Afghan Commandos listening to a briefing for an imminent operation to retake a nearby Taliban-held village, base near Farahrud Bazaar, Bolo Bluk district, Farah province, March 7, 2018. /Getty Im
South Korea’s prime minister resigned his post to prepare for a run in next year’s presidential race, facing a battle to win voters upset over runaway real estate price
Kandahar Air Field, a NATO-led coalition forces' military base, in Daman district of Kandahar province, Afghanistan, April 15, 2021. /Xinhua Editor's note: Thomas O. Falk is a London-based pol
India has been gripped by a life or death race against Covid-19, as the country of nearly 1.4 billion people rolls out one of the fastest vaccination drives in the worl
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said on Thursday she would ask the central government to impose emergency measures in the capital region to stem a surge of COVID-19 infecti
Residents line up to get COVID-19 vaccine in Florida, U.S., December 31, 2020. /CFP While the number of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths have fallen from their peaks in the U.S., an
A meeting of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) Joint Commission is held in Vienna, Austria, December 6, 2019. /Xinhua Editor's note:Thomas O. Falk is a London-based political anal
Longtime venture capitalist Hans Tung is a big guy. His size might just be lifesaving.A first-generation Taiwanese-American who came to the U.S. and to L.A. specifically in 1984, it was a fraught time
Shopping malls and restaurants in Japan will miss out on a business boom, as Tokyo expects to hold the Olympics without overseas spectators, dealing another blow to ind
This photo provided by NASA shows tire tracks left by the Mars Perseverance rover. /AP NASA's newest Mars rover has sent back the first-ever sounds of driving on the red planet – a grinding, c
It seems that every week a new agribusiness, consumer packaged goods company, bank, technology corporation, celebrity or Facebook friend announces support for regenerative agriculture.For those of us
India is expanding its COVID-19 vaccination drive beyond health care and front-line workers, offering the shots to older people and those with medical conditions that p
Editor's note: Hamzah Rifaat Hussain is a former visiting fellow at the Stimson Center in Washington and serves as assistant researcher at the Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI) in Pakista
A patient is moved from an ambulance into the COVID-19 treatment center at Dr. Carlos MacGregor Sanchez General Hospital in Mexico City, Mexico, January 10, 2021. /AP Over one million people h
A view of Luijiazui Finance District, Shanghai, China. /CFP China on Monday reported agross domestic product (GDP) increase of 6.5 percent in the fourth quarter of 2020, bringing the country's
A member of the medical staff prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine at the Notre-Dame hospital in Brussels, Belgium, December 28, 2020. /CFP Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech's COVID-
The United States will require airline passengers from Britain to get a negative COVID-19 test before their flight, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention annou