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Bangkok: Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Saturday that Myanmar's military leadership was "not opposed" to a visit of an official ASEAN delegation to the country to help resolve the ongoing political crisis.Earlier in the day, ASEAN...

Berlin: Ukraine has asked Germany, though in vain, to give it old corvettes amid a military standoff with Russia, according to sources who spoke with the Frankfurter Allgemeine daily.The German newspaper said Foreign Minister Heiko Maas balked at the...

Beijing: China has officially named the country's first Mars rover Zhurong after the god of fire and war in Chinese mythology, China National Space Administration said on Saturday."On Saturday, a ceremony marking the opening of the Space Day of...

Itanagar: At least 134 more people, including 10 security personnel have tested positive for COVID-19 in Arunachal Pradesh, pushing the tally in the northeastern state to 17,430, a senior health official said here on Saturday.This is the highest single-day...

New Delhi: Twenty people died last night at Jaipur Golden Hospital in Delhi due to shortage of medical oxygen, a top official at the hospital said Saturday, highlighting the worsening situation in the national capital's hospitals."We had been allotted...

Nagpur: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday booked former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh in connection with a corruption case.The national agency carried out raids at 10-different-locations including Nagpur, Katol and Mumbai on Saturday morning.The CBI action...

Cairo: Sudan is preparing to file lawsuits against Ethiopia and the Italian company implementing the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) if Addis Ababa carries out the second filling of the dam, Sudanese Irrigation Minister Yasser Abbas said on Friday.The...

Washington: US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has approved an extended deployment of the USS Eisenhower aircraft carrier in the Middle East and the deployment of long-range bombers to the region, two of which have already arrived, as a move...

Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday signed a decree on countermeasures to "unfriendly actions" of foreign states amid an intensified diplomatic row with the United States and some European countries.In accordance with the decree published by the Kremlin,...

Ankara: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, during phone conversation with his US counterpart, Joe Biden, urged the latter to end his support for the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Syria and the organization of opposition cleric Fethullah Gulen, who...