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Russian Security Council discusses new border security steps amid increasing risks
Moscow, Nov 22 (UNI/Sputnik) The increasing military activeness of NATO countries and progressive emergence of hotbeds of tension near Russia's borders necessitate new measures for ensuring border security, Russian Security Council deputy…
Malaysian PM’s party wins landslide victory in state polls
Malaysian Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob’s Malay party won a landslide victory in a state election on Saturday, defeating its allies in the ruling coalition as well as the opposition ahead of national polls.
The victory in southern…
Armenia agrees for top-level summit with Azerbaijan in Brussels
Yerevan, Nov 20 (UNI/Sputnik) Armenia confirms its participation in the Brussels-hosted summit with Azerbaijan at the level of the heads of state, the Armenian foreign ministry told Sputnik on Saturday.
Azerbaijan confirmed its…
Yoga best way to ensure healthy life: Nepalese PM Deuba
Kathmandu, Nov 20 (UNI) Nepalese Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has said that yoga and meditation are excellent means for a healthy life and claimed that the whole world has embraced yoga.
Inaugurating the Ratna Sarraf Building,…
UN delegation visits refugee center on Belarusian -Polish Border
Bruzgi Checkpoint, Poland-Belarus border, Nov 20 (UNI/Sputnik) A delegation from the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) visited the logistics center on…
Afghanistan’s Jalalabad ready to receive humanitarian aid from Iran
Kabul, Nov 20 (UNI/Sputnik) The airfield in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad is ready for operation and will soon receive humanitarian aid from Iran, the provincial governor's office announced on Saturday.
"The airfield of the city of…
Belarus clears migrant camps at EU border, but crisis not yet over
Belarus authorities on Thursday cleared the main camps where migrants had huddled at the border with Poland, in a change of tack that could help calm a crisis that has spiralled in recent weeks into a major East-West confrontation.
In…
Wildfires torched up to a fifth of all giant sequoia trees
Lightning-sparked wildfires killed thousands of giant sequoias this year, leading to a staggering two-year death toll that accounts for up to nearly a fifth of Earth’s largest trees, officials said Friday.
Fires in Sequoia National Park…
Kamala Harris becomes first woman to get US presidential powers briefly as Joe Biden undergoes…
President Joe Biden will transfer power briefly to Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday while he is under anaesthesia for a routine colonoscopy, making her the first woman to hold presidential power in US history.
Biden is undergoing…
First known Covid case was vendor at Wuhan market, scientist claims
A scientist who has pored over public accounts of early Covid-19 cases in China reported Thursday that an influential World Health Organization inquiry had likely gotten the early chronology of the pandemic wrong. The new analysis suggests…
Biden says US considering diplomatic boycott of Beijing Olympics
The United States is considering a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics, President Joe Biden confirmed on Thursday, a move that would be aimed at protesting China’s human rights record, including what Washington says is genocide…
Judge temporarily blocks New York Times from publishing Project Veritas materials
A New York trial judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the New York Times from publishing some materials concerning the conservative activist group Project Veritas, a rare step that the newspaper said violated decades of First Amendment…
Tim Paine quits as Australia captain over lewd text allegations
Melbourne, Nov 19 (UNI) Tim Paine has quit as Test captain ahead of Men's Ashes over the allegations he sent explicit messages to a woman co-worker four years ago.
The allegations were levelled in 2017, but a joint Cricket Australia and…
Setting New Standards of Governance in Modern India
Our ancient Rajniti Shastra Guru, Acharya Chankya had long pronounced his basic treatise for good governance, in his oft-repeated quote-- 'A Raja should rule his Praja efficiently and successfully by applying the Four tools :Saam,…
Philippines condemns Chinese coast guard’s action in South China Sea
The Philippines condemned “in strongest terms” the actions of three Chinese Coast Guard vessels which blocked and used water cannons on two Manila supply boats on their way to a Philippine-occupied atoll in the South China Sea, its top…
British Columbia deals with flooding as first troops arrive
A team of Canadian soldiers was in British Columbia on Thursday to assess the needs of local authorities who are dealing with floods and mudslides that forced evacuations, blocked major highways, caused the death of at least one person and…
IOC hails progress at meeting with Afghan sports officials
Sports leaders appointed by the Taliban have promised Olympic officials that Afghanistan will continue to allow its athletes and teams to compete internationally.
The International Olympic Committee announced the pledge Thursday after…
India rejects new Pakistani law in Kulbhushan Jadhav case
New Delhi, Nov 18 (UNI) India on Thursday rejected as ineffective a Pakistani law passed to give Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav the right to appeal against his conviction, in accordance with the directive of the International Court of…
American citizen and local detained in Ukraine for ordering minister’s murder
Washington, Nov 19 (UNI/Sputnik) The United States is aware of reports that a US citizen has been detained in Ukraine for ordering the killing of a Ukrainian minister, a State Department spokesperson told Sputnik.
"We are aware of reports…
UK records another 46,807 new coronavirus cases
London, Nov 18 (UNI/Xinhua) Britain has registered 46,807 new COVID-19 infections, bringing the total number of coronavirus cases in the country to 9,721,916, according to official figures released Thursday.
The country also reported a…
