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Tokyo: Strong winds and heavy snow hit the Japanese prefecture of Hokkaido, causing the cancellation of 683 train runs, as well as 136 flights, media reported on Monday.Flights, arriving at and departing from the New Chitose Airport, as...

Moscow: The US embassy in Moscow issued an urgent warning for American citizens living in Russia on Sunday and recommended then to think over "evacuation plans" to leave the country."According to media sources, there have been threats of...

Sanaa: A total of nine members of Yemen's pro-government forces were killed by a landmine explosion in the country's northern province of Saada on Sunday, a military official told Xinhua."A military patrol of the pro-government forces was struck...

Moscow: If Kiev manages to agree with the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR) to hold Contact Group talks on the Donbas crisis, Russia will also participate in the negotiations, a Moscow source familiar with the...

Berlin: Europe aims to get prepared for "as many contingencies as possible" in its defense strategy and reduce the all-time dependence on NATO, German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht said on Sunday.While speaking on the final day of the...

Minsk: The general staffs of the Russian and Belarusian armed forces will come up with joint measures to prevent war in the region, Belarusian Defense Minister Victor Khrenin said on Sunday."Testing of the response forces of the Union...

Havana: Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Eduardo Rodriguez Parrilla says that his country is against NATO's expansion eastward and that the United States is behind the current anti-Russia "hysteria.""We strongly reject the media and propaganda hysteria triggered by the...

Washington: US President Joe Biden will hold a meeting of the National Security Council on the situation in Ukraine on Sunday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said."President Biden continues to monitor the evolving situation in Ukraine, and...

Kyiv: The self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic's (LPR) mission to the Joint Center for Control and Coordination on the ceasefire regime (JCCC) is reporting a total of nearly 50 violations by Kiev forces in the course of Saturday."Over...

Brussels: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has accused Russia of planning an attack on Ukraine under a fabricated pretext, at the same time denying the validity of the alliance's commitment in 1991 not to expand eastward."No troops are...