A court in Belarus on Tuesday sentenced one of strongman Alexander Lukashenko's leading critics to 14 years in prison on fraud charges. Former banker Viktor Babaryko was arrested in June last year ahead of a disputed presidential election that spa...

Contact has been lost with a passenger plane carrying more than two dozen people in Russia's remote Far Eastern peninsula of Kamchatka, local officials said Tuesday. The An-26 was flying from Kamchatka's main city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to the...

Tunisian hospitals are battling to keep operating as the number of people dying of Covid-19 spikes and bodies are left in rooms because mortuaries are running at full capacity. "Some patients have died without us realising it," said Imen Fteiti a n...

Afghan authorities on Tuesday deployed hundreds of commandos and pro-government militiamen to counter the Taliban's blistering offensive in the north, that has seen more than 1,000 government troops flee into neighbouring Tajikistan. Fighting has r...

Up to 1,500 businesses around the world may have been affected by a major ransomware attack that has shuttered hundreds of Swedish supermarkets, according to the American IT company at the centre of the hack. Miami-based firm Kaseya, which provides...

Indonesia is sourcing emergency oxygen for virus patients from neighbouring Singapore and calling for help from other countries including China with the archipelago slammed by its deadliest Covid-19 wave, the government said Tuesday. Around 10,000 ...

The war in Afghanistan -- launched on October 7, 2001 in the wake of the September 11 attacks -- is the longest ever waged by the United States. Here are some key figures about the conflict with US and foreign troops having all but withdrawn from A...

The United States descended on Afghanistan and its Taliban government in 2001 in the wake of the 9/11 attacks by Al-Qaeda, which had sought sanctuary in the country. With American and NATO troops having all but departed Afghanistan after 20 years ...

America's longest war has all but ended. Launched in the wake of the September 11 attacks, the war in Afghanistan has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of Afghans along with around 2,400 US soldiers, and seen trillions of dollars squandered in...

With US and international troops all but gone from Afghanistan and the Taliban making rapid gains, a number of players are positioning themselves for the next phase of the conflict. Here is a rundown of what these powers, from the government in Kab...

With the United States military presence in Afghanistan effectively over, the country faces an uncertain future with Taliban attacks rampant and the threat of civil war looming. Fears are growing that the loss of vital American air cover -- massive...

Scents of sage, lavender and cornflowers rise from the meadows of Albania, which has seen soaring overseas demand for medicinal herbs since the coronavirus pandemic. In Sheqeras, at the foot of the Mali i Thate mountain in Albania's south, it is t...

A ban in force since 2003 on Arab citizens and residents of Israel extending their rights to their Palestinian spouses came to an end on Tuesday after lawmakers failed to extend the controversial measure. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's request to...

Kuo Hsing-chun believes her biggest rival "is myself" as Taiwan pins its hopes for an Olympic gold medal in Tokyo on the record-breaking "goddess of weightlifting". Taiwan has become a power in women's weightlifting in recent years -- Hsu Shu-ching...

For Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, the voting in November's regional elections is a second-tier priority as the government looks to make concessions to receive international sanctions relief. Maduro's own re-election in 2018 has not ever been...