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Washington: The US Congress through bipartisan support approved a gargantuan $40 billion aid package for Ukraine to help fight Russia’s invasion even as President Joe Biden rallied behind the historic NATO membership bids of Sweden and Finland, The Kahleej...

Kyiv: Twelve people were killed in Russian bombardments in the Luhansk region of Ukraine, claimed Ukraine's Head of the military administration in the region Serhii Hayday.CNN quoted Ukrainian military officials saying that 12 people were killed in the eastern...

Beijing: China is proposing to initiate the BRICS expansion process in a strive to demonstrate the grouping's openness and make it more influential on the world stage, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Thursday."The Chinese side proposes to...

Washington: The US Senate on Thursday passed a $40 billion Ukraine aid bill, sending the legislation to the White House to be signed by President Joe Biden.Senate lawmakers passed the majority threshold with the margin at 74-11 as voting...

Moscow: The Russian Space Forces successfully launched a Soyuz-2.1 a carrier rocket with a military satellite from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, the Russian Defence Ministry said."On Thursday, a combat crew of the Space Forces of the Aerospace Forces successfully launched...

Ankara: Turkey has informed its NATO allies that it will say "no to the membership of Sweden and Finland" in the alliance, and will not change its position, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday."We do not want...

Washington: The leaders of Sweden and Finland have arrived at the White House to discuss their countries' NATO membership bids with US President Joe Biden.The two nations submitted their NATO membership applications to Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday.Whether...

Moscow: Russian Defence Ministry on Thursday has claimed that a total of 1,730 Ukrainian soldiers from Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol have surrendered since Monday.Russia said it includes 771 who surrendered in past 24 hours, of whom 80 were...

Pyongyang: North Korea has recorded over 262,000 high fever cases and one death in a day, with a total of 1.9 million infected people registered since late April, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Thursday, amid...

Kabul: The Taliban have ordered women Afghan TV presenters to cover their faces while on-air.Afghan-based Tolo News, in a tweet, said that the ministries of Vice and Virtue and Information and Culture called it a ‘final verdict’ and said...