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Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia reported 4,298 new Covid-19 infections as of midnight Sunday, bringing the national total to 2,658,772, according to the health ministry.Some 23 of the new cases are imported, with 4,275 being local transmissions, data released on the...

Manila: The Philippines' Department of Health (DOH) has reported 603 new Covid-19 infections on Sunday, pushing the number of confirmed cases in the Southeast Asian country to 2,834,775.The Philippines has recorded less than 1,000 cases for the 12th straight...

Beijing: The Chinese mainland reported 42 new locally transmitted Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Sunday.Of the new local cases, 30 were reported in Inner Mongolia, 10 in...

Kabul: Share of Afghan asylum seekers request to Europe has seen a major rise, European Asylum Support Office (EASO) said.According to Khaama News Agency latest statistics shows, there were 10,000 asylum applications by Afghans in August that reached 17,000...

Manila: The Philippines' Department of Health (DOH) has reported 517 new Covid-19 infections on Saturday, pushing the number of confirmed cases in the Southeast Asian country to 2,834,294.The Philippines has recorded less than 1,000 cases for the 11th straight...

Kabul: Winter is approaching and at least 3.5 million displaced people in Afghanistan are starving and also do not have access to shelter and warm clothes, said Babar Baloch, UNHCR’s spokesperson in Refugees affairs.Baloch said the families, who have...

Washington: Some 25 million people fall victims to human trafficking and forced labor every year in a global criminal enterprise that earns crime syndicates profits of about $150 billion, a senior Biden administration official said during a press briefing.“An...

Bangkok: A military jet crashed in Thailand on Friday, with the pilot being seriously injured.The F-5 fighter jet reportedly crashed into a training field in Lop Buri province at about 11:00 a.m. local time. While the pilot ejected from...

Washington: The US government has successfully set up its First Production Unit (FPU) to extend the operational life of the nation’s arsenal B61 directly dropped or “gravity bomb” nuclear weapons, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced in a...

Washington: More than 500 accounts linked to an online disinformation network primarily based in China have been removed by Facebook.According to Facebook owner Meta Platform’s report, the accounts had promoted the claims of a fake Swiss biologist named Wilson...