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Bratislava: Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was released from hospital and taken to his apartment in Bratislava, the media reported. The F.D. Roosevelt Hospital in the central city of Banska Bystrica said on Thursday that Fico had a…

Kiev: Ukraine's existing security agreements with foreign partners envisage providing more than $23 billion in aid to Kiev, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said. "New security agreements for Ukraine provide more strength and…

Nicosia: Cypriot government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis has said that international aid is still on its way to Gaza despite damage caused by rough seas to the temporary pier there. "Aid is being loaded on ships at Larnaca and is…

Helsinki: Local authorities have ordered an evacuation of the village of Grindavik and the iconic Blue Lagoon resort in southwest Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula after a volcano nearby erupted. The volcano located north of Grindavik…

Jerusalem: The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said that no official message has been received from the Brazilian government regarding the decision to recall the ambassador to Israel Frederico Meyer. Earlier on Wednesday, Brazil…

Sanaa, May 30 (IANS) Houthi group has said it shot down an MQ-9 Reaper drone over Yemen's central Marib. Yahya Sarea, the group's military spokesman, said on Wednesday in the statement broadcast by Houthi-run al-Masirah TV that "a…

Madrid; Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez held a meeting on Gaza with a delegation of the Ministerial Committee commissioned by the Joint Arab-Islamic Extraordinary Summit here, a day after Spain's official recognition of Palestinian…

Geneva: There is no indication that Israel will open the Rafah crossing soon, Palestine's Health Minister Majed Abu Ramadan said here. "This is totally in the hands of the Israelis," Abu Ramadan told a press briefing in Geneva on…

Minsk: Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has signed the document to suspend the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), the media reported. The document was signed by Lukashenko on May 24, Xinhua news agency…

Khartoum: Chairman of Sudan's Transitional Sovereign Council Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan has held a phone talk with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, discussing the need to end the conflict in Sudan and enable unhindered humanitarian access…

In an apparent reference to the Kargil misadventure, Sharif reminded his audience that Pakistan violated the agreement that was signed on February 21, 1999.

No group immediately claimed responsibility, but suspicion immediately fell on Yemen’s Houthi rebels, who have launched a number of attacks targeting ships over Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Tel Aviv: Amid growing international condemnation, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that the strike which killed scores of displaced Palestinians in Rafah on Sunday was a "tragic mishap". At least 45 people were killed…

Moscow: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is in direct confrontation with Russia over the conflict in Ukraine, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has said. Earlier on Monday, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg called…

Cairo: Countries in the Middle East and the European Union have condemned Israel's airstrike on tents housing displaced civilians in northwestern Rafah of the Gaza Strip, which reportedly resulted in the deaths of at least 45 Palestinians…

Wellington: Australia and New Zealand have pledged millions of dollars of aid to Papua New Guinea in the wake of a deadly landslide. Several villages in the province of Enga were hit when part of a mountain collapsed in the early hours…

Seoul: United Arab Emirates (UAE) President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan will make a state visit to South Korea on Tuesday to discuss ways to expand cooperation in energy, defence and other areas. Mohamed will visit South Korea for a…

Tel Aviv: Republican party leader and former US envoy to the United Nations, Nikki Haley has blamed Iran, China and Russia for the October 7 attack in southern Israel in which 1,200 people were brutally killed and 250 taken as hostages by…

Washington: At least 11 people were killed and several others injured as tornadoes wreaked havoc in the US states of Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas, destroying buildings, power and gas lines, and a fuel station where many people were…

Tel Aviv: An Israeli airstrike near the southern Gaza city of Rafah hit tents housing displaced people, Palestinian medics said on Sunday evening. The Palestinian Red Crescent said on X that there were "numerous" people killed and…