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Vienna: An inspection team from the UN nuclear watchdog is on its way to Ukraine's embattled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the IAEA chief said.Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency said the team was expected...

Gibraltar: Gibraltar can officially call itself a city, 180 years after it was first granted the status by Queen Victoria.The British overseas territory had bid to become a city earlier this year as part of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.However,...

Taipei: Eight ships of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), as well as 23 planes, have been detected near Taiwan, the island nation's defense ministry said on Sunday."8 PLAN vessels and 23 PLA aircraft around our surrounding...

Doha: The first shipment of 24 Eurofighter Typhoon combat aircraft has arrived in Qatar from the United Kingdom, the Qatar News Agency (QNA) reports.Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani welcomed the arrival of the fighter jets at the...

Dhaka: Two mortar shells fired from Myanmar have landed in the Ghumdhum area of Bandarban, near the zero point of the Bangladesh-Myanmar border.On Sunday (August 28) at around 3 pm, mortar shells landed near the Tumbru North Mosque in...

Washington: Two US Navy ships are passing through international waters in the Taiwan Strait, in what is the first such naval operation since US-China tensions escalated after US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, Reuters reports citing US...

HOUSTON: Hundreds of demonstrators, including more than a dozen of the Uvalde school shooting victims' family members, gathered here Saturday urging the raise of the minimum age to purchase AR-15-style rifles.They also demanded that the south-central U.S. state...

Kabul: The Taliban has refused to allow female students to leave the Afghan capital to go to study in Kazakhstan and Qatar, an informed source told Sputnik.Both female and male students were planning to leave Kabul, but only male...

Washington: Newly released court papers say the FBI told a judge they expected to find "evidence of obstruction" of justice in a search of former US President Donald Trump's Florida home.About the August 8 raid, investigators said top secret...

Lisbon: Fossilized bones from a backyard of a Portugal home have now been identified as the skeleton of an 82-foot-long dinosaur — possibly the largest ever found in Europe, according to a press release.The American Association for the Advancement...