Pakistan says it has administered 155 million COVID-19 vaccine doses as of Friday, fully vaccinating 70 million people, or 30% of the country’s total population, since launching the inoculation drive in February
Afghanistan’s former president said he had no choice but to abruptly leave Kabul as the Taliban closed in and denied an agreement was in the works for a peaceful takeover, disputing the accounts of former Afghan and U.S. officials
Volunteers are busy preparing floats for the annual Tournament of Roses procession, which has been held in the United States since 1890. The flower-decked parade entrants, will light up the streets of Pasadena, California, in a blaze of colour on New Year’s Day
A Paris-based press freedom group has called for the release of award-winning citizen journalist Zhang Zhan, whose family says she is close to death in Shanghai Women’s Prison
North Korea is about to face the third year under a COVID-19 economic embargo. The country’s economy is suffering as a result of the pandemic measures, which appear to be unsustainable
In late 2020, a conflict between the Ethiopian Federal government and a local military erupted into a civil war, forcing two million people to evacuate their homes and putting hundreds of thousands in famine-like conditions
The work of journalists is becoming more dangerous, with record numbers detained for their coverage, and dozens killed each year
Tens of thousands of squatters were evicted just before the holidays to make way for a Chinese-backed expressway, according to human rights groups in Kenya
Swedish-Kenyan electric vehicle company, to deploy 3,000 electric motorcycles across Kenya and the surrounding region by 2022
Independent rights groups claim that democratic institutions have been eroding in various Western countries in recent years, including the United States