Kazakhstan’s president fired the powerful head of the country’s security council on Wednesday in an attempt to calm the worst unrest to rock the Central Asian nation for more than a decade. Protesters, initially angered by a New Year’s Day fuel price rise, have stormed and torched public buildings and ...
China has intensified COVID-19 restrictions in Xi’an and rolled out a fifth round of mass testing, as the city announces record high daily infections since the start of the pandemic. Xi’an, in northwestern Shaanxi Province, reported 175 new local cases on Tuesday, prompting the government to introduce the new measures. ...
