Beijing, One of the 21 miners who were trapped in a flooded coal mine in China's Shanxi province was lifted out of the shaft safely on Friday, while rescue operations are underway for the remaining workers, local officials said.

The accident took place at around 11 p.m. Wednesday at the coal mine in Duxigou vi

Tokyo, Three people were killed and 28 others severely injured after a fire broke out in a building in Japan's Osaka prefecture on Friday, with the police suspecting arson as the cause of the blaze.

Of the 28 injured, 17 men and 10 women were in cardiopulmonary arrest, according to firefighters.

Khartoum, Flooding in South Sudan has affected 835,000 people leading to an increasingrisk of more displacements, further violence, endangering food security, and disrupting livelihoods, the UN said.

The people in the country have been affected by the flooding since May, said the UN Office for the Coordination of

New Delhi, The worsening macroeconomic fundamentals and aggravating sentiments have played havoc with three major markets of Pakistan's economy, whereby they are not ready to buy the government-sponsored narrative on the economic front, The News reported.

Alarmingly, three markets, including the stock market,

New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) A video showing Balochistan Chief Minister Abdul Quddus Bizenjo purportedly distributing cash among the protesters at the Gwadar sit-in that was called off on Thursday has gone viral on social media, Friday Times reported.

Journalist Absar Alam asked Maulana Hidayat-ur-Rehman, who has

New Delhi, After rockets were fired, local residents have claimed that Pakistani forces want to take more land of Afghanistan and get even closer to the Kunar river, Khaama Press reported.

A spokesperson of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, Bilal Karimi, said that Pakistani forces on Thursday fired rockets on th

New Delhi,  A company that was once one of China's biggest property developers says it has "lost contact" with a wealth manager that has $313m of its money, BBC reported.

China Fortune Land Development says British Virgin Islands-registered China Create Capital was supposed to have invested

New Delhi,  Former Afghan National Security Adviser Hamdullah Mohib has said ex-President Ashraf Ghani fled the country to save his life and rescue himself from being hanged, Tolo News reported.

He made the remarks in an interview with Radio Liberty.

According to Mohib, the fall of the Afg

Seoul, South Korea's new Covid-19 cases stayed above 7,000 for the fourth consecutive day on Saturday and critical cases surged to a record high as the government reimposed restrictions to contain the fast spread of the virus.

The country added 7,314 more Covid-19 cases, including 7,284 local infections, bring

Geneva, Closing of schools across the world should be the last resort in the fight against the fast-spreading Omicron Covid-19 variant, outgoing Unicef Executive Director Henrietta Fore said.

"Nationwide school closures should be avoided whenever possible," Xinhua news agency quoted Fore as saying in a s