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Colombo, Jan 8 (UNI) Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Saturday evening arrived in Sri Lanka on a two-day visit to mark the 65th anniversary of Diplomatic Ties between the two countries as well as 70 years of the Rubber-Rice Pact. He was…

New Delhi, Jan 8 (UNI) External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday held a telephonic talk with his Iranian counterpart H. Amirabdolahian, during which the two discussed the challenges in Afghanistan, the prospects of Chabahar port…

Chennai, Jan 8 (UNI) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin today urged  External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar to take steps through diplomatic channels to secure the release of 56 fishermen and their 75 boats from Sri Lankan custody.…

Washington, Jan 7 (UNI/Sputnik) The United States and Japan will soon sign an agreement that will enable bilateral cooperation on developing defenses against hypersonic missiles and on new space-based capabilities, US Secretary of State…

Nur-Sultan, Jan 7 (UNI) Russian forces arrived in Kazakhstan at the request of the country's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, to help him quell anti-government protests, here on Friday. Officials have said that there have been casualties…

New Delhi, Jan 6 (UNI) Three months after India sought permission from Pakistan to transport 50,000 MT wheat and life-saving medicines via the Wagah border to Afghanistan, and over a month after Islamabad agreed to it as a one-time…

Islamabad, Jan 6(UNI) A British court on Wednesday convicted former British-Pakistani parliamentarian Lord Nazir Ahmed of sexual offences against two children in the 1970s, Dawn reported on Thursday. Lord Ahmed was found guilty of a…

Washington, Jan 6 (UNI/Sputnik) US Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a telephone call with Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa and discussed North Korea's latest ballistic missile launch as well as reaffirmed the United States'…

Paris, Jan 5: French President Emmanuel Macron made it clear that he wants to run in the presidential elections in April, but did not officially declare himself a candidate. "There is no false expectation. I want. As soon as there are…

Jerusalem, Jan 4 (UNI/Xinhua) Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday spoke by phone on a variety of topics of common interest, including the Iranian nuclear issue. "The two discussed…

Kazakh President urges citizens to ignore provocations

Ankara, Jan 4 (UNI/Xinhua) Turkey on Tuesday reported 54,724 new COVID-19 cases, raising its tally of infections to 9,652,394, according to its health ministry. The death toll from the virus in Turkey rose by 137 to 82,932, while 26,561…

Hong Kong, Jan 3: Another independent Hong Kong news site Citizen News will be shutting down on January 4 due to the deteriorating conditions of media organizations in the city. This announcement came days after several senior employees of…

Kuwait City, Jan 3 (UNI/Sputnik) The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries has elected Haitham Al-Ghais, the candidate of the Kuwaiti delegation, as its new secretary general, an OPEC source told Sputnik on Monday. According…

Damascus (Syria), Jan 3: Five Syrian soldiers were killed and 20 others wounded when the Islamic State militants targeted their military bus in eastern Syria overnight Sunday, the media reported on Monday. A missile attack targeted the bus…

Kunming (China), Jan 2 (Xinhua) Twenty-two people were injured in a 5.4-magnitude earthquake that struck the county of Ninglang in China's Yunnan Province at 1502 hours on Sunday, local authorities said. The quake struck near the border…

Islamabad, Jan 2 (UNI) Pakistan’s Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Sirajul Haq has called for the country’s Prime Minister Imran Khan’s resignation saying that there are mafias all over the country, and 2022 will be the last year of the…

Moscow, Jan 2 (Sputnik) Russian energy giant Gazprom produced 514.8 billion cubic meters of gas in 2021, which is its highest result in 13 years, Chairman of the Management Committee Alexey Miller said Sunday. "In 2021, we produced…

New Delhi, Jan 1 (UNI) India on Saturday supplied 500,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine Covaxin to Afghanistan, and will be supplying an additional batch of 500,000 doses in the coming weeks. The Ministry of External Affairs, in a statement,…

Pakistani military had exceeded up to 15 km into Afghanistan territory