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Moscow: Russia launched a national literary award on Saturday that will recognize excellence in military prose and war journalism in tribute to military blogger Maxim Fomin, who was killed in a bomb blast in April."The launch of the...

Tehran: Iranian foreign minister said Friday that BRICS member states' combined efforts to strengthen multilateralism have enabled the block to secure an important position in global relations and interactions.Speaking at the Friends of BRICS meeting in South Africa, Hossein...

Washington: Timken Gears & Services Inc., King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, was awarded a $119.2 million US Navy modification contract for three main reduction gear shipsets to support DDG-51 class Arleigh Burke-class AEGIS missile destroyers."Timken Gears & Services King...

Tokyo: The upper house of the Japanese parliament on Wednesday passed a law to enable the extension of the operation of nuclear power plants (NPP) beyond 60 years as part of the country's plan for the transition to green...

Moscow: The United States is preparing terrorist attacks on crowded places and government institutions in Syria, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) said on Tuesday."As a habitual tool for the implementation of their subversive plans , the US intelligence...

Kyiv: The Netherlands may become the first country to deliver F-16 fighter jets to Kiev, Yuriy Sak, an adviser to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, said."The Netherlands are in a position to be first ," he was quoted by...

Beijing: The G7 countries will not be able to "fool" the rest of the world by calling China a threat and violating international law, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said."Some #G7 members called China 'the biggest threat to...

Beijing: Sun Weidong, China's Vice Foreign Minister, called Japan's Ambassador to China Hideo Tarumi to protest the "smearing" of China during the G7 conference in Hiroshima.At a conference in Hiroshima on Saturday, G7 leaders produced a final communiqué that...

Washington: The United States must understand that Ukrainian strikes on Crimea would be viewed as an attack on any other region of Russia, while the transfer of F-16 fighter jets to Kiev raises the question of NATO’s involvement in...

New Delhi/Port Moresby: Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on Monday conferred Fiji’s highest honour - the Companion of the Order of Fiji (CF), by Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka.The two Prime Ministers met for bilateral talks on the sidelines...