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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…

Washington, Sep 29 (UNI/Sputnik) The African Bar Association (AFBA) called on Cape Verde authorities to release Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab, who was detained in the country and approved for extradition to the US. Saab was arrested in…

Berlin, Sep 27 (UNI/Sputnik) The chancellor candidate from the Social Democrats (SPD), Franziska Giffey, will become the first woman to govern the capital city of Berlin, according to preliminary election results suggesting that the SPD…

Paris, Sep 27 (UNI/Sputnik) An unknown man threw an egg-like object at French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday, during his visit to the Eurexpo exhibition in the city of Lyon, the LyonMag.com news outlet reported. The offender…

United Nations, Sep 27 (UNI) Afghanistan's ambassador to the United Nations Ghulam Isaczai, who was set to address world leaders at the UN General Assembly on Monday, has withdrawn his name from the list of speakers. UN spokesperson…

The Hague (Netherlands), Sep 27 (UNI) The International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Karim Khan said on Monday that he wants to focus his investigations in Afghanistan on the crimes allegedly committed by the Taliban and the…

Exit polls are in for Germany’s 2021 federal election, with the center-right Christian Democrats and their Bavarian sister party (CDU/CSU) neck-and-neck with the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) on 25%. The environmentalist Greens were…

Berlin, Sep 26 (UNI/Sputnik) Olaf Scholz, the leader of Germany’s Social Democrats, called the outcome of this Sunday’s federal election a success that proved voters wanted to see him as their next chancellor. "I am happy with the election…

Berlin, Sep 26 (UNI/Sputnik) Markus Soeder, the leader of Germany’s Christian Social Union (CSU), said he would support forming a federal coalition government together with the liberals and Greens. The Greens and the liberal Free…

Tashkent/New Delhi, Sep 26 (UNI) Minister of State for External Affairs Meenakshi Lekhi, who was on a four-day visit to Uzbekistan, held talks with the Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov, during which both sides dwelt upon the…