Agencies

Washington: US President Joe Biden appeared to call Russia's actions in Ukraine “genocide” as he attempted to explain why the inflation has been raising to 40-year highs in the United States.“In fact, we've already made progress since March...

Moscow: The Russian armed forces have destroyed two more ammunition depots and a hangar with aircraft in Khmelnytskyi and Kyiv regions overnight with high-precision missiles, Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Tuesday."During the night, high-precision air...

Paris: Incumbent French President Emmanuel Macron was the last among the candidates to cast a vote in the first round of the French presidential election, held on Sunday.Macron, accompanied by his spouse Brigitte, arrived at a polling place...

Beirut: Rallies in support of Russia's special military operation in Ukraine were held in Lebanon's capital, Beirut, as well as the city of Tyre, a Sputnik correspondent reports.Members of the Russian diaspora in Lebanon used candles to create...

Moscow: Russian Finance Minister Anatoly Siluanov said on Saturday that the five BRICS countries could mitigate the backlash of Western sanctions against Russia on their economies by pooling their efforts and using a range of financial instruments at their...

Ouagadougou: Twelve soldiers and 4 civilian army volunteers were killed Friday in an attack on a military detachment in northern Burkina Faso, said the army in a statement.A complex attack targeted the Namissiguima military detachment (Sanmatenga Province, Centre-Nord...

Moscow: The Tagansky magistrates' court of Moscow told Sputnik on Friday that it will consider a new protocol against Twitter over its failure to remove content outlawed in Russia at a hearing later this month."The protocol under Part...

Moscow: Preliminary results of the 2021 census indicate that Russia's population totaled 147 million people as of October 2021, with the final tally expected to be published in May, Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) chief Pavel Malkov said on...

Kyiv: Australia will provide further military assistance to Ukraine, including $26.5 million Australian dollars ($19.8 million) in anti-tank weapons and ammunition, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday."The Australian Government will provide further military support to the Government...

Washington: Meta, formerly known as Facebook, has removed accounts from its social media platform that were involved in cyber espionage or civil society destabilization operations in Iran, Ukraine and Russia, the company announced in a quarterly report on Thursday....