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Experts say new law is China's latest and most wide-ranging legal tool to respond to foreign sanctions.

Union of Health Workers Committee closure will have 'catastrophic consequences' on Palestinian healthcare, group says.

Plane loses communication in bad weather, killing 12 people, including one of Myanmar military's most venerated monks.

Victims say gov't compensation scheme is inefficient and illogical, as calls grow for an NGO to manage the process.

At least three Palestinians killed, including two intelligence officers, in a predawn Israeli raid in Jenin, West Bank.

There were no casualties or a claim of responsibility for the attacks near Baghdad airport and Balad airbase.

Three-storey residential building in a Mumbai slum collapses on top of another building following heavy monsoon rains.

Sustaining economic growth means boosting birthrates, but young people say ‘no thanks’ to more kids.

Millions more across Tigray require urgent food and agriculture support to avert famine, analysis says.

101 East travels to Afghanistan, where even newborns have become targets of war.

Surveillance begins on app users after a trafficking gang that lured girls into the sex trade in India was busted.

‘We are losing ground in the fight against child labour,’ the United Nations Children’s Fund warns.

Have the populist movements that have swept other countries quietly passed by the East Asian nation?

World's highest single-day toll reported after Bihar revises figures to include deaths at home or private hospitals.

Popularly-lected leader has been detained since the military seized power and already faces a number of other charges.

Fire officials say eight people were seriously injured in the collapse, which happened in the city of Gwangju.

Pedro Castillo has thin lead over Keiko Fujimori after what one expert says is 'one of country's tightest elections'.

GameStop is one of a handful of stocks that have been fueled by Reddit traders who invest based on social-media buzz.

Writer E Jean Carroll had accused Trump of sexual assault and sued him for defamation when he disparaged her claim.

Critics welcome announcement as a 'victory' just months after US President Joe Biden revoked a permit for the pipeline.

US imposes sanctions on Nicaraguan officials after four potential challengers to President Daniel Ortega arrested.

Trading in so-called meme stocks took off this week, with chatter abuzz on the potential for short squeezes.

Prosecutors asked court to brand Navalny's Foundation for Fighting Corruption, network of regional offices 'extremist'.

Vaccines to be donated to 92 lower-income countries and the African Union over the next year.

The squad has carried out 1,200 missions to neutralise, defuse and destroy unexploded warheads in residential areas.

Order books for the sale are in excess of $60bn, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg News.

Prosecutors worry US Bureau of Prisons lax policies on inmate accounts encourage crime inside and out of prisons.

Hospitals are being stretched to their limits amid a rise in cases while Haiti has not yet received any vaccine doses.

Juan Remy Quignolot also accused of illegal possession of arms, criminal association, harming security and conspiracy.

Messaging app leads to hundreds of arrests in global sting operation.

Network says all hacking attempts seeking to 'access, disrupt and control' some of its platforms were thwarted.

Effort to revive landmark pact blocking Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons in return for lifting US sanctions.

Save the Children says 51 minors taken by armed groups in Cabo Delgado in 2020, a figure likely an underestimate.

With most of the votes tallied, Khurelsukh holds large lead over Sodnomzundui Erdene of the opposition Democratic Party.

Former President Donald Trump's ongoing efforts to undermine the last election threatens democracy, critics argue.

The Brood X cicadas created havoc for the president and reporters as he left the US on his first foreign trip.

UN General Assembly backs declaration that commits members to reduce AIDS-related deaths to less than 250,000 by 2025.

Banning Twitter will not solve the Nigerian government's many problems.

Husain Barakat, 48, died after contracting the virus in Jau prison, the site of a months-long coronavirus outbreak.

Gunmen on a motorcycle flee the scene after attacking police officers in Mardan district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Human Rights Watch is calling on Colombia’s government to 'take urgent measures to protect human rights'.

Chinese users are currently unable to search for popular cryptocurrency exchanges like Binance, OKEx and Huobi.

A new executive order calls for a US security review of apps that are made, supplied or controlled by China.

Another painful week for Bitcoin could signal more woes ahead for the world's biggest cryptocurrency.

Brent futures hit their highest in two years while West Texas Intermediate rose to a level unseen in almost three years.

Another 16 wounded when gunmen raided a compound of the HALO Trust charity in northern Baghlan province.

Some 82.5 percent of directors among Fortune 500 boards are white, according to the latest Board Diversity Census.

Ilir Meta, who held the largely ceremonial role, has regularly clashed with Prime Minister Edi Rama’s Socialist gov't.

Officials showed 'apparent bias' in dealings with company run by associates of Dominic Cummings, judge rules.

India's Olympics body says decision linked to public sentiment following last year's border clashes between two nations.