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Beijing: The AF393 Beijing-Paris flight of Air France returned on Saturday to Beijing and made an emergency landing there over a fire on board, media reported.According to the Beijing Daily newspaper, the plane took off from the Beijing Capital...

Beijing: Three Chinese astronauts, the first sent to orbit for space station construction, have completed their three-month mission and returned to Earth safely on Friday.The return capsule of the Shenzhou-12 manned spaceship, carrying astronauts Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming and...

Moscow: Moscow calls on the United States to refrain from further interference in the internal affairs of Russia as it may no longer resist taking measures against the US business, Maria Zakharova, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman, said on...

Dushanbe: Russian President Vladimir Putin has accepted China’s invitation to attend Winter Olympics in February 2022, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Thursday."During a conversation, President Vladimir Putin gladly accepted Xi Jinping's invitation to attend the Winter Olympics...

Tehran: Iran is ready to meet the demands of Lebanon in different areas, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said, the Tasnim news agency reported on Thursday.The Islamic republic calls for expansion of relations with Lebanon and is...

Beijing: China is ready to interact with the new government in Afghanistan, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said on Wednesday.Earlier on Tuesday, the Taliban announced that the Chinese ambassador to Kabul had congratulated Afghanistan on the formation of...

Moscow/Washington: US President Joe Biden told journalists that media reports about Chinese leader Xi Jinping turning him down for a one-on-one meeting in a phone call last week were untrue.The Financial Times reported earlier citing multiple people briefed on...

Seoul: The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) fired two unidentified ballistic missiles into eastern waters, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said Wednesday.The JCS said in a statement that two unidentified ballistic missiles were launched earlier in...

Washington: A fortnight after exiting Afghanistan, the US has highlighted Pakistan's duplicity, saying it harboured the Taliban and the Haqqani network, and had “multiplicity of interests” in the war-torn nation, including some that were in “clear conflict” with America’s...

Wellington: New Zealand's indigenous political Maori party has started collecting signatures in support of the petition that seeks to change the country’s official name to the Polynesian "Aotearoa" and to restore the Maori names for all towns, cities and...