Afghanistan

Nearly 190,000 Afghan refugees have returned home from Iran over the past six months, officials in Nimroz province said.

In a voice message on Monday, Sadiqullah Nasrat, head of the provincial department of Refugees and Repatriation, said the refugees included single returnees and families.

&The refugees total 188,178, including single people...

Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan&s (IEA) supreme leader Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada met judges in Kandahar and ordered them to carefully investigate cases of robbery, kidnapping and sedition and to implement Hudud if Sharia conditions are fulfilled.

Hudud punishment includes amputation, flogging and the death penalty.

The meeting took place in...

Chinese software developer Tang Huajun loves playing with his two-year-old in their apartment on the outskirts of Beijing but he said he is unlikely to have another child.

Such decisions by countless people like Tang will determine the course not only of China&s population but that of the world, which the United Nations says is projected to...

Natasa Pirc Musar, a lawyer, won the second round of Slovenia&s presidential election on Sunday and will become its first female head of state, preliminary results showed, Reuters reported.

Pirc Musar, 54, won 53.86 percent of votes in the runoff, while her rival, right-wing politician and former foreign minister Andze Logar, won 46.14...