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Russian President Vladimir Putin drove a taxi to boost his income following the fall of the Soviet Union, state-run news agency RIA Novosti reported on Sunday. In a documentary film, RIA-Novosti quoted the Russian leader as saying:…

Tehran, Dec 12: The United States must lift the sanctions it has imposed on Iran in exchange for its return to the 2015 nuclear agreement, Iran's chief negotiator said on  Sunday. One of the main goals of the Vienna talks was "to establish…

Beijing, Dec 13: The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine could be over 30 times less effective against the Omicron strain of the coronavirus than other variants, a new study reveals. "The Omicron variant reduced the antibodies of the BioNTech vaccine…

Gen. Bipin Rawat was an extraordinary military leader, and his death creates a void that cannot be filled, said the President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind. He was speaking on the occasion of review of the Passing Out Parade of the Indian…

New Delhi, Dec 11: Senior RSS leader and chief patron of the Muslim Rashtriya Manch Indresh Kumar on Saturday said that Pakistan was spreading terrorism through Lashkar-e-Taiba and other terrorist organizations. Speaking at the…

London, Dec 11: Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has called for an inspection into the actions of UK's Metropolitan Police after an inquest jury concluded negligence by the force contributed to the deaths of serial killer Stephen Port's final…

Washington, Dec 12: US President Joe Biden has declared a state of emergency in Kentucky where a deadly storm killed dozens of people. "Today, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. declared that an emergency exists in the Commonwealth of Kentucky…

Washington, Dec 12: The death toll from the Amazon warehouse collapse in the city of Edwardsville, Illinois, caused by a tornado, has gone up to six, Illinois Governor Jay Robert Pritzker said. "It brings me great sorrow to confirm that at…

Washington, Dec 12: Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, Karen Donfried, will visit Moscow and Kiev from December 13-15, and then will meet with EU representatives in Brussels to discuss diplomatic resolution…

The al-Qaeda extremist group has grown slightly inside Afghanistan since US forces left in late August, and the country’s new Taliban leaders are divided over whether to fulfill their 2020 pledge to break ties with the group, the top US…

The Pakistani Taliban said Thursday they will not extend a cease-fire agreed to last month, accusing the government in Islamabad of not honoring the truce and failing to release 102 of their fighters. The militant group, also known as…

Oslo, Dec 10: Philippine journalist Maria Ressa and Russian Journalist Dmitry Muratov received their Nobel Peace Prize at Oslo City Hall in Norway on Friday. The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded them this year's Nobel Peace Prize for…

Washington, Dec 11: The Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund donors today agreed to provide $280 million to UNICEF and the World Food Program by the end of December to address humanitarian issues, the World Bank said. "The Afghanistan…

We must see that social media and crypto currency are used to empower democracy and not undermine it

New Delhi, Dec 9: Even as Singapore has reported more than a couple of COVID-19 cases infected by Omicron variant, the Union government removed the country from the list of 'at-risk' nations on Thursday, the latest notification published by…

New Delhi, Dec 9: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday stressed that the principles of democracy should also guide global governance, and that given technology’s ability to impact democracy positively or negatively, tech companies…