:(Xinhua) — India’s financial capital Mumbai has banned new year parties on new year’s eve on Friday over concerns of rising COVID-19 cases. The municipal...

(AFP) – India’s tiger conservation body said 126 of the endangered big cats died in 2021, the highest toll since it began compiling data...

(AFP) – Saudi Arabia’s King Salman urged arch-rival Iran on Thursday to end its “negative behaviour” in the region, after Riyadh accused Tehran of...

– Omicron still poses “very high” risk and could overwhelm healthcare systems, the WHO warned on Wednesday, as the highly transmissible coronavirus variant fuelled...

Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas made a rare visit to Israel Tuesday for talks with Defence Minister Benny Gantz, that the defence ministry said focused...

Hans Grundberg, the special envoy of the UN secretary-general for Yemen, said on Tuesday that escalating violence in the country has been “among the...

Israel will lift the travel ban to 55 countries, the Ministry of Health said in a statement on Tuesday. The ease, subject to the approval...

With two new metro lines set to go into operation on Dec. 30, the total length of Shanghai’s metro network will extend to 831...

The death toll from heavy rains lashing the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia rose to 20 on Monday, with 358 people injured, according to...

– Hundreds of thousands more people were ordered to stay home in northern China Tuesday, joining millions under strict lockdown as authorities raced to...