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Doha:  Saudi and Chinese companies have signed 34 investment agreements as part of Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Saudi Arabia, Saudi state media reported on Thursday.The signing ceremony took place on Wednesday. The deals cover green energy, hydrogen production,...

Astana: Up to 10 tankers carrying oil from Kazakhstan remain stranded in the Turkish straits of the Bosphorus and Dardanelles, the head of the KazMunayGas Kazakh oil and gas company, Magzum Mirzagaliev, said on Thursday."As of yesterday, there were...

Moscow: The United States and NATO are not occupying Iraq, but they are interfering in the country's internal affairs, Russian Ambassador to Iraq Elbrus Kutrashev told Sputnik."The situation in the country is very ambiguous. There has been no...

Mexico City:At least seven people were killed in a series of clashes between armed civilians and soldiers in Nuevo Laredo, a city in northeastern Mexico's Tamaulipas state that borders the United States, the state Secretariat of Public Security said.Given...

Riyadh: The Saudi cabinet approved the state budget with a surplus of 16 billion Saudi riyals (4.26 billion US dollars).The budget was approved during a cabinet session led by Saudi Arabian King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the Saudi...

Lima: Peru's Congress swore in Vice President Dina Boluarte as the country's new president, complying with the line of succession, after voting to impeach Pedro Castillo for alleged "permanent moral incapacity.""I, Dina Ercilia Boluarte Zegarra, swear by God, by...

Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin and President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan held a phone conversation to discuss the strengthening of cooperation between the two countries.The two leaders paid special attention to...

Beijing:  The Chinese government has developed a new package of 10 measures easing its notorious zero-tolerance policy for COVID-19, which has caused mass protests across the country in recent weeks, the Chinese State Council said on Wednesday.Due to numerous...

Budapest: Hungarian government announced to stop capping fuel prices.The announcement was made during an extraordinary press conference on Tuesday.Gergely Gulyas, head of the Prime Minister's Office, blamed the European Union (EU) sanctions on Russian oil for the disruption in...

Kathmandu:The ruling alliance in Nepal has failed to win a majority of votes to form a new government on its own as general election results were unveiled on Tuesday night.The Nepali Congress, which leads the ruling alliance, has emerged...