China’s efforts to turn its far-western Xinjiang into a manufacturing powerhouse could force more Uyghurs to work against their will and make it harder to track whether the country’s exports are made with forced labour, according to a new report from a Washington, DC-based research group, the media reported. ....

Ukraine and Russia carried out their largest prisoner exchange since the beginning of the ongoing war on February 24, the Main Intelligence Directorate of Kiev's Defence Ministry said in a statement. ....

The Pakis�tan Telecommunication Au��thority (PTA) took up the blocking of official accounts of Pakistani missions by India with Twitter management and demanded their restoration. ....

US Vice President Kamala Harris has virtually walked into the circle of fire with her tweet on abortion rights, saying "this is not over" and the Joe Biden administration will do everything in its power to defend medication abortion even as pro-abortion rights activists' protests over the apex court's ruling spread like a prairie fire across the nation. ....

Americans are up in arms again, this time, on the Supreme Court 6-3 verdict on the Roe Vs Wade case that takes away a woman's legal right to abortion generally borne out of a decision to terminate pregnancy on grounds of rape, incest or deformities of the embryo in the womb. ....

Foreign Ministers of the UK and India have today announced the establishment of a joint India-UK Commonwealth Diplomatic Academy programme. ....

Pakistan's Punjab provincial government has decided to impose a complete lockdown in its provincial capital Lahore on Sundays on all kinds of business activities in a bid to conserve energy and reducing power outages. ....

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has announced the opening of Expo City Dubai in October. ....

The Ishikawa Prefecture region in central Japan has been rocked by a series of earthquakes over the past two days, with the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) warning that further temblors could be imminent. ....

A wildfire caused by a lightening strike in the province of Zamora in northwest of Madrid has become the worst- ever recorded in the history of Spain, regional authorities confirmed. ....