Most women have been barred from their government jobs, since the Taliban retook power in August, though Afghanistan's new rulers claim they will be allowed to return once some conditions are in place -- such as segregated offices. On Tuesday, the ...

Landlocked Mongolia is dependent on mineral exports to its giant neighbours, Russia and China, but there have also been protests in the capital Ulaanbaatar over Beijing's language policy in Inner Mongolia. Critics of the policy in the Chinese borde...

Putin's move -- which came with tens of thousands of Russian soldiers on Ukraine's borders and fears of an all-out invasion -- was quickly and widely condemned by Kyiv's allies in the West. The United States, Britain and the European Union all move...

Western powers reacted swiftly to Monday's decision by Russian President Vladimir Putin to recognise the independence of two self-proclaimed republics in east Ukraine and a deployment of troops to the region, condemning Moscow and calling for sancti...

Traffic remains "nowhere near pre-pandemic levels" despite rising to 29.1 million passengers last year, Dubai Airports chief Paul Griffiths said in an interview. The figures announced on Tuesday, up 12.7 percent from 2020, mean that Dubai remains t...

2022-02-22 08:09 'During that speech, Putin said very ominously, "Russia can teach Ukraine what real decommunization means"'

France will introduce “targeted sanctions” against Russian interests in response to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to send troops to east Ukraine, French finance minister Bruno Le Maire said on Tuesday.

Telecom providers Digicel and TCC said data connectivity had been restored to two main islands, after breaks in an 80-kilometre (50-mile) stretch of the cable were finally fixed. Residents reported services were quickly coming back online, email se...

Praggnanandhaa, 16, who in 2016 became the youngest international master in history at age 10, beat Carlsen late on Monday at the Airthings Masters rapid chess tournament. "It's about time to go to bed as I don't think I will have dinner at 2.30 in...

The February 4 joint statement by the neighbours included unprecedented support from Beijing for Moscow's opposition to the expansion of NATO, and came as Washington and its allies were warning of full-scale Russian military action against Kyiv. It...

Rana Ayyub, a fierce critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Hindu nationalist ideology of his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has been the target of a relentless campaign of online abuse -- including death and rape threats. She is the "victim...

Hailed as a "political prisoner" by her supporters, Anez has been on a hunger strike since February 9, the eve of her trial over the ouster of former leftist president Evo Morales. "The request for an extension of (provisional) detention can be gra...

2022-02-22 07:04 'What happens now will be determined in the national capitals'

But in an unprecedented move, Norway has banned the breeding of these dogs because being cute is causing them suffering. In a recent ruling, the Oslo district court banned the breeding of the two purebreds on the grounds that it inflicts harm on th...

Former child factory worker Lee Jae-myung, a school dropout maimed in an industrial accident as a teen, is the ruling Democratic Party's maverick candidate in the March 9 election. A rarity for politicians in status-obsessed South Korea, Lee is pla...