Kuwait City, A draft expat quota bill in Kuwait could result in 800,000 Indians forced to leave the Gulf state, a media report said

According to the bill, which has been deemed constitutional by Kuwait's National Assembly's legal and legislative committee, Indians should not exceed 15 per cent of the popul

Seoul, A Seoul court on Monday denied an extradition request by the US for a South Korean criminal who ran one of the world's biggest child porn sites.

The Seoul High Court said it decided to reject the request to extradite Son Jong-woo, the operator of Welcome to Video, which ran on the darknet, inaccessible

Tehran, A new and more advanced structure will be built at Iran's Natanz nuclear facility to replace the one damaged in a recent fire "incident", a spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) said on Monday.

"Necessary arrangements have been made to rebuild the damaged shed at Sh

Tokyo, Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike has secured a second term in office following a resounding victory in the Japanese capital's gubernatorial election, the media reported on Monday.

The 67-year-old incumbent, who entered the race with overwhelming support from both ruling and opposition parties, was pitted aga

Los Angeles, A wildfire spreading rapidly through the rural area of Santa Clarita, a US city 53 km northeast of Los Angeles, has prompted evacuations and the full closure of a freeway.

The fire, dubbed Soledad Fire, was initially reported at around 4 p.m. on Sunday and estimated at roughly five acres, reports Xinh

Beijing,  Authorities in China have stepped up precautions after suspected bubonic plague cases were reported in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, the media reported on Monday.

According to China's state-run Global Times newspaper, the first case was reported as suspected bubonic plague on Saturd

Melbourne, The border between Australia's two most populous states, Victoria and New South Wales (NSW), will close from Wednesday onwards after a spike in the number of COVID-19 cases in Melbourne, it was announced on Monday.

The outbreak in Victoria's capital has seen hundreds of cases in the past two wee

Tokyo, Japan is bracing for more heavy rain after a weekend of flooding left at least 37 people dead, with 13 others reported missing in the island of Kyushu, officials said on Monday.

The prefectures of Kumamoto and Kagoshima have been worst hit, with hundreds of thousands of people advised to evacuate, reports t

San Francisco, Google on Monday launched a free training programme for small-to-medium sized news publishers that would be available first in Europe and will roll out to more regions in the coming months.

Called the Digital Growth Programme under the Google News Initiative (GNI), it has been created to help establ

London, The UK on Monday is set to impose sanctions independently for the first time on dozens of individuals accused of human rights abuses around the world.

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab will launch the government's new post-Brexit sanctions regime by naming the first violators to have their assets fro