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Kyiv: The war against Russia will reach a turning point by mid-August and be over by the end of the year, Ukraine’s head of military intelligence has told Sky News.Major General Kyrylo Budanov also claimed that a coup to...

Tblisi: Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Friday assured citizens that the country will maintain a long-lasting peace with Russia and ruled out any military conflicts between both nations."We guarantee our residents that peace will be long-lasting. There will...

United Nations: The United Nations is aware of "shocking” video showing violence during the funeral of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in Jerusalem and calls on the Israeli government to protect freedom of peaceful assembly, UN spokesperson Farhan...

Colombo: United National Party (UNP) leader Ranil Wickremesinghe was on Thursday evening sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Sri Lanka.Wickremesinghe took oath before President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the President’s House. Secretary to the President Gamini Senarath and Prof....

Pyongyang: North Korean authorities have ordered a strict national lockdown after the first Covid-19 cases were reported in two years, BBC reported on Thrusday.According to local media reports the capital Pyongyang is experiencing an Omicron outbreak but did not...

Warsaw: Russian president Vladimir Putin is more dangerous than Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin, the Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki warned.Calling for “de-Putinisation” in an article in The Telegraph on Tuesday, he said Putin’s dangerous ideology is bolstered by...

Muscat: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres missed the opportunity to reach a peaceful settlement on Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday."To my great regret, the secretariat of this organization, including its general secretary, missed the opportunity...

Stockholm: Britain would support whatever Sweden decides around possible future on NATO membership, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said. He stated this while addressing a joint press conference with Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson on Wednesday.Johnson, who is also scheduled...

Beijing: Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom (AUKUS), which condemned China and the Solomon Islands for a security cooperation deal, are the ones militarizing the South Pacific and provoking a new arms race in the region, Chinese...

Colombo: He was a demigod for tens of thousands of Sri Lankans. Some people in the North Central Sri Lankan district of Anuradhapura still keep his picture next to their Buddha statue. Mahinda Rajapaksa was revered to that extent.Many...