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Beijing: The Chinese People's Liberation Army Rocket Force (PLARF) has successfully tested two new types of precision conventional missile warheads, the state-run CCTV broadcaster reported on Saturday.Both missiles, launched in the Northwest China desert region, penetrated multi-layer "enemy defences"...

Moscow: Abdul Ghani Baradar, the chief of the Taliban's political office (a terrorist group, banned in Russia), arrived in Kabul on Saturday to negotiate the formation of a new Afghan government, the Agence France-Presse news agency reported, citing the...

Aizawl: The Mizoram government has appointed Lalremsiami, who was part of the Indian women's hockey team which finished fourth at the Tokyo Olympics, as the chief coach, a group A post, under the state sports and youth services department.The Mizoram...

Washington: Facebook has temporarily removed an opportunity to view the list of friends for accounts from Afghanistan in an attempt to protect Afghan users from possible reprisal from the Taliban Islamist group (banned in Russia), head of the Facebook...

Beijing: The Standing Committee of the Chinese National People's Congress (NPC) on Friday voted to approve Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), which will enter into force on November 1, the Xinhua news agency reported.The decision was made during the...

London: The Delta variant of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 reduces the effectiveness of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines in fully vaccinated people, although they still help prevent severe symptoms of the disease, according to a University of Oxford study released on...

Moscow: The United Kingdom's Labour shadow home secretary, Nick Thomas-Symonds, on Thursday accused Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab of failing to make an urgent call to help evacuate translators from Afghanistan the day the Taliban entered Kabul, as he was...

Moscow: The MiG-29 fighter crashed in the Astrakhan region, the pilot was killed, Russia's Southern Military District said on Wednesday."On August 18, 2021, a MiG-29 plane crashed during a planned flight in the Astrakhan region. The plane crashed in...

Berlin: The German Foreign Ministry will provide 10 million euros ($11.7 million) for a program to support people in Afghanistan, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas told reporters in Berlin.“We are looking into the period after the evacuation, I spoke about...

Moscow: The number of people, who have died as a result of the earthquake in Haiti, has risen to 2,189, the Associated Press news agency reported, citing the country's civil protection agency.According to the previous estimation, the death toll...