Agencies

Kabul: Afghanistan will be led by a 12-member council, and the seven candidates that have been already agreed on include ex-Afghan President Hamid Karzai, the High Council for National Reconciliation chief Abdullah Abdullah and Abdul Ghani Baradar, a co-founder...

Kubinka: Russia plans to present its prospective S-500 Prometey surface-to-air missile/anti-ballistic missile system on the international arms market by 2030, Alexander Mikheev, the head of Russia's state arms exporter Rosoboronexport, told Sputnik on Tuesday.First S-500 deliveries to the Russian...

Gaza City: Attacks by Israel that destroyed four high-rise buildings in Gaza city during the May conflict might amount to war crimes, a prominent international human rights organization said on Monday."The Israeli military's airstrikes that destroyed four high-rise buildings...

Sanaa: At least 62 Houthi rebels and four soldiers of the Yemeni government army were killed in battles in the country's central province of Marib in the past 48 hours, a military source told Xinhua on Monday.The battles took...

Itanagar: Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Sunday admitted that the pandemic has been an eye-opener for the state government prompting it to revamp the health sector in the last 18 months which it could not do in decades,...

Guwahati: Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Ripun Bora has slammed the Himanta Biswa Sarma-led Assam government for the alleged slow pace of vaccination in the state and "jeopardising" age-old social harmony by bringing in a cattle preservation law, the...

Tokyo: The Japanese authorities refuse to provide official information on an unnamed man who allegedly identified himself as a Russian citizen and said that he sailed from the Kunashir Island to Hokkaido in north Japan to seek asylum, the...

Moscow: The Australian government has rejected visa applications of more than 100 Afghans who helped guard the Australian Embassy in Kabul, ABC News reported on Sunday, citing the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade."Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs has...

Moscow: Kabul airport, the only way out of the Taliban-controlled (a terrorist group, banned in Russia) Afghanistan, will be closed for 48 hours to airlift those who have already entered the airport, the Afghan Khaama Press news agency reported...

Moscow: All 34 British OneWeb satellites launched from the Baikonur space center using the Russian Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket are now in orbit, a spokesperson of the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, told Sputnik."Separation has been confirmed for all 34...