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MOSCOW: Putin's End-of-Year Press Conference: What He Discussed: Tensions with the West over NATO's presence in the former Soviet space cast a long shadow over the annual conference! Russian President Vladimir Putin held his annual end-of-year press conference...
SYDNEY: Australia reintroduced Covid-19 curbs such as mandated mask wearing indoors, capacity limits and QR code check-ins to cover most of the population on Thursday as daily infections hit a fresh record, fuelled by the highly infectious Omicron variant....
KABUL: A would-be suicide bomber was shot dead on Thursday outside Kabul's main passport office, police said, as hundreds of Taliban fighters lined up for travel documents on a day reserved exclusively for their applications. "He was identified and killed...
WASHINGTON: After US President Joe Biden signed the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) into law today, US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday (local time) said that it is a strong step to combat the exploitation of forced labor in China 's...
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin praised what he described as a “positive” U.S. response to the Kremlin’s demands for legally binding security guarantees to defuse a stand-off over Ukraine as he railed against NATO’s expansion. Traditionally,...
Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold his annual press conference on Thursday. The Kremlin has said it will allow up to 500 domestic and international journalists to attend. In 2020, only hand-picked reporters were admitted due to coronavirus...
New Delhi: Omicron cases in Tamil Nadu have gone up to 34 after 33 people, whose samples were sent for genome sequencing after testing positive for Covid-19, have tested for the recent variant of coronavirus, said state Health and Family Welfare Minister...
SYDNEY: Australia's New South Wales announced a spike in daily coronavirus cases on Thursday, with infections topping 5,000 for the first time. The country's most populous state recorded 5,715 new cases up to Wednesday evening, up from 3,763 the previous...
MOSCOW: When presenter Olga Skabeyeva entered the studio of the popular Russian talk show 60 Minutes this week, she began the program the way she usually does: by slamming the Ukrainian government and pouring vitriol on its backers in the West. This episode...
WASHINGTON: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said he would "absolutely" run for president in 2024, arguing he was in a good position to win the race because he was the runner-up for the Republican nomination in 2016. "Absolutely. In a heartbeat," Cruz told The...
HONG KONG: The democratic practice of China and the HKSAR has proved that there is no fixed one-size-fits-all model for democracy that is universally applicable, said Liu Guangyuan, commissioner of the Chinese foreign ministry in the HKSAR. The Office...
BEIJING: China is seriously concerned about and firmly opposes Japan's unilateral decision to discharge the nuclear-contaminated water into the sea and its proceeding with the preparatory work, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Wednesday. Zhao...