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Wellington (New Zealand), October 17: New Zealand recorded 14,311 new community cases of COVID-19 and 34 more deaths from the pandemic over the past week,...

Seoul (South Korea), October 17: South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol's approval rating rose 1.1 percentage points over the week to 33.1 percent last week, a...

Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), October 17: Malaysia reported 1,712 new COVID-19 infections as of midnight Sunday, bringing the national total to 4,867,192, according to the health...

Yangon (Myanmar), October 17: Myanmar confirmed 255 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the tally to 628,577, according to the Ministry...

Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), October 17: State-run Tanzania Coffee Board (TCB) said Sunday that it would distribute 3 million Robusta coffee seedlings to farmers free...

Tehran (Iran), October 17: Iranian Petroleum Minister Javad Owji said on Sunday that Iran has started refining its crude oil in Venezuela, SHANA news agency...

Ankara (Turkey), October 17: Türkiye's endorsement of Russia's proposal to establish a natural gas distribution center in the country reflects its ambition to become an...

Tehran (Iran), October 17: The Iranian foreign ministry said on Sunday that U.S. President Joe Biden meddled in Iran's "state matters" by supporting "riots" in...

TEHRAN (Iran), October 17: An Iranian commander said on Sunday that Iran has increased the operational range of the Bavar-373 surface-to-air missile defense system to...

Kampala (Uganda), October 17: Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Saturday announced a decision to put the Ebola-affected central Ugandan districts of Mubende and Kassanda on...

Kigali (Rwanda), October 17: The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) affirmed working in partnership with national parliaments to push forward gender equality and responsive legislation.

Colombo (Sri Lanka), October 16: Three people have died and over 55,000 people from 13,902 families have been affected by floods and landslides in Sri...

Ankara (Turkey), October 16: The Death toll in an underground coal mine explosion in northern Türkiye rose to 41, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said...

Tokyo (Japan), October 16: A total of 3,141 companies went bankrupt in the April-September period, up 6.9 percent year on year, a local credit research...

Seoul (South Korea), October 16: President Yoon Suk-yeol on Sunday instructed officials to make efforts to ensure Kakao Corp. and Naver Corp. can quickly resume...

Accra (Ghana) [India], October 16: Theodora Adomako-Adjei, the national coordinator of Ghana's handwashing campaign, urged sustained hand hygiene among the public to prevent the spread...

Washington/ Seoul (US/ South Korea), October 16: South Korean Finance Minister Choo Kyung-ho highlighted the importance of keeping "consistency" between financial and monetary policies as...

Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), October 16: Malaysia reported 2,023 new COVID-19 infections as of midnight Saturday, bringing the national total to 4,865,480, according to the health...

Canberra (Australia), October 16: The Australian Defence Force (ADF) has been deployed to aid in the response to catastrophic flooding in the country's second most...

Seoul (South Korea), October 16: South Korea's new COVID-19 cases stayed below 30,000 for the fourth consecutive day Sunday as infections have been on a...

Yangon (Myanmar), October 16: Myanmar confirmed 325 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the tally to 628,322, according to the Ministry...

Windhoek (Namibia), October 16: Namibia has been hit by another outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in the Zambezi region, which is located in the extreme...

Windhoek (Namibia), October 1: "I have been weaving baskets since my 20s. Talent alone could not translate into business success due to a lack of...

Moscow (Russia), October 16: Russia registered 13,384 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking the nationwide tally to 21,292,200, the official monitoring and...

Tehran (Iran), October 16: The spokesman of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) said on Saturday that uranium enrichment constitutes only part of Iran's...

Beirut [Lebanon], October 15: Twenty Lebanese entrepreneurs won an UN-organized competition that granted them a cash prize for launching businesses in disadvantaged regions of the...

Aden [Yemen], October 15: With a touch of deep sadness in his voice, Yemeni Mahmoud Abdul-Aziz Faqih who could barely mention the loss of his...