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The six-month world fair, featuring exhibitions by 192 countries, is expected to attract more than 20 million international visitors when it opens on October 1 after a year's delay.

More than 5.7 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered globally, but only 2% of them in Africa, said World Health Organization (WHO) chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Tuesday.

New local coronavirus infections have more than doubled in China’s southeastern province of Fujian, which is battling the country’s latest coronavirus outbreak.

The rise in hate crimes against people of Asian and Pacific Island heritage in the United States since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, inspired artist Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya to produce vibrant artworks featuring people of Asian heritage.

A video analysis by New York Times shows the United States may have 'mistakenly' targeted an aid worker rather than ISIL (ISIS) fighters in its final drone attack in...

Nearly 20 years after the United States’ invasion of Afghanistan, the cost of its global "war on terror" stands at $8 trillion and 900,000 deaths, according to a new report from the Costs of War project at Brown University.

Suicide prevention must be prioritized after 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Americas office of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned ahead of World Suicide Prevention Day, commemorated annually on 10 September.

Senior Pakistani journalist Rahimullah Yusufzai passed away on Thursday in Peshawar after a prolonged illness. His son Arshad Yusufzai, in a tweet, said his father breathed his last after...

The rightwing Hindu groups have sent death threats to scholars and activists who are the participants of an academic conference in the US addressing Hindu nationalism.

Over the last two days, the Taliban detained and later released at least 14 journalists covering protests in Kabul, the capital, against the group, according to various news reports. At least six of these journalists were subject to violence during their arrests or detention.

Speaking from the White House on August 31, President Joe Biden lied to the people of the U.S. and to the world: "Last night in Kabul, the United States ended 20 years of war in Afghanistan—the longest war in American history." The U.S. war on Afghanistan did not end—it has only adapted to technological advances and morphed into a war that will be more politically sustainable, one more intractable and more easily exportable.

Mental health and psychosocial support must be seen as integral to all humanitarian, peacebuilding and development programmes across the UN, the Secretary-General said on Wednesday.