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Hong Kong: Nearly 3,000 residents at a Hong Kong housing estate will be confined to their homes for five days, authorities announced Friday, as they struggle to halt an outbreak of the omicron coronavirus variant. The lengthy lockdown order – reminiscent...
NEW YORK: Two NYPD officers were shot in Harlem Friday evening while responding to a domestic violence call, according to a senior police official, with one clinging to life at the hospital and the other battling very serious injuries, police sources...
NEW YORK: The FBI announced Friday that Brian Laundrie claimed responsibility for killing Long Island native Gabby Petito in a notebook found near his body. It was the first time authorities squarely pinned the blame for Petito's death on Laundrie, though...
MOSCOW: Russian Defence Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu responds to British Defence Minister Ben Wallace. "The resumption of contacts in a goodwill spirit between Russia and the United Kingdom will help reduce tensions in Europe," Minister...
WASHINGTON: The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol is asking Ivanka Trump, former President Trump's daughter and one of his White House advisers, to voluntarily sit down with the committee. The request — the first official...
GENEVA: Results of the Lavrov-Blinken meeting: what will be the US response, is a compromise possible, what will be the sanctions 1. Lavrov-Blinken: diplomacy or war Anthony Blinken, at a meeting with Sergey Lavrov in Geneva, said that the United States...
GENEVA: The United States and Russia sought to lower the temperature in a heated standoff over Ukraine, even as they reported no breakthroughs in high-level, high-stakes talks on Friday aimed at preventing a feared Russian invasion. Armed with seemingly...
GENEVA: The United States will give its written response to Russia’s security guarantee initiatives next week, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday after talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Geneva. "I told him (Lavrov)...
MOSCOW: Russia will make serious political decisions, if the US reply to Moscow’s proposals on security guarantees is disappointing, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said in a live broadcast on the Rossiya-24 TV Channel on Friday. "There...
GENEVA: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met on Friday in Geneva in a high-stakes meeting at a “critical moment” in the tensions rising between Russia, the U.S. and Ukraine. “We don’t expect to resolve...
ROME: The Italian Parliament will begin voting for the new president on Monday. This process can take several days, and once Prime Minister Mario Draghi takes on that task, there is a risk of destabilising the government. The president will be elected...
Islamabad: The recent attack on a police party by Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan in Islamabad, which left one dead, points to Imran Khan government 's failure to realise the affinity between the TTP and Afghan Taliban , a media report said. The banned TTP...