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Moscow: The West wants to control people who are in charge of Myanmar, Min Aung Hlaing, the commander-in-chief of the country's armed forces and chairman of the State Administration Council, told Sputnik in an interview.According to the military leader,...

Moscow: London's actions during the incident with the UK destroyer Defender could lead to an armed confrontation, Russian Ambassador to the United Kingdom Andrei Kelin said on Saturday."The nightmare is that they try to bolster a political stance with...

London: Britain's health secretary Matt Hancock resigned from his position on Saturday after he was found in breach of social distancing norms by kissing a colleague.In his resignation letter to the PM he said the government "owe it to...

Dushanbe: Tajikistan has put its armed forces stationed on the border with Afghanistan on high alert amid the deteriorating security situation in the neighboring country, the Defense Ministry told Sputnik on Friday."Troops of Tajikistan's Defense Ministry, stationed on the...

Washington: A US court on Friday sentenced former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin to 270 months in jail for the murder of George Floyd last year.In April, Chauvin was convicted of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter...

Moscow: Several military posts of the Malian Armed Forces in the village of Boni have been simultaneously attacked by militants, with six soldiers killed and one more injured, the military said.On Friday, in a separate incident, an explosives-laden car...

Beijing: China on Friday operationalised its first fully electrified bullet train in the remote Himalayan region of Tibet, connecting the provincial capital Lhasa and Nyingchi, a strategically located Tibetan border town close to Arunachal Pradesh, the PTI reported.The 435.5-km...

Washington: The US Senate passed legislation to establish a no-first-use policy in the United States in regards to nuclear weapons.The Senate on Thursday passed the No First use Act by unanimous consent.The bill is authored by Senator Elizabeth Warren...

Vienna: Russia may drop bombs on British warships if they test it again in the Black Sea, Konstantin Gavrilov, the Russian envoy to the Vienna talks on military security and arms control, said on Thursday.UK defense minister Ben Wallace...

Washington: The US government placed five Chinese companies on its Entity List that restricts their ability to receive exports, the Commerce Department said in a document."Specifically, the determined that Xinjiang GCL New Energy Material Technology, Co. Ltd; Xinjiang...