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Moscow: The Russian armed forces have destroyed four Ukrainian military facilities overnight, including two command posts, a battery of multiple launch rocket systems, and a radar station, Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Saturday."The (Russian) missile...

Amsterdam: The Dutch government said on Friday it would send a forensic team to Ukraine to gather evidence of war crimes allegedly committed at various locations near the capital of Kyiv."The forensic investigative team will start work in...

Washington: The US economy shrank at an annual rate of 1.4 per cent in the first quarter as effects of the Omicron surge start to show up, the US Commerce Department reported Thursday.The latest data marks the US...

Brussels: The applications by Finland and Sweden to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will be processed quickly should the Scandinavian countries choose to do so, the military alliance's Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, said on Thursday."If they...

Paris: France keeps supplying Ukraine with artillery weapons these days, French government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Thursday."On Thursday, the Government discussed the situation in Ukraine. These days, we continue to supply the Ukrainian armed forces with defensive...

Budapest: The government of Hungary is ready to settle its dispute with the European Commission over concerns about the rule-of-law situation in the country, Gergely Gulyas, Prime Minister Viktor Orban's chief of staff, said here on Thursday.On Wednesday,...

Moscow: Those responsible for a suspected suicide attack in the Pakistani city of Karachi that claimed the lives of three Chinese nationals will be held accountable so that "the blood of the Chinese people should not be shed...

Damascus: Four servicemen were killed and three others wounded in Israeli airstrikes on a Damascus suburb, the Syrian Defense Ministry said in a statement."As a result of Israeli aggression in the vicinity of the city of Damascus this...

Moscow: Russia's first cross-border bridge over the Amur River to China, connecting Russian village Nizhneleninskoe and Chinese county Tongjiang, has been opened in the Jewish Autonomous Region in the Far East, a Sputnik correspondent reported on Wednesday.The launching...

Moscow: Russian energy giant Gazprom announced on Wednesday that it had completely suspended gas supplies to Bulgaria's largest natural gas distribution company Bulgargaz and Polish oil and gas company PGNiG, as the companies failed to pay for gas in...