KABUL, May 3 (Xinhua) -- More than 1.5 million Afghan refugees have returned from neighbors Pakistan and Iran to their homeland Afghanistan over the past year of 1402 in the Persian calendar (March 21 ...

According to the UNHCR, nearly 20,000 people in Dadaab refugee camps in northeastern Kenya, which host more than 380,000 refugees, have been displaced due to the rising water levels. Many of them are ...

BLANTYRE, Malawi, May 3 (Xinhua) -- The former Malawian leader of the opposition and Vice President of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), Kondwani Nankhumwa, has formed his own party, the ...

KAMPALA, May 3 (Xinhua) -- Uganda has resumed passenger train services in parts of the capital city Kampala following a year of renovation work.

The cornerstone of Japan's pacifist constitution is Article 9, which renounces the nation's right to engage in war or to resort to military force to resolve international conflicts. For decades, this ...

COLOMBO, May 3 (Xinhua) -- The Maldives government on Thursday launched a multi-agency operation to collect biometrics of migrant workers. The Ministry of Homeland Security and Technology said the ...

ANKARA, May 3 (Xinhua) -- Turkish forces have "neutralized" 32 members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in a cross-border operation in northern Iraq, the Turkish Defense Ministry said ...

TOKYO, May 3 (Xinhua) -- Japan's investigators have determined that a collision during a nighttime drill caused the fatal crash of two Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) patrol helicopters in ...

ISLAMABAD, May 3 (Xinhua) -- At least three people were killed and eight others injured on Friday in a blast in Khuzdar district of Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province, police said. According to ...

LONDON, May 3 (Xinhua) -- Three teams are still involved in the race to win the Premier League this weekend, while three more continue their struggle to avoid relegation in a round of games that also ...

KIEV, May 3 (Xinhua) -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with visiting British Foreign Secretary David Cameron to discuss military aid to Ukraine, the presidential press service said on ...

MADRID, May 3 (Xinhua) -- World number four tennis player Daniil Medvedev says he is likely to miss the Italian Open after being forced to withdraw from his quarterfinal in the Madrid Masters with a ...