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Washington: U.S. President Joe Biden met here Friday with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, first conveyed Chinese President Xi Jinping's greetings to Biden.The ongoing...

New York: Robert Card, the suspect accused of killing 18 people in Lewiston, the U.S. state of Maine, was found dead Friday night from "an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound," police said on social media.Card, 40, a member of the...

Kabul: Four people were killed and seven others injured as a blast hit the Police District 18 of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, on Thursday evening, Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran said on Friday.The death toll was initially reported...

Islamabad: Police have arrested six drug peddlers including a woman, and recovered over 12 kg of narcotics from their custody in Pakistan's capital city of Islamabad, police said in a statement.The capital police launched a crackdown against the criminals...

United Nations: Four civilian contract truck drivers were wounded, one of them seriously, in an armed attack on a convoy of the withdrawing UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, a UN spokesman said on Friday."All those wounded, including one who...

Guiyang: Southwest China's Guizhou Province plans to have a total of 700,000 new energy vehicles (NEVs) in its fleet by 2026, with NEVs accounting for 40 percent of new vehicle sales.Ao Hong, head of Guizhou's department of industry and...

Cairo: Egyptian army said its probe showed two unmanned drones were the falling objects that had injured six in South Sinai province on Friday morning.The incident occur when the drones were heading from the south of the Red Sea...

Moscow: A Russian Defense Ministry-commissioned launch of a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket carrying satellites took place from the country's Plesetsk Cosmodrome on Friday."On October 27, 2023, from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome (Arkhangelsk Region), a combat crew of the aerospace forces launched...

Jerusalem: The Israeli military announced Friday morning it had conducted another "targeted raid" into the Gaza Strip over the past day with the use of ground forces.According to a statement released by the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), the troops...

Colombo: At least 23 Sri Lankans were hospitalized on Friday morning after a fire broke out at an eight-story building in Pettah, the commercial centre of Colombo, the police said.The wounded have been admitted to the Colombo National Hospital,...