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Baghdad: The United Nations Mission in Iraq on Sunday condemned the assassination attempt targeting Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi and called for calm and caution."The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) condemns in the strongest terms the...

Suva: The Fijian government is preparing to inoculate children aged 12 to 14 with the Pfizer vaccine against Covid-19 from November 15.According to the Fiji village news website Sunday, the vaccine rollout for this age group came after a...

Lahore: The Lahore High Court has acquitted six leaders of the banned Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD), a charity front of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) founded by Mumbai attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed, in a terror-financing case.The six were acquitted on Saturday in one of...

Dhaka: The trial of people arrested in connection with recent attacks on the Hindu community in Bangladesh will be completed in the quickest possible time, said Attorney General (AG) of Bangladesh AM Amin.He further said that any new law...

Glasgow: Thousands of climate activists took to the streets of Glasgow on Saturday for a march as part of the Global Day of Action for Climate Justice amid the ongoing UN Conference on Climate Change (COP26), a Sputnik correspondent...

Freetown: At least 94 people died and another 92 injured were confirmed in Sierra Leone as a result of an explosion sparked by a collision of two trucks, the mayor of the country's capital of Freetown, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, said...

Washington: The US House of Representatives has approved a Senate-passed $1 trillion bill in a 228-206 vote to fund US infrastructure projects, clearing the way for the bill to be signed into law by President Joe Biden.The infrastructure bill...

United Nations: Russia shares the concerns expressed by China and the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) about the security pact between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States (AUKUS) viewed as a threat to...

Washington: NASA will launch on November 24 the first spacecraft designed to collide with an asteroid and help test the technologies preventing space catastrophes.The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission is set to hit the smaller asteroid of...

Beijing: China sent an Earth science satellite into space from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the northern Shanxi Province.The satellite, called Guangmu, was launched on Friday by a Long March-6 carrier rocket at 10:19 am (Beijing Time) and...