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Two people were injured on January 6 in a shooting in a town in southern Kosovo that has a majority Serb population, officials in Kosovo and Serbia said.

The deputy head of the United Nations aid office in Afghanistan has called for the Taliban to immediately lift bans on women attending university and working for nongovernmental organizations after a meeting with the Taliban-led government's minister of higher education.

Iranian Space Agency has begun the process of implementing the country's 10-year space plan as it held the first session for mulling the execution of the strategic plan on Saturday.

To promote Air Defence cooperation between the countries, India and Japan are all set to hold the joint Air Exercise, 'Veer Guardian-2023' involving the Indian Air Force and Japan Air Self Defence Force (JASDF) at Hyakuri Air Base, Japan from 12 January 2023 to 26 January 2023. The Indian contingent participating in the air exercise will include four Su-30 MKI, two C-17 & one

A meeting took place on Friday to mark the 60th founding anniversary of the Equipment Assembly Complex.

Artistes from various central art troupes in the DPRK are intensifying frontline-style information and agitprop activities to encourage the working people in the capital city of Pyongyang who turned out in the gigantic advance of this year in hearty response to the idea and spirit of the Sixth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.

Rodong Sinmun Saturday says in an editorial that the Sixth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) is a historic meeting which confirmed the positive and scientific policy orientation for dynamically pushing forward Korean-style socialism to a new change and development by thoroughly applying the idea of independent politics, self-supporting economy and self-reliant defence, the invariable guideline

The United States has joined the European Union in condemning the execution of two men in Iran on January 7 after they were found guilty of killing a member of the Basij force during antiestablishment protests.

In response to the hanging of two Iranian protesters, a German lawmaker of Iranian descent has demanded that Germany expel the ambassadors of the Islamic Republic.

The EU is appalled by the execution of Mohammad Mehdi Karami and Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini arrested and sentenced to death in connection with the ongoing protests in Iran.

The commander of the Iranian Army's Ground Force says the military unit is in the "most appropriate" situation to carry out drone operations and is capable of countering any kind of threat.

The UK has condemned the executions of Mohammad Mahdi Karami and Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini who were part of the recent protests in Iran.

It was already night. The Yinhang Community health service center in Shanghai's Yangpu District was still full of COVID-19 patients receiving infusion therapy.

China has taken the initiative, not passively, to optimize its COVID-19 prevention measures and it has paid close attention to mutation of the virus and sought out better policies and treatments, Liang Wannian, head of China's COVID-19 response expert panel under the National Health Commission (NHC), told a press conference on Friday.

China will further optimize the medical insurance coverage for COVID-19 patients, with a major focus to fully reimburse hospitalization expenses, after the country decided to downgrade the infectious disease from Class A to Class B management from Sunday, according to a notice jointly issued by four Chinese government agencies on Saturday.

220.13 cr Total Vaccine doses (95.14 cr Second Dose and 22.42 cr Precaution Dose) have been administered so far under Nationwide Vaccination Drive

The number of deaths from the coronavirus pandemic in Iran increased to 144,706 with two more Iranians killed by the deadly disease over the past 24 hours, Iran's Health Ministry announced on Saturday.

China has always worked to collect, analyze and assess statistics on the COVID-19 epidemic as the data is key to formulating prevention policies and understanding changes in the epidemic situation, Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said at a Friday press conference.

Chinese authorities have released a circular to further optimize medical insurance policies to ease the financial burden of COVID-19 patients.

While the Spring Festival travel rush, known as chunyun, officially kicked off on Saturday, China's top health authority called for enhanced epidemic prevention and medical treatment in rural areas given that many areas are dealing with insufficient medical resources and large populations. Officials stated that localities must fight the epidemic in rural areas like fighting poverty, expanding grassroots medical resources and enhancing monitoring of