Gabrielle Reyes

Flooding in southwest China's Sichuan province in recent daysdisplaced about 110,000 people as of Sunday, Chinese government officials said.

China wants to serve as "a mediator, or a 'guarantor of security'" on the Afghanistan issue, China's state-run Global Times reported on Sunday, in response to the Taliban's growing dominance of most of the country.

A spokesman for the Taliban terror group implied to Afghanistan's Tolo News on Monday the jihadist organization "maintains ties with al Qaeda and other terrorist groups."

The Taliban terror group captured Islam Qala, a strategic border town linking Afghanistan with Iran, on Thursday, the BBC reported on Friday.

A delegation of the Taliban terror group met with representatives of the Russian foreign ministry in Moscow, where one delegate claimed the Taliban currently controls about "85 percent of Afghanistan's territory," Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported Friday.

Hong Kong health officials on Thursdayextended most Chinese coronavirus social distancing restrictions in the city for an additional two weeks even though the metropolis has failed to record a single locally transmitted case of the disease since June 7, the Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP)

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China's ruling Communist Party celebrated members of "Gen Z," or people born between1997-2012, on Thursday, praising the youthful generation as the most willing to participate in the party's "Red Tourism," which promotes Communist propaganda across China.

Tajikistan asked the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) — a Russian-led military alliance of former Soviet republics — for help in securing its border with Afghanistan on Wednesday citing advances by the Taliban terror group following a Western troop withdrawal from Kabul.

Technodinamika, a Russian state-owned aviation company contracted by Russia’s defense ministry to develop canine parachutes, confirmed Tuesday the project will reach a final stage of completion by the end of 2021, the Moscow Times reported Wednesday.

Indian Health Minister Harsh Vardhan resigned Wednesday ahead of a reported "cabinet reshuffle" allegedly planned by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India's NDTV reported.

China's Hubei province and its capital, Wuhan — the origin location of the Chinese coronavirus — are currently "heavily burdened with imported cases" of the disease, China's state-run Global Times reported on Wednesday.

Chinese internet censors are deleting online forums promoting the millennial phenomenon known as "lying flat," in which young Chinese people quit their jobs to opt out of an overworked lifestyle the Chinese Communist Party has pushed in recent years, the Hindustan Times reported Tuesday.

A Chinese-owned company plans to push forward a coal mining project in western Zimbabwe despite protests by local residents that the activity threatens to contaminate their natural water supply, Voice of America (VOA) reportedMonday.

The government of Muslim-majority Indonesia on Monday called for a ban on the video game Fortniteafter allegations that a recent software update allows players to desecrate a cube representing a holy Islamic site.

Unidentified gunmen abducted a one-year-old child along with an unknown number of children from the staff quarters of a hospital in northern Nigeria on Sunday, theBBC reported.

Zimbabwe's government on Sunday rejected an African Union donation of three million doses of the Chinese coronavirus vaccine made by Johnson & Johnson "citing lack of storage facilities" for the shots, the online newspaper New Zimbabwe reported on Monday.

Chinese government authorities locked down the southern city of Ruili, located along China's border with Myanmar, on Monday to contain a new cluster of Chinese coronavirus infections detected in the municipality over the weekend, the state-run Global Times reported.

Russia plans to deploy about 600 additional military personnel to the Central African Republic (CAR) in the near future, the Turkish newspaper Yeni Safak reported Thursday.

The U.S. State Department on Thursday added Turkey to a list of countries implicated in the recruitment of child soldiers, India's WION news site reported on Friday.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte escalated an ongoing war of words againstPhilippine Senator Manny Pacquiao on Thursday, denouncing the legendary boxer as "a shit" public servant and falsely claiming that the still-active fighter bowed out of his upcoming boxing match in August because he

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