The coronavirus pandemic is forcing India's children out of school and into farms and factories to work, worsening a child-labor problem that was already one of the direst in the … Click to Continue »
Afghanistan's government will release hardened Taliban prisoners to clear the final hurdle for direct peace talks with the insurgent group and end the 19-year war. President Ashraf Ghani on Sunday … Click to Continue »
The nearly 3,000 tons of highly flammable ammonium nitrate that caused last week's disastrous explosion in Lebanon didn't languish forgotten in the years after an alarm was first raised. A … Click to Continue »
The Air India Express jet that overshot the runway on Friday, killing at least 18 people, had touched down too far down the airstrip, the chief of India's aviation regulator … Click to Continue »
The governments of the U.S., U.K., Australia, Canada and New Zealand said they are "gravely concerned" by the Hong Kong government's decision to postpone legislative elections and bar pro-democracy candidates … Click to Continue »
Australia had its deadliest pandemic day, with 17 COVID-19 fatalities in the state of Victoria. The number of new cases climbed by 394 taking the state total to 14,659, Premier … Click to Continue »
World leaders pledged hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to help support Lebanon and rebuild Beirut after the deadly blasts last week that destroyed a huge swathe of the … Click to Continue »
