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London: The United Kingdom Home Secretary Priti Patel on Friday announced that the Palestinian militant group Hamas is outlawed in the country in its entirety."Today I have taken action to proscribe Hamas in its entirety.This government is committed to...

Washington: President Joe Biden will transfer power to Vice President Kamala Harris during the "brief" time Friday he is under anesthesia for a colonoscopy as part of a regular health check, the White House said.Biden, the oldest person to...

Washington: The United States stands with the Philippines after the latter's recent standoff with China in the South China Sea, State Department spokesman Ned Price said on Friday."The United States stands with our ally, the Philippines, in the face...

Moscow: The export of the latest Russian anti-aircraft missile defence system S-500 will begin in the next few years, Russian state arms exporter Rosoboronexport CEO Alexander Mikheev told Sputnik."The deliveries of the S-500 Prometheus anti-aircraft missile system to the...

Tokyo: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has announced the recruitment of new astronauts, the first intake in 13 years, as part of the nation's ambitious plan to participate in the United States lunar exploration project."The working area is Earth...

Moscow/New Delhi: Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Russia intends to build up its truly multifaceted bilateral cooperation with India and that it views New Delhi as an independent, strong centre of the multipolar world.In an address to...

Islamabad: Pakistan's Minister for information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhary has blamed schools and colleges as being the main reason for extremism and not madressahs.While addressing the launching ceremony of the “charter of peace” organised by the Pakistan Institute...

Rio De Janeiro: Brazilian scientists have discovered a new dinosaur species, called Berthasaura Leopoldina, who had no teeth, media reported.Director of the National Museum of Brazil Alexander Kellner said that this species had no teeth during its whole life,...

Wellington: New Zealand reported 198 new Delta variant cases of Covid-19 in the community on Friday, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country's community outbreak to 6,532.Among the new infections, 152 were recorded in the largest...

London: UK Home Minister Priti Patel announced on Thursday that the government will hold a public inquiry into the death of Dawn Sturgess, a British woman who died in July 2018, purportedly following exposure to the nerve agent Novichok.This...