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Lagos: Forty-three people were killed in an armed attack on a village market in the Nigerian state of Sokoto in the northwest of the country, Agence France-Presse reported on Monday, citing the state government."Forty-three people have been confirmed dead...

MOSCOW: A joint Iran-Russia military commission will meet in Tehran in three months, Iranian General Staff Chief Maj. Gen. Mohammad Bagheri said.Maj. Gen. Bagheri arrived in Moscow on Sunday, where he intended to hold talks with his Russian counterpart...

Washington:  Colin Powell, a US war hero and the first Black secretary of state who saw his trailblazing legacy tarnished when he made the case for war in Iraq in 2003, died Monday from complications from Covid-19.The 84-year-old retired...

Seoul: South Korea’s Foreign Ministry has expressed concerns to Japan about its planned discharge of water used to cool the reactor of the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, a ministry official said on Monday.Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said...

Tokyo: The Japanese government believes that the long-standing issue of conflicting territorial claims and the post-war peace treaty with Russia must be settled as soon as practicable and not bequeathed to future generations, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said...

Islamabad: Pakistan Peoples Party Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that Prime Minister Imran Khan wants to turn every institution in Pakistan, including the Army and the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), into his Tiger Force.Addressing a rally in Karachi on...

Washington: Former US President Bill Clinton who had been hospitalized in California for sepsis was discharged, physician Alpesh Amin, the medical director of the University of California's Irvine Medical Center, said."President Clinton was discharged from UC Irvine Medical Center...

Perm: A sixth-grade student opened fire at a school in the suburbs of the Russian city of Perm, but luckily nobody was hurt, local police told Sputnik.Earlier, local emergency information services told Sputnik that there was a shooting at...

Madrid: The bust of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space who made his pioneering flight in 1961, has been unveiled in the Oeiras municipality in the Lisbon metropolitan area, the Russian embassy in Portugal told Sputnik."We...

Beijing: The Chinese mainland reported 22 imported COVID-19 cases and two locally-transmitted infections on Sunday, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Monday.The new local infections were reported in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, the commission...