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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday that he supports a swift end to the grinding conflict in Ukraine after visiting the war-hit country.Modi, 73, has trodden a delicate balance between maintaining India's historically warm ties with Russia while c...
Sports
The Paris Paralympics begin on today with a spectacular opening ceremony in a city still on a high after the highly successful Olympics.A new generation of Paralympians will join seasoned veterans competing in many of the same venues that hosted Olympic sports.A total of 18 of the 35 Olympic venues ...
At least 15 civilians including children were killed Sunday by drone strikes in Mali's north, where the army and its Russian allies are fighting separatists and jihadists, local sources said.The separatists blamed "the army of the Malian junta and Russian mercenaries from the Wagner group&q...
North Korea has unveiled a new "suicide drone", state media said Monday, with leader Kim Jong Un overseeing a performance test of the weapons, which experts said could have come from Russia.Wearing a cream baker boy hat, Kim was shown beaming as he watched, aided by high-powered binoculars...
McLaren's Lando Norris stormed to victory at the Dutch Grand Prix Sunday, a superb drive consigning home favorite Max Verstappen to his first-ever loss in front of his "Orange Army" fans.The British driver claimed his second career chequered flag after winning in Miami in May, closing ...
Three people were killed and four severely wounded in a knife attack at a festival in the western German city of Solingen on Friday, according to a spokeswoman for the police in nearby Duesseldorf.Police have launched a "major operation" to find the suspect, who is on the run, the spokeswo...
Mali's government declared a national state of emergency on Friday after weeks of heavy rains brought the death toll in flooding to 30 since June.Some 7,077 households nationwide have been hit by flooding, leaving 47,374 people displaced or affected, the government said in a statement after a sp...
The United States along with countries in Europe and Latin America on Friday rejected the certification by Venezuela's Supreme Court of strongman Nicolas Maduro's widely questioned presidential reelection.Washington, which has sanctions in place against Maduro's regime, said throug...
A bus carrying Indian tourists plunged off a Nepali highway and into a river on Friday, killing 27 people and injuring another 16.Deadly crashes are relatively common in the Himalayan republic as a result of poor roads, badly maintained vehicles and reckless driving.The bus was travelling from the t...
Business & Commerce
Chilean truck driver Claudio Perez was dubious about his first purchase of a Chinese-made family car two years ago.But the price and quick delivery time convinced him, and now he is a convert. Perez, 47, is one of millions of car buyers in Latin America to have made the shift from US- and Brazilian-...
Japanese inflation was slightly higher in July, with prices rising 2.7 percent on-year compared with 2.6 percent the month before, internal affairs ministry data showed Friday.The core Consumer Price Index reading, which excludes volatile fresh food prices, was in line with market expectations.Incre...
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A massive 2,492-carat diamond --the second largest in the world -- has been discovered in Botswana, the Canadian mining company that found the stone announced Thursday.The diamond was discovered in the Karowe diamond mine in northeastern Botswana using X-ray detection technology, Lucara Diamond said...
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The death toll in a rocket launcher attack on policemen whose vehicle broke down in central Pakistan rose to twelve on Friday, police said.Organised criminal gangs have been active in the riverine border areas of southern Sindh and central Punjab provinces for decades, often making money through kid...
Kamala Harris pledged Thursday to get a Gaza ceasefire and said as US president she would stand with Ukraine and not "cozy up" to dictators like her Republican opponent Donald Trump."Now is the time to get a hostage deal and a ceasefire deal done," the vice president told support...
The operator of Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant said this week's trial removal of radioactive debris from a battered reactor has been postponed due to a technical issue.Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) was aiming to remove a tiny sample of the estimated 880 tons of radioac...
North Korea on Friday criticised recent US arms sales in Asia, calling a deal to deliver Apache helicopters to South Korea a "reckless, provocative act" and adding it would build up its own forces in response."We strongly oppose and reject the US and its vassal forces' arms buildu...
Russian strikes killed eight civilians across Ukraine, regional authorities announced Friday, over two years and a half since Russia invaded its neighbour.Attacks killed two in the northeastern Sumy region, the national police said.Further to the east, in the Kharkiv region bordering Russia, two civ...
A nine-month-old baby girl and her mother were among 10 migrants who died when their boat capsized crossing a river that divides Serbia and Bosnia, rescuers told AFP as a search continued on Friday.Police said the boat was carrying around two dozen migrants when it flipped on the Drina River near Lj...
Sri Lanka's top court found President Ranil Wickremesinghe guilty of "unlawful conduct" on Thursday for delaying by more than a year local polls seen as an unofficial referendum on his handling of the economy.Since Wickremesinghe enjoys immunity while in office, the judgement carries n...
Cambodia on Thursday welcomed the return of a batch of trafficked Buddhist and Hindu statues from collectors and museums in the United States.In recent years the kingdom has worked closely with US officials to secure the return of hundreds of precious cultural artifacts -- many of them stolen and ex...
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