East-West cultural contact from Greece to Japan”), besides ... This statue dates to the second or third century AD during the Kushan Empire. The Buddhas of Bamiyan, which were destroyed by the Afghan ...

Archaeologist Michael Westaway, who spent years studying the cache, likened it to the Taliban’s infamous levelling of the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan, saying the reburials could breach ...

Taliban authorities announced late last month the arrest of a Chinese-American woman on February 1 in the province of Bamiyan, a tourist attraction west of Kabul known for its giant Buddhas until ...

Taliban authorities on Thursday freed US citizen George Glezmann after more than two years of detention, in a deal brokered ...

The Taliban in Afghanistan have been among the most hardline, stunning the world in 2001 by obliterating the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan. In 2024, the Taliban’s morality ministry reported ...

BEIJING/SEOUL, March 22 (Reuters) - China's aviation regulator has not released an expected update on its investigation into a deadly China Eastern Airlines (600115.SS), opens new tab crash three ...

Jennifer Allsopp on her Reading Dante with Refugees project, which has resulted in a new anthology putting refugees in ...

New chapter' - Taliban authorities announced late last month the arrest of a Chinese-American woman on February 1 in the province of Bamiyan ... known for its giant Buddhas until they were ...

For the first time in nearly four decades, "New York's Team" will head into the Big East men's basketball tournament as the No. 1 seed. Spearheaded by their tenacious defense, which ranks No. 3 on ...

They are not the only East Asians taking advantage of the global rush to rearm, not least among America’s suddenly nervous allies. Japanese firms are also finding plenty of eager buyers.

March 28, 2025 • The Muslim holy month of Ramadan is coming to an end. It is a holiday marked with fasting during the day and feasts with family in the evening. In Gaza, the month began with the ...