A mountain resort in Vietnam has opened the Bach Long suspension bridge, a bridge with a bottom made of glass over a gorge 492 feet below.
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The US Treasury said Wednesday it was freezing the assets of members of an international network for violating oil sanctions on Tehran by selling millions of dollars' worth of Iranian petrochemical products to East Asia.
Two health officials in southern China have been suspended for refusing to investigate the case of a baby who was taken away more than 30 years ago because his parents had breached the one-child policy by having seven children. On Friday, the public health bureau in Quanzhou county, Guangxi, triggered a public outcry when they told parents Tang Yueying and Deng Zhensheng that their petition for an investigation would not be granted and dismissed their concerns that the boy had been trafficked. “
Singapore hanged two drug traffickers Thursday in what campaigners condemned as a "shameful and inhuman punishment", taking to four the number of executions in the city-state since March.
Emergency services at the scene of a deadly avalanche in the Italian Dolomites recovered what body parts they could on Tuesday, with the dangers of venturing under the partially collapsed glacier slowing the search.
Some of government’s content removal orders reportedly ‘fell short of requirement’
Hundreds of thousands of hajj pilgrims began streaming out of Mecca Thursday ahead of the highlight of the annual rites, which have attracted huge crowds despite the continuing pandemic and unforgiving heat.
As once relatively wealthy Sri Lanka suffers a dire economic crisis with shortages of everything from medicines to gas, people are returning to cooking with firewood.
England beat India by seven wickets as they completed a record run chase to win the Covid-delayed fifth Test at Edgbaston on Tuesday.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said he met Sudan's coup leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan in Nairobi on Tuesday and that both committed to "dialogue" to resolve any differences.
Singapore on 5 July 2022 reported 12,784 new COVID-19 cases, the highest in a day in over three months.
Hong Kong stocks approached a two-week low as a resurgence in Covid-19 cases in mainland China led to a mass testing process and undermined bets for a swift economic recovery. Alibaba Group advanced as analysts raised their price targets. The Hang Seng Index fell 1.2 per cent to 21,586.66 at the close, the lowest level since June 23. The Hang Seng Tech Index retreated 1.2 per cent, while the Shanghai Composite Index lost 1.4 per cent. Shanghai has started mass Covid-19 screening in nine of the 1
Expenses by former police officer included more than 400 advertisements on US-owned social networks
The All Blacks have made an enforced change to their starting team to face Ireland in the second Test at Dunedin on Saturday, bringing in Dalton Papalii to the back row and moving Scott Barrett to lock.
A Russian-flagged cargo ship at the centre of a fight over grain between Kyiv and Moscow remained anchored Tuesday off Turkey's Black Sea coast -- a full four days after its unexpected arrival.
Love him or hate him, the flawed genius that is Nick Kyrgios is one of the most polarising figures on the tennis circuit but he, at least, is "comfortable" with himself.
At least 77 people have died in monsoon rains lashing Pakistan, the country's climate change minister said Wednesday, warning more heavier-than-usual downpours lay ahead.
After two nights in police custody, Indian teenager Somaiya Fatima was released in time to watch live footage of an excavator claw smashing into the walls of her childhood home.
Belarus, an “all-weather good friend” of China’s, has launched online stores on Chinese e-commerce platform JD.com and short video app Douyin, China’s version of TikTok, to promote and sell its goods to Chinese consumers. It hosted a live-streaming session on its Douyin channel on Tuesday to promote products such as chocolates and crisps to Chinese audiences, who could place orders within the live-streaming channel. The live stream, which was attended by Yuri Senko, Belarus’s ambassador to China
India has tweaked export policy for wheat flour and asked traders to secure permission before exporting the commodity, the government said in a notification published on Thursday. New Delhi banned wheat exports in mid-May as a scorching heatwave curtailed output and domestic prices hit a record high. After the ban, demand for wheat flour jumped from neighbouring countries struggling to secure wheat at lower prices from other suppliers.
A police report has been filed against a man who punched a security officer repeatedly after he was told not to enter a supermarket in Tampines without a mask.
