Afghanistan

Economists have vehemently opposed Washington&s decision to establish the Afghan Fund and transfer $3.5 billion of Afghanistan&s frozen assets into a Swiss account.

The economists said Monday the people appointed to manage the fund do not have the expertise to do so and collectively called for Afghanistan foreign reserves to be returned...

Eight big cats from Namibia made the long trek Saturday in a chartered cargo flight to the northern Indian city of Gwalior, as part of an ambitious and hotly contested plan to reintroduce cheetahs to the South Asian country, AP reported.

From Gwalior they were moved to their new home: a sprawling national park in the heart of India where scientists...

U.S. President Joe Biden said in an interview aired on Sunday that &the pandemic is over,& even though the country continues to grapple with coronavirus infections that kill hundreds of Americans daily, Reuters reported.

ASIA-PACIFIC

The southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu will resume production and life &in an orderly...

A top Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) official, Haji Bashir Noorzai, has been released after almost 20 years in Guantanamo Bay. He arrived in Kabul on Monday.

He was one of the last Afghans detained at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, according to sources.

According to the IEA&s foreign minister, the US freed the official on Monday...