South Korea is racing to harvest salt and seafood ahead of the release of contaminated water from Fukushima; Isis claims the mosque bombing in northern Afghanistan;&nb ...

Francis seeks to build bridges jwhile the 'piecemeal third world war' destroys them, raising walls and digging trenches or even drowning towns and cities under the flood of war. The initiative ...

The Taliban want foreign NGOs out of education, already crippled by restrictions on Afghan women and girls. For UN spokesman, ...

About 10,000 new nurses graduate annually but 7,000 leave state-run establishments for better pay at facilities serving ...

Activist and pro-human rights lawyer Chang Weiping was convicted in a secret trial of "subversion of state power" and was ...

This is the finding of an Amnesty International report that looks at the period between 2018 and 2022. Middle East deputy ...

The pilgrimage for the unity of the Korean people was led by the president of the Bishops' Conference 70 years after the armistice: they prayed before the Eucharist at the closest Catholic place o ...

Modi’s new, post-colonial parliament building is proving controversial among India’s neighbours for a mural showing a map of the Ashoka Empire, whose boundaries also include Nepal, Pakista ...

The Biškek court confirmed the arrest of five among the 30 people detained on June 5, including "Eldik Keneš" party leader ...

On the opening day, 18 May, three different exhibitions were on display, attracting locals and people from neighbouring ...

Proposal made in parliament to make military careers more attractive to young people. The stigma associating tattoos with ...

Floods caused by the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine's Russian-controlled Kherson region have already sent global crop prices soaring, with wheat up 2.4 percent Tuesday and corn up 1 percent, before falling ...