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Chicago: Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin are expected to discuss the build-up of Russian troops near Ukraine in their second appeal in recent weeks, as progress towards ending the latent crisis is minimal. Ahead of Thursday’s call, the White House...
Havana: Statement 39 male migrants were repatriated from New Providence to Havana, Cuba. This group was escorted by a joint law enforcement team consisting of immigration officers and the Bahamian Defense Force Marines. The bureau’s deportation team led...
Berlin: The head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday that he's worried about the omicron and delta variants of COVID-19 producing a "tsunami" of cases between them, but he's still hopeful that the world will put the worst of the pandemic behind...
NEW YORK: Ghislaine Maxwell, a British socialite charged with recruiting and grooming teenage girls to be sexually abused by the financier Jeffrey Epstein, was convicted on five of six charges Wednesday. She was found guilty of sex trafficking of a minor,...
Jammu: Three Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) militants, including a Pakistani national, were killed in an encounter with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Kulgam district on Wednesday. In another encounter in Anantnag, a policeman succumbed to injuries incurred...
Pyongyang: North Korea has reportedly closed access to Pyongyang, along with the Workers’ Party of Korea’s 8th Central Committee, which will hold its fourth general meeting on Monday. The move seems to be aimed at increasing tensions before the party’s...
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a telephone conversation with his US counterpart Joe Biden late on Thursday evening, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told "Indeed, Putin’s phone call with the US president is scheduled for late tomorrow...
Tokyo: US and Japan are ready with a contingency plan to intervene in the Taiwan Strait in event of hostility from across China in the near future. While few details are available, the draft plan had been agreed between US and Japan in case of a Taiwan...
London: An Ambulance crew member unloads a patient from an ambulance outside the Royal London hospital in London. Coronavirus LIVE Updates: India reported 9,195 fresh COVID cases, according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Wednesday....
Hong Kong. Months after the closure of the pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily, another Hong Kong-based media company-- Stand News -- has announced that it is halting operation after seven years and removing all contents. This comes hours after a police...
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's scheduled visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been postponed amid global concern over the highly-contagious Omicron variant of coronavirus. The Prime Minister was scheduled to visit the Gulf nation on...
California: Earlier this month, China informed the United Nations General Assembly that its manned space station had to adjust its orbit in order to avoid collision with satellites launched by SpaceX, calling on the world body to remind the United States...