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London: Queen Elizabeth II, the UK's longest-serving monarch, has died, Buckingham Palace announced late Thursday. She was 96."The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon.The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return...

Moscow:  The summer of 2022 has become the hottest ever recorded in history of Europe, the EU's Earth Observation Programme Copernicus said on Thursday."The average temperature for Europe from June to August 2022 was about 1.34°C above the...

Moscow: Hundreds of classified NATO files have been leaked online by hackers who accessed the national headquarters of the Portuguese armed forces, media said Thursday.The Diario de Noticias reported that US intelligence informed Portugal about the unprecedented cyberattack after...

Tokyo: Terming energy and food security as pressing issues, Indian External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar on Thursday said that "dialogue and diplomacy" were the way to address challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic and ongoing conflicts.In opening...

Seoul: South Korea's Unification Minister publicly proposed talks with North Korea to discuss the issue of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War, stressing the urgency of resolving it Thursday.Kwon Young-se issued a statement offering inter-Korean dialogue on...

Colombo: Sri Lankan Education Minister Susil Premajayanta wants school bags of students checked to ensure that they are not carrying drugs.The Island newspaper on Thursday quoted the Minister as telling this to Parliament on Wednesday.The Minister said a...

London: British Prime Minister Liz Truss said on Wednesday that she hopes to find a "negotiated solution" to the row between Britain and the European Union (EU) over post-Brexit trade in Northern Ireland."My preference is for a negotiated solution,...

Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday condemned Western sanctions imposed because of Russia's war in Ukraine as "a fever that poses a threat to the entire world".In a speech to an economic forum in Vladivostok, he said Russia...

Ho Chi Minh: At least 14 people have died and others injured after a huge fire at a karaoke complex in southern Vietnam near Ho Chi Minh City.The fire broke out on the upper floor of the establishment...

Washington: The FBI recovered a document describing a foreign government’s nuclear capabilities during its search of Mar-a-Lago, a US media report has said.The Washington Post on Tuesday cited unnamed sources and did not identify the foreign government named in...