Afghanistan

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) on Wednesday welcomed the UN&s decision to temporarily exempt sanctions on senior IEA officials but called for the sanctions to be lifted permanently.

In a statement issued by the ministry of foreign affairs, the IEA stated that it considers the lifting of sanctions as its right in line with the...

The largest freshwater fish ever recorded was captured in the Mekong River in Cambodia last week by a fisherman collaborating with researchers to document the river&s biodiversity.

The four-meter endangered giant freshwater stingray (Urogymnus polylepis) was hauled from the river on June 13 before being measured and released back into the...

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan&s acting Prime Minister Hasan Akhund chaired an emergency meeting on Wednesday morning following the deadly 6.1 magnitude earthquake that hit eastern Khost in the early hours of the morning.

By mid-morning Wednesday officials had confirmed almost 300 people had been killed and a further 600 injured in...

Women are far more likely than men to suffer from long COVID, a review, published Tuesday in the journal Current Medical Research and Opinion, stated.

The study led by Shirley Sylvester, senior medical director for women&s health at Johnson - Johnson in New Brunswick, New Jersey in the US included 1.3 million patients, and found women...