This spwarling city cost £11 billion to construct but now its streets appear devoid of people. (Image: Getty) Before 1948, Ashgabat was just a small town in Soviet Turkmenistan in Central Asia.

For some time now, the authorities in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan have banned end-of-school-year ...

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Israel and Iran have exchanged more strikes while new diplomatic efforts appeared to be underway a week into the war ...

Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz said Saeed Izadi, who armed Hamas, was killed in an apartment strike in Iran. How the ...

Thailand went down to Turkmenistan 3-1 in a key qualification match for the 2026 AFC Asian Cup in Ashgabat on Tuesday night. The victory saw hosts Turkmenistan open up a three-point lead at the ...

While vaccine mandates and COVID passports may be a thing of the past, one country in Central Asia still requires all ...

Calls it “hasty step” that only hurts Middle Corridor trade development. Jun 11, 2025 (Photo: gov.tm) Turkmenistan’s Foreign Ministry has responded to the partial travel ban imposed on Turkmen ...

Trichy: In what is seen as a drawback for a city known for its secular fabric, at least 30 prominent roads and streets in Trichy continue to bear caste and communal identities. While a few of them ...

About the same time, the city grew so that the street grid expanded, and the big east-west road in that part of town became 12th Street, so the city did not build a road through the park. "Back ...

OAKLAND — Anyone exiting Oakland’s 19th Street BART station over the past year may have found themselves in a kind of chaos nestled in the city’s Uptown: torn-up roads, fenced-off sidewalks ...