While Chinese investment is rising, particularly in the mining sector, the operations face both local pushback and logistical ...

Last week, a cross-regional group of countries – led by Iceland, with support from Chile and South Africa – called on the ...

They've been referred to as the Agent Orange of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Burn pits were used by the United States military to dispose of rubbish including chemicals, plastics, rubber ...

These frequent earthquakes in Afghanistan cause damage to vulnerable communities ... with a fault line also running directly through Herat. Officials say heavy rains in Argentina kill at least 15 as ...

Government pledges $9.2m in financial aid for Bahia Blanca, a port city of 300,000 people south of Buenos Aires. The deadly floods struck on Friday when a year's worth of rain, estimated to be 260 ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at earthquakes worldwide. The US Geological Survey describes an earthquake as “the ground shaking caused by a sudden slip on a fault. Stresses in the earth’s outer ...

The top UN envoy for Afghanistan on Monday underscored the need for realistic engagement with the country as humanitarian and human rights crises deepen amid growing international isolation. Briefing ...

Fidai Rahmati is the editor and content writer for Khaama Press. You may follow him at Twitter @FidelRahmati Taliban representatives and Pakistani officials have agreed to a ceasefire and the ...

Natalie Venegas is a Weekend Reporter at Newsweek based in New York. Her focus is reporting on education, social justice issues, healthcare, crime and politics while specializing on marginalized ...

Abdul Qahar Ghorbandi, head of Afghanistan’s Taxpayers Services Directorate, has the hard job of raising money in an impoverished country hobbled by international sanctions. By David Zucchino ...

It is about 15:00 in London, and 19:30 in Kabul, where the sun has set and the women who have been speaking to us today have broken their fasts with their families. These women - who come from all ...