Agencies

Moscow: Russia's armed forces have shot down 12 drones, including three Bayraktar combat drones, in Ukraine over the past day, Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Thursday." have hit one Ukrainian Mi-24 and one Mi-8 helicopter,...

Tokyo: Two people were killed and 92 others injured after a strong earthquake hit northeastern Japan late Wednesday night, police and fire authorities said Thursday.As of 6:30 am local time on Thursday, a total of 92 people were...

United Nations: Six countries - including the United Kingdom, France, and the United States - have requested a meeting of the UN Security Council on the situation in Ukraine, the UK permanent mission to the UN said."The UK...

Washington: US federal prosecutors charged five alleged Chinese agents for spying and harassing Chinese nationals living in the United States who have been critical of Beijing, the Justice Department said on Wednesday."Two complaints were unsealed, and one amended...

Washington: The United States has urged Russia to comply with the International Court of Justice's (CJ) ruling that called for an end to its military operation in Ukraine, State Department spokesperson Ned Price said.Earlier on Wednesday, the ICJ...

Moscow: Russian Su-25 attack aircraft have destroyed the military warehouses of the Ukrainian forces overnight, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Thursday.The Ministry has released footage of the aircraft destroying the Ukrainian military infrastructure."The crews of Su-25...

Washington: A group of six US lawmakers has urged Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a letter to take a tougher stand on China's state media in connection with the latter allegedly promoting a pro-Russian stance on the Ukraine crisis....

Moscow: Moscow is disappointed that EU and US leaders did not say anything about the cluster bomb attack on Donetsk by Ukraine's military and the deaths of civilians, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday.The city came under...

Moscow: The decision on the possible return of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics (DPR and LPR) to Ukraine rests with the residents of the republics, Aleksey Polishchuk, the Head of the Russian Foreign Ministry's second CIS department,...

Washington: Fox News on Monday said one of the network's journalists has been injured while covering the conflict outside Kiev but no details are available yet about his condition."A Fox News journalist has been injured while news gathering...