New Zealand has passed tougher laws to ban gang insignia in all public places, and allow courts to issue non-consorting orders and police to stop criminal gangs from associating and communicating.

Three workers at a gold mine in northern Afghanistan's Badakhshan province lost their lives due to a mudslide, Provincial Director for Information and Culture Hekmatullah Mohammadi said on Friday. The ...

The floods have impacted numerous townships across the country, including the Nay Pyi Taw Union Territory, as reported by the Xinhua news agency citing the state-run daily, The Mirror.

A female official from southwest China has been sentenced to 13 years in prison and fined one million yuan ($140,000) for ...

SARAJEVO: Border Police of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) arrested a Turkish national after he was caught smuggling 11 Syrian ...

QUITO: Two people, including an official working for Ecuador's national prison administration agency SNAI, were wounded after ...

At least three people died and 84 others were taken ill following a cholera outbreak along the shores of Lake Tanganyika in ...

SHANGHAI: At least 1,12,000 people were evacuated from China's financial hub, Shanghai as of Friday as typhoon Pulasan ...

Roads and neighbourhoods in Shanghai flooded Friday as the Chinese megacity was battered by its second typhoon in a week, with rainfall breaking local records in parts of the city.

( MENAFN - IANS) Vientiane, Sep 20 (IANS) The Lao government launched a project to protect biodiversity and reduce poverty, ...

The lethal combination of hunger, displacement and disease outbreaks in Sudan is creating "a perfect storm" for a ...