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Moscow:  The Russian Defense Ministry said Wednesday that 37 countries had confirmed plans to send national teams to the Russia-led Army 2022 war games."As of today, 275 teams from 37 countries have confirmed their participation in Army 2022. Niger...

London: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday he will resign if he realizes that the British government cannot continue its work.The statement came after half-a-dozen Ministers quit Johnson's government over the past two days due to a...

Colombo: Sri Lanka's economy is now shrinking and it cannot hope to come out of its present economic mess before the end of 2023, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has warned, adding that inflation was set to zoom to...

Kyiv: At least two people were killed and seven injured when Russian troops shelled Sloviansk in Ukraine's Donetsk region, according to a regional military chief.CNN quoted Pavlo Kyrylenko as saying: "The Russians are once again deliberately attacking places where...

Ottawa: Canada has become the first country to ratify the accession protocols of Finland and Sweden for NATO membership as it tries to fast-track their full admission, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday."Today, Canada became the first...

New York: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced the appointment of India's Lieutenant General Mohan Subramanian as the new Force Commander of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS).Subramanian succeeded Lt Gen Shailesh Tinaikar of India to whom...

California: A wildfire that broke out in California on July 4 has doubled in size consuming over 3000 acres and posing threat to the power grid.The Guardian quoted California department of forestry and fire protection (CalFire) officials as saying...

Tokyo: Over 14,300 people have been hospitalised with heatstroke in Japan from June 27 to July 3 while 27 people have died as a record-breaking heat wave continues to persist in Japan, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency of...

Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the repatriation of foreign currency and the Russian currency by residents participating in foreign economic activity, the corresponding document was published on the official legal portal.Putin allowed the government commission...

Brussels: The permanent representatives of NATO member states signed accession protocols at the alliance's headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday in the presence of the foreign ministers of Sweden and Finland, the bloc said in a statement."NATO Ambassadors signed the...