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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…

Paris, Dec 26: The French sanitary authority reported 104,611 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, the highest daily toll seen in the country since the pandemic began. France said daily infections surpassed 94,100 on Friday and 58,500 on…

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…

Washington, Dec 24: Employees of the US tech giant Apple demanding better working conditions, say they are planning to stage a walkout on Friday, the Christmas Eve. "Tomorrow, December 24th, 2021, Apple workers are staging a…

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…

Beijing, Dec 24: China's legislature, the National People's Congress (NPC), on Friday pushed back against the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act signed by US President Joe Biden into law, calling all accusations contained in the legislation…

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…

Tehran, Dec 25: The latest ballistic missile test by Iran did not violate the UN Security Council on the 2015 nuclear deal, and the United Kingdom's claims to the contrary represent an attempt to meddle in the Islamic republic's internal…

Washington, Dec 25: US senators pushed President Joe Biden to talk to the new German government about putting Russia's Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline on ice, in an article published Friday by The Washington Post. Democrat Sen. Jeanne Shaheen…

London, Dec 24: UK experts are constructing a naval base for Ukraine in the southern port city of Ochakiv, while their safety is ensured by officers of a private military company, Vasily Prozorov, a former lieutenant colonel of the Security…

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…

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…

Moscow, Dec 23 (Sputnik) Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold an annual end-of-year press conference on Thursday  to sum up the results of 2021 and answer questions from journalists. The event is expected to gather over 500…

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…

Buenos Aires, Dec 22: Russia and Cuba held political consultations at the foreign ministerial level and discussed various issues on the international agenda, the Cuban Foreign Ministry said in a statement "During the meeting, which was…

London, Dec 21 (UNI) Queen Elizabeth has canceled her traditional Christmas plans at her Sandringham estate in eastern England amid spike in Omicron cases in UK. According to Fox News report, the monarch, 95, will instead celebrate the…

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…

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…

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…

Bunnos Aires, Dec 20: Chile’s far right politician Jose Antonio Kast has admitted defeat in the second round of the presidential election and has congratulated leftist congressman Gabriel Boric, who won over 55 percent of the votes. "I…