Afghanistan

Taiwan Health Minister Chen Shih-chung has contracted COVID-19, and is feeling fine and isolating at home, the government said on Sunday.

Taiwan has been dealing with a surge of COVID-19 cases since the start of the year, driven by the more infectious Omicron variant, though numbers are beginning to level off.

Taiwan&s Central Epidemic Command...

McDonald&s (MCD.N) restaurants flung open their doors in Moscow once again on Sunday under new Russian ownership and a new name: Vkusno - tochka, which translates as &Tasty and that&s it&, Reuters reported.

The new dawn for Russia&s fast-food scene will initially see 15 rebranded restaurants open in and around the...

Local officials in Kunar province say an explosion in Asadabad, the provincial capital, has killed one person and injured four others.

Malawi Abdulhaq Haqqani, the provincial police chief said the blast took place on Sunday at around 9:00 AM.

The device used was an IED which was attended to a police Ranger vehicle.

According to the police chief, the...

In a separate farewell meetings with Sirajuddin Haqqani and former chairman of the reconciliation council Abdullah Abdullah, the outgoing UN Special Representative for Afghanistan, Deborah Lyons, emphasized the importance of fighting terrorism in Afghanistan.

In a series of tweets Saturday night Lyons said that in a meeting with Sirajuddin Haqqani,...