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Tokyo: Japan plans to spend a record 55.7 trillion yen (488 billion US dollars) on an economic stimulus package, which is designed to help recover from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, local media reported Thursday.The total package, including...

Baghdad: Five militants of the extremist Islamic State (IS) group were killed in an airstrike in Iraq's eastern province of Diyala, the Iraqi military said Thursday.The Iraqi army's helicopter gunships carried out the airstrike during a reconnaissance and...

Washington: Facebook has said that hackers from Pakistan targeted people connected to the Afghan government using the social media platform.Head of Cyber Espionage Investigations, Facebook Mike Dvilyanski and Facebook Director, Threat Disruption David Agranovich, in a joint statement...

Seoul: South Korea is concerned about Russia's anti-satellite missile test and urges international efforts to use outer space in a peaceful and sustainable manner, the South Korean Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday."We express concerns over the November 15...

Baku/Yerevan: Azerbaijan and Armenia on Wednesday announced their respective casualties in clashes that broke out along the border on Tuesday.The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said in a statement that seven Azerbaijani soldiers were killed, and 10 others were wounded in...

Kiev: Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba spoke to his Montenegrin counterpart Dorde Radulovic by phone to discuss a number of issues, including the situation on the border of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said in a statement."The sides...

Moscow: Russia has successfully conducted a test on November 15, hitting an inoperative Russian satellite Tselina-D, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday."In particular, on November 15, the Russian Ministry of Defense successfully carried out a test, as a...

Moscow: Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu confirmed successful testing of the anti-satellite system by Russia, stating that "it precisely struck an old satellite.""We have really tested a successful promising system. It precisely struck an old satellite," Shoigu said, answering...

New Delhi: The Myanmar Junta government on Tuesday added fresh charges of electoral fraud against ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her associates for abuse of power, local media reports said.Apart from Suu Kyi, former President U Win...

Lahore: The provincial capital of Punjab became the most polluted city in Pakistan and among the most polluted in the world after the city’s Air Quality Index (AQI) went above 400.The Air Quality Index data was released on...