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Moscow: Russia said on Thursday that there was no question of recognising the Taliban regime in Afghanistan for now.Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Russia had not received any Taliban notification on sending an envoy to Moscow."We have not...

Washington: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was launched from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana, on Saturday, to probe structures and origins of the universe.Launched onboard Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket at 07:20 am Eastern Standard Time (1220...

London: Britain has reported another 122,186 coronavirus cases in the latest 24-hour period, exceeding 120,000 daily cases for the first time since of the start of the pandemic, according to official figures released Friday.It brought the total number of...

Beijing: China's legislature, the National People's Congress (NPC), on Friday pushed back against the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act signed by US President Joe Biden into law, calling all accusations contained in the legislation "fabricated."On Thursday, Biden signed the...

Tehran: The latest ballistic missile test by Iran did not violate the UN Security Council on the 2015 nuclear deal, and the United Kingdom's claims to the contrary represent an attempt to meddle in the Islamic republic's internal affairs,...

London: The United Kingdom, the European Union and the United States have received more doses of Covid 19 vaccines in the six-week run up to Christmas than African countries have received all year, as they are “banking on boosters”...

Seoul: Former South Korean President Park Geun-hye, who is serving a 22-year sentence for corruption and power abuse, was included on Friday into the list of people who will grant pardon as part of the New year amnesty, the...

Washington: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's defense team has filed to appeal a UK court's ruling that says he can be extradited to the United States, according to a statement from his fiancée Stella Moris on Thursday."This morning at 11:05...

Kabul: Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai has called on the international community to work with the Taliban (under UN sanctions for terrorism).When asked in an interview with CNN whether the world needs to work with the Taliban, Karzai stated:...

Dhaka: At least 27 people were killed and 100 others injured after a ferry caught fire early Friday on a river in Bangladesh's Jhalokati district, about 200 km south of the capital Dhaka.The vessel was carrying some 1,000 people...