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Moscow: In response to the growing number of sanctions being imposed on Russia for invading Ukraine, Moscow on Saturday banned US President Joe Biden, his relatives and Canadian Prime Minister's wife Sophie Trudeau from entering Russia.The Foreign Ministry said...

Warsaw:  Poland has sent to Ukraine a large number of spare parts and weapons for MiG-29 fighter jets to help restore the country's air combat capabilities, Polish news portal Onet reported.Initially, the talks were focused on the transfer of...

Kyiv: Ukraine will have a bloody victory but the Russian invasion will only end with diplomacy, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on the occasion of his third anniversary as President.In an interview broadcasted on Saturday, he said, "We did not...

London: Boris Johnson's father Stanley says he has become a French national, telling a Belgium news website he wanted to keep "a link" with the EU after Brexit.Johnson senior, whose mother was French, told BFMTV getting citizenship was "something...

San Francisco: Archbishop of San Francisco Salvatore Cordileone has barred US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi from receiving Communion because of her advocacy of abortion.Cordileone has notified Pelosi that because of her support for legal abortion she is...

Brasilia: Elon Musk's surprise visit to Brazil on Friday to discuss Starlink connectivity with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro among other projects in the Amazon, apparently led President Jair Bolsonaro to hail his proposed $44 billion deal to purchase Twitter...

Paris: French President Emmanuel Macron appointed ministers for the new government of the country.In total the new government has 27 members with 17 ministries, six ministries delegates and four secretaries of state.Some ministers from the previous governments were again...

Kyiv: Russia declared victory over the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol saying the last fighters defending the city's steel plant have now surrendered.“Underground structures of Azovstal where militants were hiding are now under full control of Russian armed forces,”...

Kyiv: Ukrainian army has ordered its remaining troops holed up in Mariupol's besieged Azovstal steel works to stop fighting, a commander of a battalion leading the trapped units said Friday, The Khaleej Times reported. The commander of the unit Denys...

Beijing: The State Council, China's cabinet, decided at a meeting Friday to appoint John Lee as the sixth-term chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR). Lee will assume office on July 1, 2022. Premier Li Keqiang presided...