Malaysia’s new prime minister yesterday called on his colleagues to end a months-long political crisis and come together to fight the Covid-19 pandemic, in his first speech as the country’s fourth premier in as many years.

Former Afghan government forces forming a resistance movement in a fortified valley are preparing for “long-term conflict”, but are also seeking to negotiate with the Taliban, their spokesman told AFP in an interview.

Five Bangladeshis were evacuated from Afghanistan yesterday -- three of them under UN and two under US arrangements -- in a development giving much relief since the Afghanistan fell to the Taliban on August 15.

The son of Ahmad Shah Massoud, who was one of the main leaders of Afghanistan's anti-Soviet resistance in the 1980s, said he will not surrender areas under his control to the Taliban, Dubai-based al-Arabiya TV channel cited him as saying on Sunday.

A group of Afghan women too young to recall the Taliban's 1996-2001 rule are experiencing the same trauma once recounted by relatives after the group retook control of Afghanistan, leading thousands to flee the country.

Amidst the ongoing evacuation of its nationals and Hindus and Sikhs from Afghanistan post-Taliban takeover, a senior member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet today said this was why India enacted the Citizenship Amendment Act.

A panicked crush of people trying to enter Kabul’s international airport killed seven Afghan civilians in the crowds, the British military said Sunday, showing the danger still posed to those trying to flee the Taliban’s takeover of the country.

Austria's conservative Chancellor Sebastian Kurz opposes taking in any more people fleeing Afghanistan now that the Taliban have seized power, he said in remarks published on Sunday.

Afghanistan's new Taliban rulers imposed some order around chaotic Kabul airport on Sunday, making sure people formed orderly queues outside the main gates and not allowing crowds to gather at the perimeter, witnesses said.

Questions are swirling in the air after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan last week ending the rule of West-backed government of Ashraf Ghani. It took

Taliban leaders gathered in the Afghan capital yesterday to begin mapping out an “inclusive government”, as thousands scrambled to leave the country via a chaotic evacuation dubbed one of the most difficult airlifts in history.

Myanmar’s military government has arrested two more local journalists, the army-owned television reported yesterday , in the latest in a sweeping crackdown on the media since a Feb. 1 coup.

India has authorised the emergency use of a second homegrown Covid-19 vaccine, which is also the first approved for children older than 12 in the country.

The official websites of the Taliban, who swept to power in Afghanistan on the back of a lightning offensive last week, appeared

A suicide bomb attack in Pakistan on a motorcade carrying Chinese personnel injured one Chinese national and killed two local children,

Sri Lanka will issue captive elephants with their own biometric identity cards and ban their riders from drinking on the job under a wide-ranging new animal protection law.

A new Malaysian leader was sworn yesterday following the previous government’s collapse, reclaiming the premiership for his scandal-mired party without an election.

Government employees in Kabul were blocked by Taliban militants from returning to their offices yesterday, the first day of the Afghan working week.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi yesterday said time has come for all Indian opposition parties to rise above their different compulsions and “plan systematically” and unitedly for the 2024 parliamentary election against Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party.

The United States has evacuated 2,500 Americans from Kabul over the past week, senior US officials said on Saturday, adding that Washington is fighting against "time and space" to evacuate people from Afghanistan.