Lakki Marwat, Pakistan: Traders in Pakistan's Lakki Marwat city on Sunday threatened to launch agitation against the police’s failure to trace and arrest the robbers involved in looting cash from a businessman, media reports said.
Beijing: China's working age population, which is defined as those aged between 15 and 64, has declined from the peak of 997 million in 2014 to 986 million last year, media reports said.
Beijing: China's COVID-19 surge is troubling the economic state of the country, media reports said on Tuesday.
Honiara: Solomon Islands’ ambassador to China John Moffat Fugui has died in Beijing, media reports said.
Taipei: The Taiwanese government is going to extend its mandatory military service to one year to better train soldiers to take on mainland Chinese forces in the event of a cross-strait conflict, media reports said on Tuesday.
Mazari-I-Sharif/UNI: The Afghan police have arrested two drug smugglers in Afghanistan's northern Balkh province, provincial police spokesman Mohammad Asif Waziri said on Tuesday.
Beijing/UNI: China will cancel nucleic acid tests for international arrivals starting from Jan. 8, a Chinese Foreign Ministry statement said on Tuesday.
Barcelona: A bus plunged into a river in Spain which left at least seven people dead on Saturday, media report said.
Kabul: The Taliban rulers of Afghanistan have shut down two educational institutions in Kabul and Herat which accommodate over 1200 female students.
Beijing: The fast-spreading COVID-19 infection in China is causing blood shortages across hospitals in various provinces in the nation, media reports said on Monday.
Taipei: German companies are expanding their supply-chain links with Taiwan over the past three years to meet the challenges set by the Covid-19 era, media reports said.
Tehran: All facilities in Iran's eastern province of South Khorasan are no longer allowed to provide services to women not wearing hijab, provincial deputy governor Seyed Mohammad Reza Talebi said on Monday.
New York: Amid reports on Saturday that the Taliban had barred women from working for local and international NGOs, the United Nations said the decision would undermine the efforts of numerous organizations working throughout Afghanistan to help the most vulnerable, especially women and girls.
Tokyo: Japan has lodged a protest to China over the longest ever presence of its ships in the Japanese territorial waters near the Senkaku islands, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said on Monday.
New Delhi: Health authorities in Pakistan are ill-prepared to stop the arrival of the new variant of the COVID-19, which is wreaking havoc in China, from entering the nation, media reports said.
Dhaka: A Rohingya leader has been shot dead in a refugee camp in Bangladesh's Ukhiya region, media reports said on Monday.
Seoul: South Korean military officials have detected five North Korean drones across their mutual border,media reports said on Monday.
Dhaka: Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have arrested a member of banned terrorist outfit Hizb ut-Tahrir from Kamrangirchar area of Dhaka, media reports said on Monday.
Taipei: The Ministry of National Defense (MND) has tracked 71 Chinese military aircraft and seven naval vessels around Taiwan, media reports said on Monday.
Faizabad, Afghanistan: An explosion rocked Faizabad, the capital of northern Afghanistan's Badakhshan province on Monday, with casualties feared, an official said.
Tehran/UNI: At least two people were killed and five others injured in a mine explosion in Iran's central Semnan Province, official news agency IRNA reported.
Jerusalem: Israel's Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu pledged that his coalition government will not pass bills allowing discrimination against LGBTs and denying them access to services.
Islamabad: A Pakistani advocate, who has been convicted in a terror case, was able to get his licence from Sindh Bar Council (SBC) to practice the law, media reports said on Sunday.
Kahan: Four Pakistani army personnel died due to an improvised explosive device (IED) blast during a clearance operation in Balochistan’s Kahan area on Sunday, officials said.
Islamabad: The US government on Sunday prohibited its staff from visiting Marriott Hotel in Pakistan's Islamabad city due to possible attack.
Kathmandu: Chairperson of CPN - Maoist Center Pushpa Kamal Dahal was appointed as the Prime Minister of the new post-election government on Sunday, media reports said.
Quetta: At least four people were injured as a grenade blast rocked Pakistan's Quetta city on Sunday, media reports said.
British Columbia: At least 53 people were injured as an intercity coach crashed in the British Columbia province of Canada, media reports said on Sunday.
London: A woman died and several others were injured in a shooting incident in Wallasey near Liverpool city of England on Sunday.
