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A few weeks before the world's skiers and ice skaters landed in Zhangjiakou, the capital of the Beijing Winter Olympics, a dozen machines frantically...

KABUL: Taliban appointed Afghanistan prime minister Hassan Akhund urged Muslim countries on Wednesday to be the first to formally adopt the Taliban government, as...

LAHORE: The Punjab government has identified "gross negligence, lack of cooperation and team performance and risk assessment" as the reasons leading to the deaths...

HONG KONG, Jan 19 - Hong Kong filmmaker and kung fu master Sin Kwok Lam said on Wednesday that he intends to enter...

Aside from the numbers of the omicron and gold medals, athletes who arrive in Beijing for the Winter Games next month may have one...

Novak Djokovic has been arrested in Australia ahead of a trial that will determine whether an unvaccinated tennis star can stay in the country. The...

NUR-SULTAN, Jan 11 - Russian-led troops will begin withdrawing from Kazakhstan two days after stabilizing the Central Asian country in the aftermath of...

KARACHI, Pakistan, Jan 8 - At least 16 tourists have died from freezing temperatures after being trapped in their cars in northern Pakistan, where...

President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev says "calls to attack government and military offices are absolutely illegal". Police spent tear gas and bombing to expel hundreds of protesters in the...

For the second time in a week, Taliban and Pakistani troops clashed at the Durand Line border after troops tried to extend a barbed...

Indonesia on Wednesday said it would release dozens of Rohingya refugees to the coast following protests by local residents and the international community over...

The Taliban said Afghan women who wanted to travel long distances by road should not be allowed to travel unless they were accompanied by...

For more than five years, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte in Beijing did not end China's voyage to the South China Sea - and the...

At least 37 people were killed and about 100 others injured when a full-blown boat caught fire in southern Bangladesh, local officials said. The three-story...