hashimoto, president of the Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, speaks during the five-party meeting at the Tokyo 2020 headqua

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Wednesday that Antonov was being invited to Moscow to discuss the future of the US-Russia relationship following

Turkish MOP for the political party Peoples' Democratic Party Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu (right) reacts after being dismissed in Ankara on Wednesday. Photo: AFPA t

People cross a street in Tokyo's Ikebukuro area, on Sunday. Japan has reported more than 404,000 COVID-19 infections as of Sunday, with 6,373 deaths. The Japane