Around 240 grooms and brides were married at a mass wedding ceremony in western Afghanistan's Herat province. The event was organised by a charity organisation, and each newlywed couple received household appliances, including carpet, blanket, and kitchen tools valued at 100,000 afghani (about 1,4
A Pakistani court granted bail Wednesday to former Prime Minister Imran Khan in a graft case, his lawyer said. But with a slew of other charges pending against him, the opposition leader is staying in prison. Still, the order by a superior court in the capital, Islamabad, was a boost for Khan
A suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden vehicle at a security post in northwestern Pakistan, killing 12 members of the security forces and wounding several others, officials said Wednesday. The attack, one of the deadliest in recent months, happened Tuesday evening in Bannu, a district
Pakistan plans a new military offensive against separatist insurgents in southwestern Balochistan province, home to key Chinese Belt and Road projects, but it was not immediately clear if the plan would be a joint effort with its giant neighbour. Following a string of deadly attacks&n
The foreign ministers of India and China, S. Jaishankar and Wang Yi, have discussed resuming direct flights between the two countries, in a move expected to bolster trade, tourism, and cultural exchanges. The development comes several weeks after New Delhi and Beijing agreed to resolve a four-year
Iraq began its first nationwide population census in decades Wednesday, a step aimed at modernising data collection and planning in a country long impacted by conflict and political divisions. The act of counting the population is also contentious. The census is expected to have profound implicati
How do you remove children from the harms of social media? Politically the answer appears simple in Australia, but practically the solution could be far more difficult. The Australian government's plan to ban children from social media platforms including X, TikTok, Facebook and Instagram until th
Millions of people are voting in state elections in politically significant Maharashtra, India’s western industrial hub, and the mineral-rich eastern province of Jharkhand on Wednesday, a test of the popularity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party and its regional p
Yemen's Houthi group said in a statement on Tuesday that it had launched a rocket attack on the "Anadolu S" ship in the Red Sea. "We carried out an operation targeting the ship, Anadolu S, in the Red Sea with a number of appropriate ballistic and naval rockets, and the hit was accurate," Houthi mi
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a visit to Gaza on Tuesday that Hamas would not rule the Palestinian enclave after the war had ended and that Israel had destroyed the Islamist group's military capabilities. Netanyahu also said Israel had not given up trying to locate the 101
Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other traditions, has died. He was 92. Tanikawa, who translated the “Peanuts” comic strip and penned the lyrics for the theme song of the animation series “Astro
Myanmar authorities have seized 1.31 million stimulant tablets in southern Myanmar's Yangon region, the state-run daily The Mirror reported on Tuesday. Acting on a tip-off, anti-narcotics police searched a passenger car in North Okkalapa township of Yangon region on Nov. 13 and seized the narcotic
Saudi Arabia banned the commercial use of symbols and logos of countries, as well as religious and sectarian symbols, in a move aimed at preventing their misuse or exploitation. The decision, issued by Saudi Arabian Minister of Commerce Dr. Majed Al Qasabi, reflects the Kingdom's commitment to pre
