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Doha: Qatar is spending about $200 billion to prepare for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, which is 17 times more than Russia invested in organizing the tournament in 2018, The Sun newspaper reported on Tuesday.For the first FIFA World...

Washington: Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo criticized President Joe Biden on Tuesday for making US policy on Taiwan "more ambiguous."In his keynote speech at the inaugural Global Taiwan Business Forum in Kaohsiung, Pompeo said there were concerns...

Beijing: China successfully launched three Shiyan type research satellites with the Long March-6 carrier rocket on Tuesday morning, the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) said.The launch of the Shiyan-16A, Shiyan-16B and Shiyan-17 satellites took place at 7:50...

Colombo: Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Tuesday pledged to prioritize implementing the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Singapore during a meeting with Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in Tokyo.During the meeting, Wickremesinghe informed the Singaporean prime minister...

Moscow: At least 13 people were killed, including seven children, in a shooting at a school in the Russian city of Izhevsk on Monday, TASS news agency reported, citing the Russian Investigative Committee.According to the committee, 14 children and...

Dhaka: Thirty-nine people were killed when an overcrowded boat packed with Hindu pilgrims sunk in a river in Bangladesh, authorities said on Monday.Additional District Magistrate and Head of Investigation Committee Dipankar Roy said 21 women, seven men and 11...

United Nations: Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the UN global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises, has received 42 million US dollars in new funding from the LEGO Foundation, Germany, and the United States, said the fund.The donors...

Manila: Super typhoon Noru slammed Luzon island in the Philippines with heavy rainfall and winds on Sunday afternoon, leaving five people dead, as it blew away from the Southeast Asian country on Monday.Bulacan province Governor Daniel Fernando said Monday...

Rome: Italy opened polling stations for snap parliamentary elections at 07:00 a.m. local time (05:00 GMT) on Sunday.The citizens are electing 400 members of parliament and 200 senators, after the cabinet led by Prime Minister Mario Draghi resigned in...

Geneva: British music stars Harry Styles and Ed Sheeran, US basketball legend Shaquille O´Neal and other celebrities will donate personal objects for a campaign launched Saturday to support healthcare in Ukraine.Seven months into Russia´s war, the WHO Foundation --...