Riyadh,  Saudi Arabia announced the founding of an aircraft leasing company named AviLease, as a way to diversify the kingdom's oil-reliant economy.

Sponsored by the Public Investment Fund (PIF), a sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia, AviLease will focus on growing through purchase-and-leaseback de

Seoul,  Heavy rain that pounded South Korea this week have killed at least three people, and flooded houses and farmland nationwide, officials said on Friday.

A man in his 90s was killed when the roof of his house collapsed in the central city of Gongju on Thursday, while a construction worker drowned in

Washington,  In a second such incident this week, a woman was gored by a bull bison in Yellowstone National Park, one of the largest and best-known national parks in the US, officials said.

The 71-year-old woman from Pennsylvania was gored by the bull bison near Storm Point at Yellowstone Lake on Wednesd

Beijing,  Trade between the Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland has surged more than sixfold in 25 years, official data showed.

From 1997 to 2021, the value of trade increased 6.1 times from $50.77 billion to $360.33 billion, an average annual hike of 8.5 per cent, Xinhua news agency quoted China's Mi

United Nations,  The UN Security Council has renewed the sanctions imposed on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Adopting resolution 2641 by a vote of 10 in favour to none against with five abstentions, the Council on Thursday night renewed its arms embargo measures, travel ban and asset freezes

Washington, A shooting in the US city of Newark has left nine people injured, multiple media outlets reported.

The shooting on Thursday took place on the 200 block of Clinton Place at around 6.20 p.m., Xinhua news agency quoted the reports as saying citing police.

The victims, including a juven

Beijing,  China's meteorological authority on Friday renewed an alert for Chaba, the third typhoon of the year, as it was gaining strength and moving towards Guangdong and Hainan provinces.

At 8 a.m. Friday, the Hainan meteorological department detected that Chaba was about 250 km northeast of Yongxi

Seoul,   South Korea's National Human Rights Commission on Friday installed its first new vice minister-level officer in charge of human rights issues in the military.

Park Chan-woon, who is a member of the state human rights watchdog, has been named by the president as the first officer to look

Sydney,  Australia's Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) on Friday warned of heavy rainfall across the state of New South Wales (NSW) from Saturday, with potential to cause major flooding into next week.

Senior meteorologist Dean Narramore told the national broadcaster ABC that the downpour would be focused

Hong Kong,  Critics think that Beijing has shattered this promise in recent years with a restrictive national security law and electoral reforms which allow only "patriots" to run for Hong Kong's leadership, BBC reported.

The 2020 law followed massive pro-democracy protests in 2019, which i