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Beijing: In response to the US actions, China has decided to take reciprocal countermeasures, and impose sanctions on seven US individuals and entities, according to the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Friday. On July 16, the US...

Tokyo: After an extra year of waiting, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games finally opened Friday night at Tokyo's Olympic Stadium behind closed doors. The biggest sporting event on the planet is exactly one year later than originally planned due to...

New Delhi: Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu on Friday described the snatching and tearing of the copy of the IT Minister's statement in the House as an assault on the country's parliamentary democracy.Expressing anguish over the frequent disruptions...

Guwahati: A total of 42 children from Assam have been rescued in Sikkim and brought back to the state on Friday, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said. The parents of the children, hailing from four villages of Chirang district along the...

Quito: At least 21 prisoners were killed and several more injured in riots on Wednesday night in two prisons in Ecuador, the Attorney General's Office said on Thursday. The incidents took place in the prisons in the provinces of Guayas...

Washington: The United States and Iraq are expected to agree on the pullout of US forces by the end of 2021, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.Iraq does not need any more fighters because it does have those,...

Tokyo: The Organizing Committee of the Tokyo Summer Olympics said on Friday that 19 more people linkCZXaed to the games had been diagnosed with COVID-19, including three of them in the Olympic village. According to the organizers, three athletes, three...

Beijing: At the invitation of Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, the Maltese Minister for Foreign and European Affairs Evarist Bartolo, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto and Mongolian Foreign Minister Batmunkh...

Guwahati: Assam's COVID-19 tally rose to 5,54,221 on Thursday as 1,796 people tested positive for the infection, while 22 fresh fatalities pushed the state's coronavirus death toll to 5,076, a health bulletin said. Kamrup Metropolitan district registered the highest number...

Dibrugarh (Assam): In a very critical operation, a team of doctors at the Assam Medical College and Hospital (AMCH) on Wednesday removed an ovarian tumour weighing 30 kg from a 16-year-old girl, a senior medical practitioner of the establishment...