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Seoul: North Korea accused the UN Security Council on Sunday of infringing on its sovereignty, after it held a closed-door meeting to criticise the North’s recent missile tests.Jo Chol Su, the head of the North Korean Foreign Ministry’s International...

United Nations: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres strongly condemned Saturday's improvised explosive device attacks against a convoy of the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali near Tessalit, Kidal region, in which a peacekeeper from Egypt was killed and four others were...

Kabul: Three people, including a journalist, have been killed in a shooting in Afghanistan's eastern province of Nangarhar, authorities confirmed on Sunday."Journalist and author Sayyed Marof Saadat along with his relatives were travelling in a sedan along a road...

Aden: The intense armed confrontations erupted between Yemeni security forces and unknown gunmen in the country's southern port city of Aden on Saturday, a government official told Xinhua."A series of street battles struck the residential neighbourhoods of Crater district...

Washington: Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat met US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and discussed advancing defence partnership between the two countries, including in domains such as space, cyber, and emerging technologies, the US Department of...

Manila: Glorified boxer Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao, known as Manny Pacquiao, has become the first contender to formally apply to run for president of the Philippines in the 2022 elections.In September, 42-year-old Pacquiao, who occupies a seat in the country's...

Abuja: Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said on Friday he had directed the government to lift the suspension of Twitter in the country if the social media network complies with national regulations.Soon after the government announced the ban in June,...

Dhaka: ONGC Videsh Limited has started its first exploratory drilling campaign in Bangladesh for finding oil and gas.The first well, Kanchan 1 was spudded in block SS04 of the Maheshkhali island of the country on Wednesday. This exploratory well...

Tokyo: Haneda Airport in Tokyo canceled 357 flights on Friday due to powerful typhoon Mindulle approaching the country, according to the international airport's schedule.Since early Friday, 264 flights departing Haneda and 93 arriving at the airport have been canceled,...

Washington: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Thursday that while the rise of China has had a very fundamental impact on the international order, the Quad should not be seen as “some kind of ganging up and negatively...