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Washington: The US House of Representatives has approved a Senate-passed $1 trillion bill in a 228-206 vote to fund US infrastructure projects, clearing the way for the bill to be signed into law by President Joe Biden.The infrastructure bill...

United Nations: Russia shares the concerns expressed by China and the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) about the security pact between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States (AUKUS) viewed as a threat to...

Washington: NASA will launch on November 24 the first spacecraft designed to collide with an asteroid and help test the technologies preventing space catastrophes.The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission is set to hit the smaller asteroid of...

Washington: The most significant challenge for the United States from China is the pace at which the latter is developing its technology in space, US Space Force Lt. Gen. Chance Saltzman said on Wednesday."The most significant challenge is the...

Beijing: China has successfully placed a group of Yaogan-32 Earth remote-sensing satellites into orbit, the China National Space Administration said on Wednesday.The satellite was launched aboard a Long March 2C carrier rocket at 3:43 p.m. local time (07:43 GMT)...

Naypyitaw: Myanmar's Foreign Affairs Ministry on Monday further extended entry restrictions for travellers until November 30.The suspension will be applied to the entry of all travellers, the issuance of all types of visas and visa exemptions services until the...

London: The word vax has been chosen as Word of Year in 2021, after the frequency of its usage increased 72 times since the beginning of the year, compared to the same time in 2020, Oxford Languages said on...

Bamako: Seven Malian soldiers were killed and three wounded in two terrorist attacks in western and central Mali, said the Malian Armed Forces (FAMa) on its official website on Saturday.An army escort was ambushed near the town of Mourdiah...

Beijing: Entities who want to provide data abroad may go through an internal security review and, on some occasions, will be subject to a government review, according to a draft regulation released by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC)...

Beijing: The Chinese-Russian naval exercise Maritime Cooperation-2021 and joint patrol were not aimed at third countries, Chinese Defence Ministry spokesman Tan Kefei said on Thursday."The exercise was part of the yearly cooperation plan of the Chinese and Russian armed...