Afghanistan

Fifty-three people died when a housing block collapsed in the Chinese city of Changsha last week, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Friday after days of rescue efforts.

Rescuers have pulled 10 survivors from the rubble of the eight-storey &self-built& house in Hunan province that collapsed on April 29, according to CCTV.

The cause of...

Millions of Afghans are now experiencing intense food shortages following the collapse of the former government and Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) takeover in August.

As Muslims around the world celebrated Eid-Uk-Fitr, experts say that for most Afghans, it was simply another day of struggle to put food on the table.

According to the United...

The official death toll from the first two years of the coronavirus pandemic is about 5.4 million.

But according to a new World Health Organization report, the actual number is around three times higher than that.

The U.N. body said on Thursday there were 14.9 million excess deaths associated with COVID-19 by the end of 2021.

Excess deaths are the...

The United States is giving Ukraine 16 Mi-17 helicopters that Washington had procured for the former Afghanistan government, a US watchdog agency said Wednesday.

According to the latest Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) report, the US Department of Defense (DOD) notified Congress in January that it intended to give...