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Geneva: More than 90 migrants died in the Mediterranean waters after the boat carrying them from Libya got shipwrecked, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said."More than 90 people have died in another Mediterranean tragedy. Europe...

Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has named US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu as the American official who has been making 'threats' towards him and his government, Dawn reported on Monday....

Berlin: Berlin declined Kiev's request to supply 100 Marder infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) to Ukraine, German media Welt reported on Sunday, citing defense sources.Last Wednesday, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov sent a letter to the German Defense Ministry...

Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin has not refused to meet with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, meaning a summit remains a distant possibility, Kremlin spokesman said on Sunday."Putin has never refused to meet and a meeting is hypothetically...

Moscow: Political dialogue between Russia and NATO is impossible in the current conditions, it makes no sense to even talk about the conditions for resuming contacts, Nikolay Kobrinets, the Head of the Russian Foreign Ministry's European cooperation department, told...

Tehran: Iran wants to trade with Russia in national currencies, and the sides have an agreement on this issue, Deputy Head of Iranian Central Bank Mohsen Karimi told Sputnik on Friday."There are agreements and opportunities. Iran just wants...

Washington: US President Joe Biden said on Friday that more than 30 countries have agreed to join the United States in releasing oil from their reserves in the market."This morning over 30 countries from across the world convened...

Washington: Pope Francis apologized on Friday for the Catholic Church's abuse of indigenous children in Canada's residential school system, bowing to decades of pressure from the country's native peoples."I also feel shame ... sorrow and shame for the...

Beijing: China profoundly regrets that the situation in Ukraine has reached the current state, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Friday.Earlier in the day, the 23rd summit between the European Union and China was held via videoconference. The...

Seoul: Three people were killed and one was seriously injured as two trainer fighter jets of the South Korean air force collided in mid-air and crashed in the southeastern city, Yonhap news agency reported on Friday.Two KT-1 trainer...