Agencies

Vienna: Austria has accepted Russia's conditions on payment for gas supplies in rubles, Chancellor Karl Nehammer said on Wednesday, adding that Russian President Vladimir Putin has assured of safety of gas supplies.Commenting on the situation with the suspension...

Beijing: The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) on Wednesday slammed the transit of USS Sampson guided-missile destroyer through the Taiwan Strait, accusing the United States of undermining stability in the region.The US warship sailed through the Taiwan Strait...

Moscow: The Head of the Russian state space agency said on Tuesday that Roscosmos planned to talk to Chinese officials about ways to cooperate closer on satellite communications and Earth observation."We have no doubt that cooperation we've had...

Moscow: The embassies of the Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republics (LPR and DPR) in Russia will be opened soon, possibly within a month or two, a diplomatic source told Sputnik."We will be making efforts for this to ...

Moscow: Russia has decided to declare 40 German diplomats personae non gratae in a tit-for-tat response to Berlin, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday.The ministry mentioned that it summoned the German ambassador in Russia on Monday to...

Moscow: Russian air defence systems shot down two Ukrainian drones in Russia's Ukraine-bordering Kursk region, Kursk's Governor Roman Starovoit said Monday."Today, at 04:15 Moscow time (0115 GMT), the teams of Russian air defense systems shot down two Ukrainian...

Paris: French incumbent President Emmanuel Macron won the 2022 French presidential runoff with 18,779,641 votes, or 58.54 per cent of the valid votes, according to the preliminary results released Sunday night by the French Interior Ministry.Macron's rival, far-right...

Stockholm: World military expenditure reached an all-time high of $2.1 trillion in 2021, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said on Monday, adding that the five largest spenders are the United States, China, India, the United Kingdom, and...

Moscow: A fire has erupted at an oil depot in the Russian city of Bryansk, located about 290 miles from the border with Ukraine, local emergency authorities report."Fire and rescue crews were sent to the location… Upon arrival,...

Male: Russia's flag carrier Aeroflot is to resume flights to the Maldives from May 13, the Maldives Civil Aviation Authority announced on Sunday.The civil aviation authority said Aeroflot would operate one daily flight between the Maldives and Russia...