Asia

The government and the EU held their 10th formal consultations in Brussels, allowing for an exchange of views on a wide range of topics of bilateral interest

Thousands of office workers, government employees, teachers and pensioners marched in Vijayawada, a municipal corporation in Andhra Pradesh, to protest against the wage revision, considering it detrimental to their interests

Customs and livestock officials are now in service with dogs trained to sniff out pork meat that might be smuggled across the border

The Amiri Diwan has asked all ministers who are not members of the ruling family to remove the title 'sheikh' from their names, in implementation of the Amiri decree, which was issued in May 2017 to recognise and fix the Al Sabah family tree

Some public universities opened for the first time since the Taliban seized power in August, with very few women in attendance

Bulldozers from Israel destroyed residential structures and shacks belonging to Bedouins in Deir Nidham village, northwest of Ramallah; Israel confiscated at least 22% of the village's land for the nearby Neve Tzuf settlement

At least 19 migrants died due to the cold near the Greek border; the migrants were allegedly turned back by Greek border guards while trying to enter illegally, their clothes and shoes stolen - authorities say by other migrants

Jerusalem's Biblical Zoo has announced the reopening of tiger exhibits with endangered species, including the Sumatran tiger, a subspecies listed as critically endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List

Radio Bahrain 96,5, operated by Radio Bahrain Company, wholly owned by Mumtalakat, the sovereign wealth fund of the Bahraini government, has unveiled its new identity as part of its development strategy reflecting the evolution of radio

After the session of the Armenian-Austrian intergovernmental commission on trade-economic and technical-scientific cooperation, an Austrian company is planning to build a new ski complex in the country

The country is about to start experimental production of drugs to help in the treatment of drug addiction in accordance with the strategy of the Ministry of Public Security