Terrorists have stepped up in India's allied territory of Jammu and Kashmir in the north of the country with the start of the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan

According to data collected in Britain, the "Delta" strain is twice as likely to lead to hospitalization as the "Alpha" ("British") strain, which used to be dominant in Britain and Europe

India administered more than 10 million doses of the vaccine against COVID-19 in a single day, a national record that Prime Minister Narendra Modi called a "remarkable feat"

Iranian representative Ali Shamkhani accused U.S. President Joe Biden of illegally threatening Iran after he said he might "consider other options" if nuclear diplomacy with Tehran fails

The representative of the Taliban movement, Zabihullah Mujahid, said that residents of the Afghan capital will have to hand over cars, weapons

A U.S. military base located on the border of Iraq and Kuwait was subjected to a missile attack. Three rockets were fired from Iraqi territory into the facility

The Kaixuan International Building in the Chinese city of Dalian caught fire. The fire first broke out in an apartment on the 19th floor, after which the fire spread to adjacent rooms