Afghanistan

Shanghai has discovered a COVID-19 case involving a new subvariant Omicron BA.5.2.1, an official told a briefing on Sunday, signalling the complications China faces to keep up with new mutations as it pursues its &zero-COVID& policy.

The case, found in the financial district of Pudong on July 8, was linked with a case from overseas,...

Health officials in Helmand province said Sunday that 20 people died in the past 24 hours of cholera and a further 120 have been infected. 

Citing Helmand health officials, Bakhtar News Agency reported the cholera outbreak was reported in Baghran district. 

Mobile health teams have been sent from the provincial capital to the ...

A number of Kabul University students raised their concerns on Sunday and said in addition to a shortage of lecturers and professors, they also have very little purified drinking water and that hostel accommodation is overcrowded.

The students say that many professors have left the country and those who are now teaching do not all have the...

Sri Lanka&s president and prime minister agreed to resign Saturday after protesters stormed both officials& homes and set fire to one of the buildings in a rage over the nation&s severe economic crisis.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said he will leave office once a new government is in place, and hours later the speaker of...