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Moscow: More than 2,600 flights were cancelled on Christmas Day as COVID-19 continued to wreak havoc on the airline services, according to global flight data.Over 6,000 flights scheduled for Saturday were delayed, figures published by the flight-tracking website FlightAware...

Washington: The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully completed a mid-course correction burn on its way to the final destination: the observing spot, located one million miles away from our home planet, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)...

Beijing: The Chinese mainland on Saturday reported 158 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Sunday.Of the new local cases, 157 were reported in Shaanxi, one in Guangxi, the commission said.Also...

Moscow: Several people were killed in a suicide bomb explosion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) eastern city of Beni, government spokesman Patrick Muyaya has announced."The Government condemns the bomb explosion on Christmas Eve in a bar...

Karachi: Pakistan faces an acute shortage of natural gas this winter, and several areas in Karachi experienced cutting back on gas supplies, sparking angry protests across the city.The demonstrations came on Friday as Federal Energy Minister Hammad Azhar said...

Los Angeles: Arnold Schwarzenegger is making a difference in the lives of veterans this holiday season. He personally donated 25 homes to veterans in the LA area who had been living on the street.Schwarzenegger, 74, said on Twitter: "Today,...

Beijing: China's legislature, the National People's Congress (NPC), on Friday pushed back against the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act signed by US President Joe Biden into law, calling all accusations contained in the legislation "fabricated."On Thursday, Biden signed the...

Tehran: The latest ballistic missile test by Iran did not violate the UN Security Council on the 2015 nuclear deal, and the United Kingdom's claims to the contrary represent an attempt to meddle in the Islamic republic's internal affairs,...

Sanaa: The Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia struck the Yemeni capital of Sanaa in the early hours of Friday after the expiry of the ultimatum given to the Ansar Allah (Houthi) movement to remove weapons from the...

Seoul: Former South Korean President Park Geun-hye, who is serving a 22-year sentence for corruption and power abuse, was included on Friday into the list of people who will grant pardon as part of the New year amnesty, the...