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Stockholm, Oct 4 (UNI/Sputnik) Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, notorious for his sketch of the Prophet Muhammad, has died in a traffic accident, The Washington Times reports citing Swedish media. Vilks, 75, was traveling in a car with his…

Colombo/New Delhi, Oct 2 (UNI) Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla arrived in Colombo on Saturday evening on a four-day official visit during which he will hold discussions and also travel to various parts of Sri Lanka to further…

Doha, Oct 3 (UNI/Sputnik) The elections to Qatar’s Shura Council (Consultative Assembly) wrapped up with none of the female candidates making it into the legislative body, according to the Supervisory Committee. The vote was held on…

Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, Oct 3 (UNI/Sputnik) Brazilians took to the streets of the country's major cities to demand the impeachment of President Jair Bolsonaro. According to a Sputnik correspondent, social movements, unions and leftist…

Washington, Oct 3 (UNI/Sputnik) Former US President Donald Trump has filed a complaint with a federal court, asking Twitter to temporarily restore his account while he pushes forward with efforts toward permanent reinstatement. Trump filed…

Moscow, Oct 3 (UNI/Sputnik) Russia pursues ideology-free foreign policy, unlike the United States, which allows it to play a constructive role in the global arena, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. In an address to the Council on…

Dhaka, Oct 1 (UNI) ONGC Videsh Limited has started its first exploratory drilling campaign in Bangladesh for finding oil and gas. The first well, Kanchan 1 was spudded in block SS04 of the Maheshkhali island of the country on Wednesday.…

Washington, Oct 1 (UNI/Sputnik) The US State Department confirmed on Friday that US State Secretary Antony Blinken will travel to Paris from October 4-6 to meet with his French colleagues to discuss the US-French cooperation in the…

Tokyo, Oct 1 (UNI/Xinhua) Fumio Kishida, the new leader of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and presumed next prime minister, unveiled a lineup of party executives on Friday. Kishida was elected LDP president on Wednesday…

Tokyo, Oct 1 (UNI/Sputnik) Japanese Princess Mako, the eldest daughter of Crown Prince Fumihito, will marry her boyfriend, Kei Komuro, on October 26, the Kyodo news agency reported on Friday, citing the Imperial Household Agency. After…

COLOMBO: India's Adani Group on Thursday sealed a deal with the state-owned Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) to develop and run the strategic Colombo Port's Western Container Terminal. As the first-ever Indian port operator in Sri Lanka,…

Emily Cochrane and Jim Tankersley Democrats prepared legislation Wednesday to avert a government shutdown this week, but they were desperately trying to salvage President Joe Biden’s domestic agenda as conservative-leaning holdouts dug…

New Delhi, Sep 30 (UNI) India on Thursday rejected Beijing's second attempt within a week to put the blame on New Delhi for the border disturbances, saying it had no basis in facts, and added that it was China's amassing of a large number…

Manama, Sep 30 (UNI/XINHUA) - Visiting Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and his Bahraini counterpart Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani on Thursday jointly inaugurated the Israeli embassy in the Bahraini capital of Manama. Lapid's trip…

Kabul, Sep 30 (UNI/SPUTNIK) The acting foreign minister and acting deputy prime minister in the interim Afghan government proclaimed by the Taliban have held a reception for foreign ambassadors in Kabul, Afghan Foreign Ministry spokesman…

Moscow, Sep 30 (UNI/Sputnik) The Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist group  shelled Syria's Idlib de-escalation zone 28 times over the past 24 hours, Rear Adm. Vadim Kulit, deputy head of the Russian Defense Ministry's Center for Reconciliation of…

Moscow, Sep 30 (UNI/Sputnik) One of the two planned Soyuz-ST carrier rocket launches this year from the Kourou space center in French Guiana has been postponed until 2022, two sources in the rocket and space industry told Sputnik. Earlier,…

Washington, Sep 30 (UNI/Sputnik) US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley told lawmakers in a classified briefing that the Biden administration is in talks about using Russian bases in Central Asia to…

Conservative chancellor candidate Armin Laschet won some time in a fight for his political future on Tuesday as lawmakers in his CDU/CSU alliance met to decide what to do after suffering their first national election defeat since 2002.…

India women began their campaign for Asian Table Tennis Championships with identical 3-0 wins over Jordan and Nepal and topped the Group 1 at Lusail Multipurpose Hall, Doha in Qatar on Tuesday. Indian men’s team will directly play…