Afghanistan

Taiwan will end its mandatory COVID-19 quarantine for arrivals from Oct. 13 and welcome tourists back, the government said on Thursday, completing a major step on its plan to re-open to the outside world, Reuters reported.

Taiwan had kept some of its entry and quarantine rules in place as large parts of the rest of Asia relaxed or lifted them...

A Chinese official on Wednesday urged the international community to take an &objective stance& over the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), saying social order in the country is gradually being restored.

In a regular press briefing, Wang Wenbin, spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, also acknowledged that Afghanistan right...

A 30-year-old man from Afghanistan died in the UK on Sunday morning after falling from a 16th floor window while trying to escape a fire in the apartment where he was living.

The deceased was named by Bristol authorities on Wednesday. He was Abdul Jabar Oryakhel, who had only been in the UK in February.

Oryakhel fled the country after the collapse...

Glaciers in Switzerland melted at record rates in 2022, according to a report released Wednesday by the Swiss Glacier Monitoring Network, which labeled it a &disastrous year.&

The new study indicates that about .71 cubic miles of ice has melted, accounting for over 6% of the glacial volume. Before this year, ice loss percentages as...