Jailed former South Korean president Lee Myung-bak has received a presidential pardon, cutting short his 17-year sentence on corruption charges, the justice minister said. According to international media reports, Lee was on a list of more than 1,300 people who received special pardons “from the perspective of broad national unity through reconciliation, tolerance and consideration”, مزید پڑھیں

China’s military says it has conducted “strike drills” in the sea and airspace around Taiwan in response to what it says is provocation from the democratically governed island and the United States. According to international media reports, Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory, said the drills on Sunday showed Beijing was attacking regional مزید پڑھیں

Afghanistan’s Taliban-run administration has ordered all local and foreign nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) to stop female employees from coming to work, according to an economy ministry letter. According to international media reports, the letter, confirmed by economy ministry spokesperson Abdulrahman Habib on Saturday, said the female employees were not allowed to work until further notice because مزید پڑھیں

Tens of millions of Americans are enduring bone-chilling temperatures, blizzard-like conditions, power outages and cancelled holiday gatherings due to a winter storm that forecasters say is nearly unprecedented in its scope. According to international media reports, more than 200 million people, or about 60 percent of the United States population, were under some form of مزید پڑھیں

The congressional panel probing the Jan 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol released its final report late on Thursday, outlining its case that former US president Donald Trump should face criminal charges of inciting the deadly riot. The House of Representatives Select Committee also made public the transcripts of a number of its interviews مزید پڑھیں

Sixteen soldiers were killed in India’s remote northeast on Friday when the military truck transporting them skidded down a steep mountain slope and crashed, the army said. The accident occurred in the state of Sikkim while the truck carrying the soldiers was negotiating a treacherous turn in a mountainous area near the border with China. مزید پڑھیں

A small group of Afghan women staged a defiant protest in Kabul on Thursday against a Taliban order banning them from universities, an activist said, adding that some were arrested. In the latest move to restrict human rights in Afghanistan, the Taliban’s minister for higher education on Tuesday ordered all public and private universities to مزید پڑھیں

The former US special envoy to the region Zalmay Khalilzad has expressed resentment on Wednesday over the Afghan Taliban’s announcement to suspend university education for girls and said that the development is “shocking and incomprehensible”. “Women’s banishment from higher education by a faction within the Taliban is shocking and incomprehensible,” said Khalilzad. In exclusive interactions مزید پڑھیں

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told the US Congress that aid to Ukraine was an investment in democracy and “not charity” as he invoked American battles against the Nazis in World War Two to press for more assistance for his country’s war effort. Zelenskiy’s comments on Wednesday come as Republicans – some of whom have voiced increasing مزید پڑھیں

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on the Taliban administration in Kabul to ensure an end to “all forms of terrorism activities” that posed a threat to Pakistan and other neighbouring countries from Afghan soil. “There is […] a clear ask from the international community, which is for Afghanistan to stop all forms of مزید پڑھیں