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Brussels, Nov 11 (UNI/Sputnik) The European Commission upgraded the 2021 forecast for the Euro area GDP growth to 5 percent, downgrading the 2022 forecast to 4.3 percent. In its fresh economic forecast, released on Thursday, the…

Dhaka, Nov 11 (UNI) Bangladesh Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Thursday said that the Golden jubilee celebration of Bangladesh’s independence will start on December 16. Speaking to media persons, he said that the two day event on…

London, Nov 12 (UNI/Sputnik) Jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has received a permit to marry his fiancée Stella Moris, UK media reported. Last week, Assange and Moris filed a lawsuit against UK Justice Secretary Dominic Raab and…

Prague, Nov 11 (UNI/Sputnik) Czech President Milos Zeman on Thursday accepted the resignation of the government led by Prime Minister Andrej Babis, his spokesman Jiri Ovcacek said. "On Thursday, November 11, 2021, President Milos Zeman…

Moscow, Nov 11 (UNI/Sputnik) Turkish Airlines will not accept citizens of Iraq, Syria and Yemen on flights to the Belarusian capital of Minsk amid the refugee crisis, the Polish presidential office's spokesman Jakub Kumoch said. "Turkish…

Houston, Nov 11 (UNI/Xinhua) Bharti Shahani, one of the injured people during Astroworld Musical Festival stampede in Houston, U.S. state Texas, died on Wednesday night, bringing the death toll of the tragedy to nine, the attorney of…

United Nations, Nov 12 (UNI/Sputnik) Four EU member states that have seats in the UN Security Council – Estonia, France, Ireland and Norway – the United Kingdom and the United States as well as Albania have called for a strong international…

DUBAI: India's KL Rahul climbed three places to fifth but Virat Kohli slipped four spots to eighth in the latest ICC men's T20I rankings issued on Wednesday. Rahul, who scored three fifties in India's last three matches after struggling…

LE PECQ : "I'm standing again as candidate for the French presidency." Those words, or some variation along those lines, were the most glaring omission in a prime-time address to the nation on Tuesday night by French President Emmanuel…

New Delhi, Nov 10 (UNI) More than two dozen terrorist organizations having a total strength of 23,000 militants are operating in Afghanistan at the moment, according to different estimates, Nikolay Patrushev, the secretary of Russia’s…

United Nations, Nov 11 (UNI/Sputnik) The UN Security Council issued a statement in which it reiterated the members' concern over the situation in Myanmar following the military coup in February and again urged the country's military…

Berlin, Nov 11 (UNI/Sputnik) Germany's Alliance 90/The Greens political party will seek the foreign minister post in the future government during the coalition talks, German media reported. Since October, The Greens have been holding…

Warsaw, Nov 11 (Sputnik) Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau and his Turkish counterpart, Mevlut Cavusoglu, have held a phone conversation in which they agreed to counter what they described as a "hybrid attack" by Belarus with the use of…

TAKING NOTE of comments from top Indian cricket stars, such as Virat Kohli, about exhaustion due to playing in bio-bubbles without adequate breaks, the BCCI will now assess and decide on the workload management of players — before the…

Some of India’s biggest golf stars, including Shiv Kapur and Gaganjeet Bhullar, will tee off at the famed Chandigarh Golf Club when the fourth edition of the Jeev Milkha Singh Invitational gets underway here on Thursday. Presented by…

The transition of India’s white-ball squad was made official by the BCCI on Tuesday with the appointment of Rohit Sharma as the team’s new T20I captain and KL Rahul as his deputy. After the ouster from the T20 World Cup, Virat Kohli’s last…

New Delhi, Nov 9 (UNI) Afghanistan was the focus of the bilateral discussions between National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and his Tajik and Uzbek counterparts here on Tuesday, with concerns being expressed on the sharp increase in…

United Nations, Nov 9 (UNI) India on Tuesday said that it is imperative that terrorism in any form or manifestation is condemned and those supporting it in any manner are held accountable, and also stressed that the “persisting exclusion…

Jerusalem, Nov 9 (UNI/Xinhua) Israel and Hungary have signed a cooperation agreement in the fields of science and technology, Israel's Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology said in a statement on Tuesday. The agreement provides…

Ankara, Nov 9 (UNI/Xinhua) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday said his country will build two more nuclear power plants after the construction of Akkuyu power plant. "We wish to diversify our portfolio in energy by adding…