The World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will host their Spring Meetings in Washington, DC, from April 10 to April 14.

China's military is rehearsing the encirclement of Taiwan during three days of military drills.

Beijing - which views Taiwan as a breakaway province of China - called the operation a "stern warning" to the island's government.

Indonesia's Mount Merapi, one of the world's most active volcanoes, erupted late Friday and continued to spew hot ash and other volcanic material on Saturday.

Tel Aviv, April 6, (dpa/GNA) – Israeli security forces clashed with Palestinians for a second consecutive night at a Jerusalem holy site during a convergence of Islamic and Jewish holidays.

A 25-year-old man burst into a preschool in southern Brazil and killed four children with a hatchet-like weapon Wednesday before turning himself in to police, an attack President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva condemned as "monstrous."

Manila, April 4, (dpa/GNA) – Economic growth in Asia and the Pacific is expected to accelerate this year, buoyed by China’s rapid reopening and the continued easing of Covid-19 pandemic restrictions, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said Tuesday.

ZAMBIA: US Vice President Kamala Harris visited her maternal grandfather P V Gopalan’s family house in Zambia’s capital Lusaka where he lived as an Indian Foreign Service official in the 1960s. Kamala Harris visited the house during her trip to Zambia.

NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump returned to New York on Monday to face his historic booking and arraignment on hush money charges related to allegations of sexual encounters. The nation’s largest city bolstered security and warned potential protesters it was “not a playground for your misplaced anger.”

Singapore is expecting more Sri Lankan tourists as its flag carrier SIA bolsters services including the deployment of Boeing Dreamliner for the first time and going daily from October.