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Kyiv: A second French citizen who was engaged in combat operations in Ukraine has died of wounds sustained during an artillery shelling, German radio broadcaster RTL reported on Tuesday.Adrien D., a young man aged 20, joined the so-called...

Colombo: Worsening fuel crisis and other shocks are threatening to close down Sri Lanka's famous tea industry, putting much-needed foreign exchange earnings at further risk.“There is a serious risk of all the tea factories in seven districts across the...

Colombo: India has the clout to bail Sri Lanka out of the present crisis but Colombo will need $20-25 billion worth of funds in the next three years to put its tottering economy back on some decent footing and...

Tokyo: Japan is imposing an export ban on 90 organizations from Russia and Belarus in light of the situation in Ukraine, a bulletin of the Japanese foreign, finance, and economy ministries says."According to a (Japanese) Foreign Ministry notification,...

Hong Kong: Hong Kong's new chief executive John Lee received around HK$11.3 million (US$1.4 million) in donations during his election campaign wherein he was the sole candidate, according to official filings.The Guardian quoted the filings, which were released on...

Moscow: The Russian cosmonauts who had shown their support for their invaded neighbours at the beginning of war on Ukraine with yellow and blue spacesuits have now been pictured on the International Spapce State (ISS) holding the flags of...

Beijing: After more than five years of a Chinese-Canadian billionaire went missing from a luxury hotel in Hong Kong, Xiao Jianhua was put on trial on Monday, according to Ottawa's embassy in Beijing.However, the Chinese authorities have not released...

Kyiv: Ukraine on Monday claimed to have hoisted its flag over Snake Island following the withdrawal of Russian troops from one of the important territories.Spokeswoman for the military's Southern Command, 1st Captain Natalia Humeniuk said that the Ukrainian Armed...

Moscow: The 12th Chief Directorate of the Russian Defense Ministry on Monday announced the launch of a specialized center for geophysical monitoring, whose main task is to monitor and register nuclear explosions globally."From July 1, in order to strengthen...

Islamabad: The top ministers of the PML-N-led coalition government and senior leaders took on former prime minister Imran Khan for criticising the state institutions and warned they may take him to the Supreme Court of Pakistan through a reference...