With the US withdrawal from Afghanistan just days away, the Biden administration is asking countries in Central Asia to temporarily house thousands of Afghan interpreters and translators while they wait for visas to the United States, according to a US official and another source familiar with the discussions.

After nearly 20 years in Afghanistan, the US military, at President Biden's direction, is in the final stages of withdrawing troops from the country, bringing an end to America's longest war. CNN's Anna Coren reports from Kabul, Afghanistan.

As the tourists head back to Italy, one of the cities that has suffered most at the hands of tourism is fighting back.

Didi's stock tumbled Friday after China's Cyberspace Administration suspended the registration of new users from the company.

Tesla managed to sell more than 200,000 vehicles last quarter, even as the company faced rising prices, a PR disaster in China and a shortage of computer chips.

China is building a sprawling network of what appear to be intercontinental ballistic missile silos in its western desert that analysts say could change the equation for US military planners in Asia.

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Forget superyachts, a new residential vessel is on the way that's so huge, it's being referred to as a "yacht liner."

The air forces of Japan and the Philippines will hold their first-ever joint exercises next week, Japan's embassy in Manila said on Thursday, in a further sign of deepening defense ties between the two countries.