The United Arab Emirates gave the green light for fuel loading at its Barakah nuclear power plant, the first in the Arab world, built by a Korean-led consortium at a cost of
Three men armed with knives robbed a delivery truck driver of toilet paper worth more than HK$1,000 in Hong Kong's Mong Kok district as coronavirus-driven panic buying emptied supermarket shelves across the
Japan's GDP fell 1.6% in the fourth quarter of 2019, its steepest quarterly decline since 2014, after an increase in the consumption tax from 8% to 10% suppressed household spending. The contraction
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases on the Diamond Princess cruise ship quarantined near Yokohama rose to 355, Japanese health officials announced Sunday, making the ship the largest coronavirus cluster outside mainland
India's Supreme Court scheduled a hearing on a petition demanding the removal of protesters blocking a road at Shaheen Bagh in Delhi, where demonstrators have staged a sit-in for more than two
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh publicly commended 9th-grade student Amandeep Kaur for saving four children by breaking a window of a burning private school van in Longowal, Sangrur district. The Chief Minister
A 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck southern Iran on Sunday afternoon, with its epicenter located 13 kilometers deep in the Gulf between the mainland and the island of Qeshm, 49 kilometers from Bandar Abbas.
Multiple rockets struck near the US Embassy in Baghdad's Green Zone on the night of Saturday to Sunday, triggering sirens and an aerial survey of the area, an American military source told
Vietnam quarantined a commune of around 10,000 people near Hanoi for 20 days after five cases of Covid-19 were detected in Vinh Phuc province, the country's first municipal quarantine since the outbreak
Indonesia's Mount Merapi, one of the country's most active volcanoes, erupted on Thursday, sending incandescent lava and a plume of smoke more than 2,000 meters into the sky near the cultural capital
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