Kabul, The Taliban government in Afghanistan have urged civilians to handover government property, including weapons, as house-to-house searches continued in Kabul and neighbouring provinces, the media reported.

In a statement, Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said to prevent further continuation of the ongoing

New Delhi,  US and NATO officials monitoring the war in Ukraine noticed a pronounced shift earlier this week in Russias strategy, namely that Moscow now appears poised to "bombard cities into submission" which could inflict significant civilian casualties, CNN reported.

"The heavier weapon

New Delhi,  The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is in danger of releasing radioactive dust to the entire Ukraine, said Slavutych Mayor Yuriy Fomichev.

He recalled that Chernobyl was captured on the first day of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

He noted that through Chernobyl there was a rea

Doha, The discovery of the oldest known natural pearl bead in Qatar has yet again shone the spotlight on the pearl-diving history of the peninsular country that is on its toes as the host of the upcoming FIFA 2022 World Cup to be played about eight months later.

A local excavation mission led by Ferhan Sakal, Head of E

Seoul, More than 6,000 people have been evacuated their homes as firefighters battle a massive wildfire in South Korea's eastern coastal areas on Saturday.

The fire burned an estimated 21,179 acres of woodland in Uljin, about 330 km southeast of Seoul, and its neighbouring city of Samcheok as of Saturday after

Washington, Cases of a highly transmissible Omicron subvariant are doubling in the US every week, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The BA.2 variant was responsible for 8.3 per cent of the Covid infections in the country in the week ending February 26, Xinhua n

Moscow, Russia on Saturday declared a temporary ceasefire in the two southern Ukrainian cities of Mariupol and Volnovakha to facilitate the evacuation of civilians via humanitarian corridors, the Defence Ministry in Moscow announced.

The ceasefire went into effect from 10 a.m. (about 1.30 p.m. IST), reports Xinhua

New Delhi, Russia announced that a high-precision weapon strike destroyed a warehouse with Javelin and NLAW missile systems in Ukraine's Zhytomyr city.

"Over the past 24 hours, an ammunition depot on the territory of the military unit of Zhitomir, where Javelin and NLAW anti-tank missile systems were stor

New Delhi,  The first week of Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion into Ukraine has not gone to plan, with his country's military admitting the deaths of 500 soldiers (Ukrainian estimates are higher) and western sactions dealing a body blow to the Russian economy that will only grow worse in the coming w

Gaza, The Palestinian Hamas has announced its rejection to Australia's decision of listing the movement as a terrorist group.

In a press statement sent to Xinhua news agency, Hamas said that it condemns the Australian government's decision, and that all the accusations against the movement "are false,