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S Korea allocates over $540 m to make nuclear reactors safer
Moscow, Dec 27: South Korea has announced it will allocate $541 million to research and engineering to make the country's nuclear reactors safer by 2029, the South Korean media reported on Monday.
According to the Yonhap news agency, the…
Taliban plan to revamp Afghan govt bodies
Kabul, Dec 26: A number of erstwhile Afghanistan government bodies have been dissolved by the Taliban in order to establish a new council, media reports said.
The Taliban is working on creating a grand council and other common councils,…
Nathula: Army rescues 275 tourist vehicles stranded in snowfall
Gangtok, Dec 25 (UNI) 'Due to heavy snowfall in Nathula, Tsogmu Lake and area around, the tourists
got stranded, there are 275+ vehicles of tourists there, but they are enjoying the snow,' said Station House Officer Thinley Rabden.…
West Bank clashes: Over 300 Palestinians hurt in clashes with Israeli soldiers
Gaza, Dec 26: The number of Palestinians injured on Saturday in clashes with Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank has surpassed 300, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society.
Nineteen people were hit by live fire, 91 by rubber…
Iran closes land borders amid Omicron concerns
Tehran, Dec 26: Iran is closing its land borders with the neighboring countries amid a rapid spread of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, Rohollah Latifi, the spokesman for Iran's Customs, said.
"According to the decision of the…
Afghan ambassador in Dushanbe refuses to return $800,000 sent by Ghani gov’t
Dushanbe, Dec 24: The Afghan Embassy in Dushanbe has denied the Taliban (under UN sanctions for terrorism) the return of $800,000 that were sent from Kabul in the last days of the presidency of Ashraf Ghani, Afghan Ambassador Muhammad Zahir…
Kabul: Taliban deny any agreement with Turkey, Qatar on Kabul airport
Kabul, Dec 26: The Taliban (under UN sanctions for terrorism) denied that a deal had been reached with Qatar and Turkey that would allow the two to jointly run airports in Kabul and other Afghan cities.
The Turkish state news agency…
India go down 1-0 to Bangladesh in SAFF football
Dhaka, Dec 22 (UNI) India went down to hosts Bangladesh by a solitary goal in the final of the
SAFF U-19 Women’s Championship at the Bir Shreshtha Shaheed Shipahi Mostafa Kamal Stadium here on Wednesday.
The only goal in the game came in…
Terror and trade can’t go together: Amarinder
Chandigarh, Dec 22: Former Punjab chief minister and Punjab Lok Congress supremo Capt Amarinder Singh on Wednesday said that terror and trade cannot go hand-in-hand and there was no point in starting business and trade with Pakistan as long…
Maldives rolls red carpet for Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina
Male (Maldives), Dec 22 (UNI-by Mir Afroz Zaman) Maldives rolled out the red carpet to welcome Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as she arrived here today on her maiden six-day bilateral visit at the invitation of the county's…
Karzai tells Imran Khan not to interfere in Afghanistan’s internal affairs
Kabul, Dec 19 (UNI) Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai on Sunday attacked Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan for his remarks about Afghan politics and the threat of Daesh attacks and asked him not to interfere in Afghanistan’s internal…
Maldives govt ‘profoundly concerned’ over misguided info propagating hatred towards…
Male, Dec 19 (UNI) The Maldives government on Sunday said it is profoundly concerned by attempts to spread "misguided and unsubstantiated" information to propagate hatred towards India, one of its closest bilateral partners, by a small…
Egyptian delegation holds talks with Palestine factions
Gaza, Dec 20: An Egyptian security services’ delegation has arrived in the Gaza Strip and met with the main Palestinian factions, the parties discussed de-escalation efforts, a source in one of the groups told Sputnik.
"The Egyptian…
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Pak PM lacks interest in solving issues
Islamabad, Dec 18 (UNI) The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Paramedical Association has expressed concerns over Prime Minister Imran Khan’s lack of interest in "resolving paramedic’s genuine problems" and said a meeting of the executive council will be…
Three Russian planes take off from Kabul with about 200 evacuees
Moscow, Dec 18 (UNI/Sputnik) Three planes of the Russian Defense Ministry left Kabul with about 200 Russian and Kyrgyz citizens and Afghan students studying in Russia, the ministry said on Saturday.
Earlier in the day, the planes delivered…
Karachi explosion: A bank building collapses, currency blown over
Karachi, Dec 18 (UNI) A sewage gas explosion that caused a bank building to collapse in Karachi’s Shershah area on Saturday blew away hundreds of currency notes on the street, while an iron safe was also lying in the rubble. People were…
Hockey Men’s Asian Champions Trophy: India beat arch-rival Pakistan 3-1
Dhaka, Dec 17: India registered 3-1 win over the arch-rivals Pakistan in their third match of the Men's Asian Champion’s Trophy here on Friday. Akashdeep Singh and Harmanpreet Singh were the goal scorer for India, while Junaid Manzoor…
Taliban nominee requests from UN Afghanistan’s envoy seat
Kabul, Dec 17 (UNI/Sputnik) The United Nations should hand the seat of the Afghan ambassador over to the "new government" of the country, the nominee of the Taliban to the UN, Suhail Shaheen, said on Friday.
No country has yet recognized…
Saudi Prince launches $ 20 bn Jeddah Central Project
Riyadh, Dec 17: Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud launched on Friday a development plan of the Jeddah Central Project with a total investment of 75 billion Saudi Riyals (20 billion US dollars).
The…
Over 2,500 Myanmar refugees flee to Thailand amid clashes
Bangkok, Dec 17 (UNI/Sputnik) More than 2,500 people crossed into Thailand from Myanmar in the past two days to escape fighting between Myanmar troops and rebels, Thai media reported on Friday, citing a provincial governor.
Somchai…
