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Seoul: Six people were killed in a fire that engulfed a sound-proof tunnel of the second Gyeongin expressway in Gwacheon, about 20 km south of the capital Seoul, media reports said on Thursday.The fire, which began at about 1:49...

Kiev:Air raid warnings were issued throughout Ukraine on Thursday, according to the digital transformation ministry's live map.Earlier in the day, air raid alerts went off throughout Ukraine in the regions of Odesa, Mykolaiv, Sumy, Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Zhytomyr, Vinnytsia,...

Montevideo: Uruguay's Public Health Ministry said that experts have detected the presence of two new Omicron subvariants in the country, amid a wave of new Covid-19 cases.The Epidemiology Division of the Public Health Laboratory Department "has recently detected the...

United Nations: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has appointed Abdullah Abdul Samad Dashti of Kuwait as the new coordinator for the United Nations-brokered Black Sea Grain Initiative, spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Wednesday."United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced today...

Berlin: Exxon Mobil's German and Dutch affiliates have filed a lawsuit against the European Union in an effort to block a new windfall tax imposed on oil companies, company spokesperson Casey Norton told Sputnik on Wednesday."Our challenge is targeted...

Tunis: A Tunisian health official warned that the North African country may witness a new wave of Covid-19 infections at the beginning of 2023, the Tunis Afrique Presse (TAP) reported Wednesday."Tunisians should ... get to strengthen immunity and prevent...

Los Angeles: The United States has officially recorded more than 100 million Covid-19 cases, according to the latest data released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).The country totaled 100,216,983 confirmed Covid-19 cases as of December...

Seoul: The South Korean government unveiled on Wednesday the country's strategy in the Indo-Pacific region, indicating that Seoul would not confront any specific country, including China.South Korean media reported that the strategy was seen as a signal of Seoul's...

Beijing: China expressed dissatisfaction on Wednesday with the ongoing visit of Japanese lawmakers to Taiwan, an island it claims as its territory, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said."Driven by their own political ambition, some Japanese politicians have repeatedly made...

Moscow: At the moment, 13 out of 357 aircraft of Russia's biggest carrier, Aeroflot, have been seized abroad, mostly during maintenance or flights, because of international sanctions, the company’s CEO, Sergey Alexandrovsky ,said on Wednesday."Currently, 357 aircraft are registered...