The Chinese-owned short-video platform has ’’unlawfully collected and retained children’s personal information,’’ according to the Justice Department

The government of Bangladesh declared an indefinite nationwide curfew starting at 6 p.m. (1200 GMT) on Sunday, the first time it has taken such a step during the current protests that began last month.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said India has become a food surplus country and is working to provide solutions for global food and nutritional security.

Faced with a declining birth rate and ageing population, China is experiencing a shortage of schoolchildren. As a result, multiple provinces are scaling back teacher hiring, according to a report in South China Morning Post.

The US embassy in Beirut has urged its citizens to leave Lebanon on “any ticket available”, amid soaring tensions in the Middle East.

Stressing the use of digitisation for rapid development, the President of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly, Dennis Francis, lavished praise on India for its work in this direction, which has lifted 800 million out of poverty in the last 5-

Italian boxer Angela Carini, who abandoned her Olympic bout against Algeria’s Imane Khelif inside 46 seconds, says she ’’wants to apologise’’ to her opponent for how she handled the moments after the fight.

China’s economic downturn has significantly impacted luxury brands, following declines in the housing sector, stock market, and job market. For the first time, leading global retailers are publicly attributing their sales drops to China.

Some American legislators have proposed a bipartisan legislative bill that will require United States-listed firms to disclose their assets and businesses in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and estimate the economic losses they will suffer if

Turkish air pistol shooter Yusuf Dikec has become the hottest meme on social media after winning the silver medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

KV Subramanian, Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and former Chief Economic Advisor of India, said on Thursday that India could become a USD 55 trillion economy by 2047 if it maintains an 8 per cent annual growth rate.

Hamas’s top political leader Ismail Haniyeh has been killed in Iran, the group has confirmed.

Gunfire continued to ring out on Sunday in the volatile district bordering Afgha­nistan, despite authorities’ claims of having brokered a ceasefire between two feuding tribes in Kurram.

Security forces in Venezuela have fired tear gas and rubber bullets against people protesting over Sunday’s disputed election result.

Over the past 15 years, China has come to dominate the global market for solar energy.

Police took a suspect into custody after at least eight people were stabbed in the British seaside town of Southport.

One person is dead and at least six others are injured after shots were fired at a large gathering in Rochester, New York, on Sunday evening.

China “imposes its authoritarianism” on Taiwan, according to US filmmaker Garret Clarke, who has made a documentary on why the self-governing island country cannot use its name to compete in major international sports events.

A rocket attack on a football ground in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights killed 12 people including children on Saturday, Israeli authorities said, blaming Hezbollah and vowing to inflict a heavy price on the Iran-backed Lebanese group.

Olympic organisers have issued a ’’deep apology’’ after South Korea’s athletes were mistakenly introduced as North Korea at the opening ceremony in Paris.

In a bold move, the U.S. State Department has declared its intention to enforce visa restrictions on Chinese officials implicated in the oppression of religious and ethnic minorities within China.

An international human rights watchdog called upon the Chinese authorities on Tuesday for the illegal imprisonment and further torture of Ilham Tohti, a renowned Uyghur activist and intellectual, Amnesty International said in a statement.

Nippon Steel (5401.T), opens new tab will dissolve its joint venture with China’s Baoshan Iron & Steel (600019.SS), opens new tab, it said on Tuesday, ending two decades of cooperation when their existing shareholders’ agreement expires at the en

A tanker carrying close to 1.5 million litres of industrial fuel has capsized and sank off the Philippine capital on Thursday, causing an oil spill, officials say.

Pakistan’s Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Hafiz Naeemur Rahman on Sunday warned against new military operations and said that the bureaucracy must mend their ways and acknowledge their failures, Geo News reported, quoting The News.

A court in the United Arab Emirates has handed 57 Bangladeshis long prison terms for holding protests in the Gulf state against their own country’s government.

China has issued controversial judicial guidelines targeting ’’die-hard’’ supporters of Taiwanese independence, urging them to renounce their stance or face criminal penalties.

Health authorities in India’s Kerala state have issued an alert after a 14-year-old boy died of the Nipah virus.

ByteDance, the owner of global hit short video platform TikTok, has lost a legal challenge that sought to reverse a European Union decision stating that the firm should not favour its own service over rivals.

MUMBAI: Chandrayaan-3, whose success made India the world’s first country to have landed near the lunar South Pole, has been awarded the World Space Award by the International Astronautical Federation.