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South Asian nation records 153 deaths, 8,660 cases over past 24 hours; 2,100 arrested for violating health guidelines

Sprawling military facility vacated by US amid effort for complete withdrawal from Afghanistan

It is also the first time since 2008 that Chinese astronauts have come out of their craft in space

Twenty-nine bodies were retrieved, 50 people had been taken to hospital, leaving 17 unaccounted for

The government has ordered a strict week-long nationwide lockdown in a bid to halt the spread of Covid-19

Pakistani president's daughter watched a movie here in 1972, during the meetings of Shimla agreement, recalls manager

Embassy terms reports factually incorrect; says consular sections temporarily closed due to Covid

As dominos topple and Afghan Taliban seize district after district, Ghani govt again looks for a way to blame Pakistan

Airline says decision taken in light of travel ban imposed by UAE government over Covid concerns

South Africa hit a record of 26,000 fresh Covid-19 cases on Saturday

Over the past decade and a half, social media platforms have been instrumental in empowering public discourse

The insurgents have pressed on with their campaign to capture territories

Pope personally gave the required approval last week for Becciu to be indicted

Analysts dismiss ‘choreographed quadcopter attack’ in IIOJK as an attempt by India to achieve several strategic goals

Fire-fighting planes depart from Greece to battle the fire, Italy also planning to deploy aerial fire-fighters

How Isabel Allende’s contributions have played a role in underlining some important moments in history

The judge will investigate 2016 multi-billion-dollar sale of Rafale fighter jets to India on 'corruption' suspicions

Violence has been raging throughout Afghanistan since President Biden announced troops withdrawal by September 11

Supplies reach South Asian nation of 165M people, ending acute shortage of vaccines

Iran, with a population of 83 million, has recorded 84,627 deaths from coronavirus, the highest toll in Middle East

All residents of Crestview Towers were told to leave immediately after engineers found serious problems

Health minister warns of 'catastrophic wave' of pandemic amid grim shortages of medical oxygen, vaccines

Saudi citizens and residents returning from these countries will be required to quarantine for 14 days

India's homegrown vaccine also showed an effectiveness of 77.8%

The quiet departure from Bagram Air Base brings an effective end to the longest war in US history

Sydney is halfway through a two-week lockdown

Both sides discuss progress on the Trans-Afghan railway project between Pakistan, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan

American forces hand over Bagram Airfield to Afghan govt

Some troops will remain in September as part of a ‘rational drawdown with our allies’, says American president

Screenings in schools had previously only been recommended if a cluster of coronavirus cases has been identified

The variant, first detected in India in December last year, has spread to about 100 countries

Pakistan condemns extra-judicial killing of 17-year-old innocent Kashmiri Zakir Bashir

Kingdom to target international transit passenger traffic with its new national airline

Islamic State is actively gaining territory in Afghanistan amid troops withdrawal, says the Russian foreign minister

Intense heat has driven up power consumption as more and more people turned to air-conditioners and air coolers

UNGA unanimously adopts the revised Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy

Target a weapons manufacturing site used by Hamas says Israel's military

The move is likely to further complicate the already fraught ties between Ankara and Washington

More than 1,000 people evacuated after the fast-moving fire engulfed the community

The closure of Bagram airbase ends the US military presence at Afghanistan’s most significant airfield

Secretary of State Antony Blinken says nearly 25m people worldwide are estimated to be victims of human trafficking

Afghan scrap dealers are collecting whatever they can of value from heaps of broken military hardware

The brothers unveiled a statue to their late mother Princess Diana on what would have been her 60th birthday

Thousands were set on Thursday to protest the decision across Turkey, where femicide has surged

Islamabad shares with New Delhi a list of 609 Indian prisoners which include 51 civilians and 558 fishermen

Leopard followed us for over 500 metres. We narrowly escaped death, says victim

Countries reducing, modernizing arsenals, fall does not indicate slowing of arms race, according to Japanese report

Many Palestinians accuse Israel of poisoning Arafat, a charge flatly denied by the Jewish state

French foreign ministry's move has invited criticism, seen as sending the wrong signal at a crucial time

China recovers briskly from the Covid-19 outbreak and takes a more assertive stance on the global stage