Myanmar junta to release nearly 6,000 prisoners in annual amnesty

Myanmar’s embattled junta government on Saturday said it would release almost 6,000 prisoners as part of an annual amnesty to...

Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol remained defiantly inside his residence resisting arrest for a third day on Thursday...

Twenty-seven migrants, including women and children, died after two boats capsized off central Tunisia, with 83 people rescued, a civil...

India and Pakistan on Wednesday exchanged, through diplomatic channels, simultaneously in New Delhi and Islamabad, the lists of civilian prisoners...

India’s meteorological department said Wednesday that 2024 was the hottest year since 1901, with sizzling temperatures in the world’s most...

Beijing insisted on Tuesday that it had shared information on Covid-19 “without holding anything back”, after the World Health Organization...

Crowds will marvel at fireworks and toast champagne to greet 2025 on Tuesday, waving goodbye to a year that brought...

Climate change sparked a trail of extreme weather and record heat in 2024, the United Nations said on Monday, urging...

China will take measures to promote high-quality growth in its data industry, the country’s top economic planner announced on Monday....

Lhasa, the capital of southwest China’s Xizang Autonomous Region, has completed 177,200 mu (about 11,813 hectares) of afforestation in the...

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