Yalda Night (Shab-e Chelleh) is a Persian winter celebration held on or around December 20 or 21 each year.

The Ho Chi Minh City International Martial Arts Festival 2024 officially opened on December 21, with the theme "Pride in ...

Mohamed Fathi Ibrahim Ali, Abdulrahman Jarah, and Ahmed El Abed were crowned winners for their project, "Be My Sense." ...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has partnered with Uzbekistan’s Hamkorbank to provide a 625 billion Uzbek sum loan ...

The leader of Abkhazia, a breakaway Georgian region backed by Russia, warned on Saturday that the republic was facing a ...

Russia’s substitution of VEB.RF with an under-the-radar firm is helping the country and its neighbors find a way around ...

Uzbekistan’s sole operating research reactor hosted an IAEA peer review mission on the safety aspects of long-term operation for research reactors last month. The mission’s team of experts recognized ...

With two FIFA tournaments won and another hosted, 2024 was very much Asia’s year at international level. Qatar won a second Asian Cup title and Japan impressed in World Cup qualifiers.

A court in Moscow charged Uzbek citizen Ahmat Qurbanov on December 19 with terrorism and other charges in the high-profile killing of Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, who headed Russia's Nuclear, ...

A massive and potentially transformative canal project in Afghanistan should prompt U.S. interest and engagement.

Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemilev has praised the Czech Republic after it adopted a resolution recognizing the deportation of Crimean Tatars by Soviet authorities in 1944 as genocide.

Diplomacy: Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, was in Brussels yesterday to meet with the head of NATO. He will address ...