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Tokyo: Russian Ambassador to Japan Mikhail Galuzin has been summoned by the Japanese Foreign Ministry to express protest over Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin’s visit to the island of Iturup, the Kyodo news agency reports.Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Mori...

Moscow: Syrian air defence systems have destroyed two missiles launched by Israel's fighter jets toward facilities in the Damascus region, the deputy head of the Russian Defense Ministry's Center for Reconciliation of Opposing Sides in Syria said on Sunday.According...

Beijing: In response to the US actions, China has decided to take reciprocal countermeasures, and impose sanctions on seven US individuals and entities, according to the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Friday.On July 16, the US...

New Delhi: Xi Jinping, who once said that "to govern a country, it's necessary to govern the border and to govern the border, it's required to stabilise Tibet first", visited this week the strategic Tibet Autonomous Region bordering India...

Quito: At least 21 prisoners were killed and several more injured in riots on Wednesday night in two prisons in Ecuador, the Attorney General's Office said on Thursday.The incidents took place in the prisons in the provinces of Guayas...

Washington: The United States and Iraq are expected to agree on the pullout of US forces by the end of 2021, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.Iraq does not need any more fighters because it does have those,...

Beijing: At the invitation of Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, the Maltese Minister for Foreign and European Affairs Evarist Bartolo, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto and Mongolian Foreign Minister Batmunkh...

Moscow: The Syrian air defence forces have downed most rockets fired by Israel from the Lebanese airspace at the central province of Homs, Al-Ikhbariya state-run broadcaster reported.About an hour earlier, the broadcaster reported that the Syrian air defense systems...

Beijing: Chinese government on Thursday refused the World Health Organization (WHO)'s proposal for a further probe in China to determine the origin of the corona virus.China's deputy director of the National Health Commission Zeng Yixin described the proposal for...

Moscow: Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina survived an assassination attempt, Sputnik quoted an Agence France-Presse report on Thursday, the report cited Madagascar's prosecutors.Authorities reportedly thwarted an assassination attempt on Rajoelina and detained several "foreigners and residents of Madagascar."According to the...